Starry Night
St rring Vincent van Gogh
& Clive Bell
Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait
Oil on canvas
Paris: 1887
Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
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Vincent van Gogh
(1853-1890)
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Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Oil on canvas
Arles, 1889
Courtauld Institute Galleries
London, UK
Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
Oil on canvas
Saint-Rémy, France: 1889
The Museum of Modern Art
Ney York, NY, USA
Clive Bell (1881-1964) / Formalism
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Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
Oil on canvas
Saint-Rémy, France: 1889
The Museum of Modern Art
Ney York, NY, USA
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Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
Oil on canvas
Saint-Rémy, France: 1889
The Museum of Modern Art
Ney York, NY, USA
Questions
Does an aesthetic examination of Starry Night require a neoformalist interpretation rather than a formalist interpretation?
Are both insufficient?
What pitfalls do you see in formalism, especially as it applies
to Starry Night?
How can we reconcile the apparent formal and seemingly
intertwined representational aspects of Starry Night?
Doe formalism (or neo-formalism) help us progress toward a
definition of art? Is formalism alone sufficient?
Bibliography
Bell, Clive. “The Project Gutenberg EBook, Art, by Clive Bell.” Gutenberg.com: The Leading
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26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.gutenberg.com/>.
Trachtman, Paul. "Van Gogh's Night Visions." Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, Jan.
2009. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/NightVisions.html?c=y&page=3>.
"Vincent Van Gogh: The Paintings (Starry Night)." Vincent: The Paintings. N.p., n.d. Web. 26
Nov. 2012. <http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm>.
"Vincent Van Gogh." Vincent Van Gogh Gallery. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://
www.vangoghgallery.com/>.