Van Gogh was one of the most important Post-Impressionist artists in history. He was an adventurous person who went through many styles of art but developed a style that involved emotion. He went away from realism and created his famous oil painting Starry Night. His philosophy is very down to earth when it came to painting despite his mental issues. I want to create a poem for a charter school and a drawing for college students to understand his concepts from looking at Post-Impressionist content.

Every person has emotion therefore have creativity. Everyone is capable of expressing their emotion and therefore are an artist. Emotion can be subtle or explosive just as art can be calculated or spontaneous. Our society distracts the artists in us with the constant school work or career. Everyone should draw, sketch or paint once in a while to express the way they feel. The art created gives many a better understanding of ourselves and the way we interact with the world.

With a visual, you can literally look at your feelings or at least an interpretation or representation of them. Looking at visuals help us understand the value and magnitude of things. For example, graphics on stocks and investments in the stock market generally tell people how the company is doing at that moment in time whether they are making profit or not. Art goes deeper as it is limitless in what can be composed. When most artists draw something, it is something intimate and the image will reflect what they are thinking. Their expression can be interpreted or understood in the real world as messages and visual language like 0’s and 1’s are the way a computer communicates.

This form of expression is one of the most free ways to communicate because anything is possible and no one can take it away from them. It is something they have forever. The vision and art form is something everyone possess. It’s only a matter of developing and expressing.