evelyn's artwork

The art work I choose was “Road with cypress and star”, by Vincent van Gogh. This painting is also known as county Road in Provence by Night. This particular painting is an 1890 oil- an canvas painting, as you look at the painting you can see little lines on how he used the oils to make this art work. Road with cypress star painting has a big tree with on one side what looks like to be the north star and the other side is what looks like to be is a crescent moon. The more details about this painting is looks like far away could be mountains and close up looks like a carriage and a small cottage and two people .

The colors use in this paining are more of a mix of cool colors like it’s a night sky. He uses light blue and works his way up getting the blue to get darker with a mix of white streaks. The blue really contrast with the tree in the middle because the tree is a dark green with mixes or tan streaks as used as in the ground that looks like dried out grass .

Everyone says that paintings have a meaning or are telling a story. When I look at this picture everything seems to be peaceful and calm. Like the people that are in the painting are just going on with their lives and not worried about a single thing. And while what’s going on above them is the “Road with cypress and star”.

I liked how you can tell how he painted this picture like all the streaks go upward and the way he did it like the oils never change directions. It all looks neat and organized and how he used details with different colors around the moon and the star to make it look like it is shimmering or a light at nights. Its hard to tell but in the background it look like it could be some mountains. He uses alloyt of more details in the sky.