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What better painting to begin with than something we all dream of..
~ The Starry Night

That's lovely GB!

I found some fabulous links on the painter
Vincent Van Gogh & his work:

I watched that movie! It was spectacular!
Thanks for the song.💖

The Starry Night (Dimensions73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (28.7 in × ��36 1��4 in)
 is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, The Starry Night is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture.

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted Décoration for the Yellow House that he prepared for the guestroom of his home in Arles, where Gauguin was supposed to stay. After Gauguin's departure, van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his Les XX in Bruxelles exhibit.

This is the most difficult piece I found to replicate. However, I've recently seen a few school kids do the same and have been suitably humbled.

The Postman
The size given (Toile de 15, c. 65 x 54 cm)

Van Gogh painted the family of postman Joseph Roulin in the winter of 1888, every member more than once.The family included Joseph Roulin, the postman; his wife, Augustine; and their three children. Van Gogh described the family as "really French, even if they look like Russians." Over the course of just a few weeks, he painted Augustine and the children several times. The reason for multiple works was partly so that the Roulins could have a painting of each family member, so that with these pictures and others, their bedroom became a virtual "museum of modern art." The family's consent to modeling for van Gogh also gave him the opportunity to create more portraits, which was both meaningful and inspirational to van Gogh.

Van Gogh used colour for dramatic effect. Each family member's clothes are done in bold primary colours and van Gogh used contrasting colours in the background to intensify the impact of the work.

Vincent and me

Here's the movie that will make you love him too

There is another movie called "At Eternity's Gate" which is also very interesting.
At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn(/ˈrɛmbrænt, -brɑːnt/;[2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin] (listen); 15 July 1606[1] �� 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media,[3] he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.[4]Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting), although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres. Like many artists of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jan Vermeer of Delft, Rembrandt was also an avid art collector and dealer.

Pallas Athene is a c. 1655 oil on canvas painting by Rembrandt, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

A print of Pallas Athene in the 1659 parade for the marriage of Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau to John George II of Anhalt-Dessau is similar in pose and costume to the painting. The goddess was played by the artist's son Titus van Rijn, which has led to the theory that he based it on Titus' appearance in the parade. Catherine II of Russia bought the painting from count Baudouin in Paris in 1781 via Melchior Grimm. She then gave it to her lover Alexander Lanskoy and it was later transferred to the Hermitage Museum. On 27 June 1930 it was bought by its present owner via Antikvariat, an art dealer.

Oscar-Claude Monet (/moʊˈneɪ/; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 �� 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.[1][2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.
Claude Monet

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What better painting to begin with than something we all dream of..
~ The Starry Night"
Saw the 'Sunflowers' & 'Starry Nights' for real today @TATE Britain. Amazed by the sheer brilliance of colours. A 20 year old dream fulfilled😊
The artist's technique seemed to have undergone a sea-change in the years he was confined at the asylum. He became non-conformist, experimenting with brighter colours, to give the world his masterpieces.

Wow! Lucky you. I do intend to visit Amsterdam for the full collection some day.
His brush strokes are unique. Unlike other artists he is non-conformist as you say. Perhaps his illness had something to do with the change? One does become more perceptive when other faculties fail.

You do have a point there girls.
Maybe this article would help.

Here are a few clicks of the Van Goghs that I saw yesterday..

Observe the difference in the sketch and oil canvas of the sorrowing man. The lines seems to be more curvy and less accurate. It's almost like they were the creation of two different people.

Ooh! Nice. 👌 Thanks.

Water lilies by Claude Monet

Watch Monalisa Smile

Pablo Picasso

Banksy

Here is an article about the Banksy mural.

More on Banksy

Oh boy! That man had some radical ideas!

He does!

Some more on him

Long Lost Italian Masterpiece Worth Millions Found Hanging in French Woman’s Kitchen

Wow! I'm gonna have a look at all the paintings hanging in my home more minutely now!

A new Banksy installation has appeared in London, featuring the stab-proof vest worn by British grime superstar Stormzy during his headline set at the Glastonbury festival

Is he at it again??

Seems so Alex. I'm sure it must be fascinating to live around the area, wondering where the next one is going to appear.

I'm sure it is

Tourist Photo of Cloudy Belgian Sky Holds Stunning Similarity to Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night��

More on Banksy

The mystery of the missing Leonardo: where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus?

Where is Jesus indeed!

More on Starry nights

Rembrandt: Newly discovered work to go on display

Wow! How many more such hidden gems will they reveal?

Sandra wrote: "Wow! How many more such hidden gems will they reveal?"

Seriously, this could easily be debatable.
But Sotheby's has verified the claim.

This bridge is also an art museum

The “Lost�� Cimabue In The Kitchen: How A Forgotten Treasure Brought $25 Million At Auction In France

Private passions: the sexual secrets hidden in the world’s greatest art

Hey GB! Now you're the one not censoring! 😏