Practice Post #4 - Evaluating Art

Artist: van Gogh

Formal evaluation: van Gogh uses a big brush. there is a big "space" at main of the painting. 

Contextual evaluation: van Gogh intense spirituality and religious zeal, his generous, ardent, and sincere disposition, and especially, his violent and enigmatic illnesses and suicide at age thirty-seven have all contributed to powerful and often inaccurate myths that can obscure a clear understanding of the important painter.

Expressive evaluation: this paiting uses opposition colors to highlight representational. iconography
  un scale.