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Vincent Van Gogh




 * Artist's full name is Vincent Willem Van Gogh
 * Date of Birth: March 30th 1853
 * Art Period: Expressionism is a movement in the arts during the early part of the 20th century that involved the artist's inner experiences. The artists showed their inner experiences by painting the pictures distorted or altered ,and they painted the landmarks with violent colors and exaggerated lines to their emotions.
 * Date of Painting: The Room At Arles was painted in 1888
 * The country where he worked was Paris and he was born in Grootzundert, Holland
 * The story behind the painting is he decided to paint his own bedroom with simple furniture and his own paintings
 * A fun fact about Van Gogh is he made 900 paintings in ten years
 * I chose this art piece for my project because I thought it will be interesting to be sleeping in the bed
 * The steps I took to blend myself into the painting was I traced myself into the painting and pulled the red covers towards my face

Information from: http://favourite-paintings.blogspot.com/2011/11/vincent-van-gogh-yellow-house.html http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/bio.html http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=2796 http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm