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Van Gogh IRISES at ST. REMY Acrylic Painting Kit 12 x 16
Post Impressionist art kit inspired by the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh – 12×16. Famous Art Kits are designed so that ANYONE can paint beautiful pictures inspired by famous artists- you will be amazed at the results even if you have no art background. Our kits are NOT PAINT BY NUMBER kits- but, the finished painting looks just like our advertising pictures. In all of our kits the accurate drawing of the scene is all done for you on a genuine artist’s CANVAS, and then tack mounted onto a piece of art board to make them ready for your frame. The acrylic paints and a quality artist brush are provided. Most of the acrylic colors are premixed- there is minimal color mixing. The instructions are comprehensive, yet easy to follow. There are NO NUMBERS on the preprinted canvas, instead there are color pictures showing each step of the painting. You will build your painting from the ground up, one color at a time. You will be a Post Impressionist! Your finished painting will look just like the advertising picture- not like a paint by number. These kits can be painted by beginners if they can follow directions and control a brush and contain everything you need to finish the painting successfully. You will be actually learning to paint with acrylics. Irises at Saint-Remy, 1889, depict the garden of the hospital where Van Gogh was a recuperating, and was painted a few months before he died. The work was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints containing strong outlines. Although Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime, IRISES was sold for $49 million in 1987. Our kits are made in the USA by artists for artists! What our customers are saying: The painting from Famous Arts Kits made me feel like a true professional artist. There are detailed instructions and the picture is outlined, so it’s virtually impossible to mess up. The end result was magnificent!
Starry Night, Art Poster by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundest, Holland. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings. In 1886 he went to Paris and inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin. He began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion. He went south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting his own ear off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself “for the good of all.” During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh’s finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh’s inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
