Arts blog F200X

  A Study for "Worn Out"   Description: The work was created by the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh during November 1882 and is believed to be one of Van Goghs Hague drawings, but this is the first time it has been displayed in a public museum - This particular piece of art is now displayed in Amsterdam, before it was owned by a private collector, but now he has decided to loan out the piece until January 2022. The work depicts a sad elderly man sitting on a chair and is drawn on thick watercolor paper with a pencil, according to ArtNews.com Analysis: The whole mood of the drawing is pretty grim and sad, it seems like the Dutch master was trying to give the certain impression on how workers after hardships feel, but it should be noted that some of Van Gogh's works are in a similar technique and also using watercolors. The analysis of the colors is the following, he uses a pencil, which are gray and different tones of it, by making the lines thicker and slimmer. It is very w...

 Hi, My name is Roberts Kalkis (Kaļķis:Latvian), I am from Riga, which is the capital city of a small country located on the Eastern Shore of the Baltic sea - Latvia. We Latvians are proud and most of us have a great education, so art is a common topic people talk about. If you ever go to Riga there is a huge Arts museum full of many different types of art - sculptures, paintings and some abstract art. I am a senior student at University of Alaska Fairbanks and chose it mainly because of the possibility to play hockey and get a great education at the same time. I am really excited to learn new things and study parts of art that I might not be familiar with, so I would have better conversations for back home.  "The Kiss" -Gustav Klimt This is by far my favorite painting, mostly because I grew up looking at it in my parents bedroom, they had a copy of it framed as a painting. Also recently saw that a really important person in my life had a notebook, with "The Kiss" o...