Bedroom at Arles
When I first looked at this painting, I thought to myself, "It's boring. It's boring to look at. Why paint a picture of an empty bedroom?" However, once I started looking at all the elements, my mind changed. Van Gogh's use of line really gives depth and character to the piece. The first line that caught my eye was the line outlining the bottom of the bed. The strong stroke really gives you a sense of distance between the bottom of the frame and the floor. Had it been a thin line like those to depict the floorboards, it would look like the bed was sitting directly on the floor. His use of brush strokes and the thickness of them vary immensely in the painting to create depth. The strong strokes of the chair in the lower left hand corner really gives you a sense that the chair is in the foreground as opposed to the chair next to the head of the bed. That chair, painted with thinner lines tells you the chair is further back. The use of color originally struck me as bland. The use of reds and oranges overwhelmed me to the point where I was trying to focus on other colors in the painting. I think that is a point of the painting. I think Van Gogh wanted the viewer to look around. I also think that Van Gogh wanted to use these partic
As I mentioned before, the contrast of the blue wall against the colors of the floor and furniture contribute to this. His use of texture gives me a sense that I can walk right into this room. Van Gogh's use of form once again creates the depth needed for the painting. The closeness of the furniture signifies that. Van Gogh's use of line provides movement in this picture. This is a small room and he painted exactly what he saw. The contrast in this painting is again provided by the color. I also like the strong hue of the table. When Van Gogh painted this bedroom, I honestly believe that he did not have much to work with regarding space. He used perspective to create form and it worked well. The use of reds and oranges dominate the foreground with the frame of the bed, the bed sheet and the chair in the lower left corner. I think the floorboards are of multiple layers of paint, as to create the tones of the wood. It pulls you directly to the center of the painting. Had the wall been green, brown, red or black, there would not be a great depth. I think that the bed frame, however, is just a single layer of paint, almost thin in nature.
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