{"id":884,"date":"2012-01-08T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=884"},"modified":"2012-01-08T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:34:23","slug":"van-gogh-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh (Shape Motifs, Integration and Rhythm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_885\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-1889-48-x-62-cm-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-885\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-885\" title=\"Vincent Van Gogh - Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves - 1889 - 48 x 62 cm -reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-1889-48-x-62-cm-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-1889-48-x-62-cm-reduced.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-1889-48-x-62-cm-reduced-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-1889-48-x-62-cm-reduced-386x300.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Van Gogh - Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves - 1889 - 48 x 62 cm -oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the primary considerations in composition is shapes, and the awareness of not\u00a0 disrupting\u00a0 the shapes with detail and modelling.\u00a0 This can be quite elusive as most painters want to convey their attention to detail, which unfortunately can muddle the foundation of a composition.\u00a0 And when artists put information before harmony and rhythm, they may sense disappointment with the results.\u00a0 Van Gogh has shown us how beautifully this can be avoided in this wonderful still life.<\/p>\n<p>The composition is comprised of four<em> &#8220;oval&#8221;<\/em> shapes on two flat horizontal shapes.\u00a0 He did not clutter the foreground and background with superfluous detail.<\/p>\n<p>How Van Gogh harmonized the fruit with the shape of the basket is masterfully painted.\u00a0 If you blur your eyes you can feel the shape!\u00a0 He was also very careful with the darker shapes as well, not only with their shapes, but also with very sophisticated integration.<\/p>\n<p>We see this with the branch connecting with the left of the basket, the finger of the glove, and branches at the right.\u00a0 Note how the branch at the right pointing upword integrates with the dark oval at the top left, and how the gloves connect to the the one at the right.\u00a0 Your eye follows the top glove then rhythmically connects to the bottom of the branch at the right.<\/p>\n<p>There is an integrating rhythm in this painting that always excites me for it&#8217;s sophistication.\u00a0 The three stripes on the glove not only integrate with the basket with colour but also with a beautiful note in the basket, the small dark lines connecting an orange and a lemon. (see detail)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-detail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-889\" title=\"Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves-detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Still-Life-of-Oranges-and-Lemons-with-Blue-Gloves-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is very sophisticated!\u00a0 And there is more for you to discover. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary considerations in composition is shapes, and the awareness of not\u00a0 disrupting\u00a0 the shapes with detail and modelling.\u00a0 This can be quite elusive as most painters want to convey their attention to detail, which unfortunately can muddle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,4,7,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}