Van Gogh art

Vincent Willem Van Gogh, such a well known and respected artist now that he's dead. In french class we are doing a project on impressionist and post impressionist painters. Van Gogh is one such painter. We are also required to make a painting that somehow reflects their specific style of painting. so I was thinking I would be able to do a self portrait in a Van gogh style like this painting to the left. my hope is that it will have the same feel, in terms of texture and painting technique, but be a picture of myself. and in order to associate it with my concentration I was thinking I would make my hair into food again. just an Idea.

Artist's Statement

My Concentration focuses on exploring the relationship between people and food. It displays how food effects people and what roles food plays in the lives of people. A key aspect of this concentration is texture, and using actual foods to create a unique depth.

It's BS but it sounds nice

Pieces of Pictures

The Donut hand I actually started over winter vacation, but did not actually finish until recently. I really like texture and because my concentration is focused around food and people, specifically women and pastries, I thought about doing something like this. I was intending to do something like the sistine by Michelangelo where god almost touches man. I dont think that that completely came across in this painting, but that is what i was trying to do.

For this one I wanted to actually use a face in an attempt to display greed in some way. and i did not know how to exaclty display that so i decided to start with a face in the center flowing from a hand. the face is to show all of the greed that people feel for certain items, such as donuts.there is a light in the background to highlight the greed and to show the darkness, but the darkness is still surrounded by light.

dearth?

so... didn't have a whole lotta time this weekend to do anything artistic. well i mean in terms of me actually painting something considering I left at 12:30 on friday and got home oh... 15 minutes ago. But i did get to go to canada and that was really cool. alot of the stuff up in canada is focusing on the first people and their art, because that is what the opening ceremonies at the olympics wanted to focus on too. and i was looking at all of these gorgeous totem poles and thinking about that. and although it wouldn't be part of my concentration what if i did something american, but truly native american. or maybe not that, but something that would just break it down and get to the core of art. like what exactly makes something art? i donno, just get rid of the 12 principles and see what is left. and then maybe for something else i can combine all of the 12 principles and see what happens. but i wonder what is left of art if you take away all of the things that make art? would it just be white? would there still be art without rules? art is not supposed to have rules but it does in fact art is probably one of the only things that has to have rules to exist. but what if you took away all of the rules then what? can you take away all of the rules? how? hmm.... i think i am going crazy. *sigh* and i still have a chem lab to finish. i wish i could do art instead.
GO CANADA! eh?