Please look at this painting and ..?

Question

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Please look at the painting above and tell me what you can see in this artwork and whether you like it or not and why. It's a Van Gogh oil painting made in June 1888, called Fishing Boats on the Beach. Am writing a report about it, so would need a few opinion ideas.

Answer 1

I like this painting. It looks cartoonish to me. I like it because it is peaceful and tranquil. The ships look like toy ships rather than real boats. I like the detail in the waves rushing against the shore.

Good luck on your report and may God bless your day!

Answer 2

it looks like van gogh used depth in his painting to make it 3 dimensional.    

it also looks like he used a lot of detail in the painting.

i actually like it very much. i like it because of the amount of depth and detail in the painting.

good luck on your report : )

Answer 3

It is a dynamic painting with lots of movement.

look at the lines. The direction of the boats and the boats in relation to one another. and the colors are so cool and balanced. I can feel the motion of the seen conveyed through the lines and the smell and feel of the ocean by the colors. It is a good painting, but then again i love all of his work .

when you look at a painting to write about it look at the colors, and where they are in relation to eachother.

are the colors clashing?

working well together?

are they cool? warm? hot?

do you feel some thing from the colors? Sadness? happiness? confusion?

Look at the "lines" and the directions they are going in.

like the line of the sand and sea, the lines the boats make. the lines on the boats themselves. where are they pointing? are the diginal? up? down? vertical? horonizontal?

These are going up. taking you out to sea with the boats.

Now what are the objects? the symbols, what do they mean? what are they? do they make you feel something? what?

Remember when you write about art you dont have to do a history lession if you dont want to. a bit about the artist and the time is fine, but art works life is to tell you something all by its self, out of context as well as in context(its time period).

Take i out of context and tell us what you see, not what we can read in a history book.

Answer 4

the brite colors of the boats on the beach first captures your eyes and as you follow the mast of the boats on the beach they seem to be pointing at the boats going out to sea.the water looks so real with the blending of the thee background colors .

Answer 5

I am worried by the fact that you are doing this report and basing it on what other people think about the painting.  What matters is what you think because that is what art is all about.  A painting should make you react;  it should make you think.  What you write is all about what you see; what it does for you: what it makes you feel: the colours: the shapes: the way in which the image is put together: why you think it was painted in this way - and so on.  Let the painting talk to you and forget what others think.  It will be telling them something totally different.

Answer 6

find out exactly what was going on his life at the exact time of the painting...

and link it back to the painting.

van gogh had one hectik life.... (very different, and sad...)

the painting is ment to tell what was going on the artists life...

but you can cheat and do it the other way... it will be very relevant.

Answer 7

One of the better Van Goghs. Mostly because it is something besides the color splotches he called art... Seriously, I like the fact that what is up front the first boat is detailed and as the painting nears the horizon, it is less detailed. Also if you notice all of the color and brightness being in the foreground of this painting, drawing you into the front the leading the eye to the background through duller more mute paint tones. Hope it helps, Good Luck!

Answer 8

Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh completed Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1888, after spending time sketching on the shore of the Mediterranean fishing village.

Vincent van Gogh's Fishing Boats on the Beach

at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is an oil on canvas

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http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/v...

(25-1/2x32 inches) that is housed in the

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

There is a high level of control in van Gogh's composition, with its nearly even division of land and sky and the boats positioned to break through the division and unite the separate zones. Even the color is controlled, and individual objects are bound within black contour lines.

my own opinion about this painting is that it first seem loney- a them that is through-out vg's work

There are no people- just a coupla fishermen in some boats-  are the fishermen going out or coming in...is the sea too rough, no.... maybe they have caught all the fish?

also it is that yellow color of the beach-  sulphuric- and no one wants to be around sulphur- it stinks- sometimes the land near oceans smell of seaweed and rotting things.

Also, the overlapping gives a dimension,a depth without a lot of shadowing.

The sky is pale and the boats in the distance are pale and small.

He used a primary color scheme.red,blue, yellow

Answer 9

I think it is stunning. It really looks like a windy day and the sea looks so real. It is also very striking considering the period it came from and the slightly distorted perspective is typical of his work.  

Answer 10

Bright complementary colors

a lot of depth

even amount of ships

In general, balanced painting

Answer 11

Those don't really look like boats do they? Van Gogh was one of those artists that helped establish that art didn't have to look exactly like a photograph. He helped to realize that art held power in color and the expression of brushwork. See if you can find what famous artists were around at the time and you will see they are all trying to break away from a realistic style of painting. Start with Impressionism and work your way to Van Gogh. You will see that this manner of painting is popular within his circle.