Monet and van Gogh

Museum Paper No two artists can alone be considered responsible for the modern art movement, but both Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Claude Monet (1840-1926) led two very distinct groups of artists out of the world we know as classical art. Though their styles differ greatly, they are both equally responsible for helping to shape the direction painting would go over the following century. Monet and van Gogh both left us with prolific bodies of …

…landscape and never veered from his idea of capturing that fleeting moment. And neither did van Gogh, in his brief career, ever give up his vision of eloquently elaborating on the world he saw in order to take us into his world of almost child like, but mature and psychologically charged drama. Together with their contemporaries they represent the transitional or pivotal point at which the language and sentence structure of art would forever change.