Artwork: The Starry Night
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Date the artwork was made: June 1889
Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 74 cm x 92 cm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art
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The paint that was used in the painting which is The Starry Night was an oil painting. Oil painting is the kind of painting that takes time when it comes to drying the artwork. This painting is not a disadvantage because it can improve your painting moderately. The artist can have a chance to change the details of his/her artwork if he wants because most of the oil paints don’t spread around the canvas and it blends naturally. Oil painting was known to be the most unique of the painting techniques in the history of art. Many famous poets and artists used the oil painting technique like Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh.
One of the oil painting technique is scumbling. It is to put a small amount of paint on your canvas. The result of the texture is beautiful and it is mostly used for a smooth atmosphere of a painting.
Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece which is “The Starry Night” was an Impasto oil technique. This technique is applying a big amount of paint on the canvas to make it thick which makes the brush strokes visible. When it dries, it has a texture that makes the painting looked like it expresses itself by popping the paint out and dried. The details of the paint are also clear which makes it captivating to look at. That was the effect of Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” to a lot of people that have seen his artwork
The Impasto oil technique is the exact opposite of the scumbling oil technique. Scumbling is recommended for a smooth-paced artwork while Impasto was for the art of heavy and thick expressionism. Van Gogh was known for using an Impasto technique. Most of his paintings were an Impasto technique such as “Wheatfield with Crows”, “Almond Blossoms”, “Sunflowers”, and many more.
The Impasto technique makes me understand the deeper purpose of the painting because the texture speaks for itself. The feeling of the painting expresses more because of the popped out details and the thick atmosphere had an effect on the artworks.
