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    1. The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh depicts a dimly lit café with few patrons inside. Bright colors like yellow and green are used to portray the artificial light inside the café, contrasting with the dark blue night seen outside the windows. 2. Starry Night Over the Rhone also by van Gogh shows the night sky over the Rhone River in Arles, France. The swirling sky is painted with vivid blues and the landscape features are blurred, conveying a sense of movement and drama in the night scene. 3. Both paintings use expressive brushwork and bright, unnatural colors to portray a nighttime scene and convey van Gogh's emotional state at the time he painted them

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    1. The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh depicts a dimly lit café with few patrons inside. Bright colors like yellow and green are used to portray the artificial light inside the café, contrasting with the dark blue night seen outside the windows. 2. Starry Night Over the Rhone also by van Gogh shows the night sky over the Rhone River in Arles, France. The swirling sky is painted with vivid blues and the landscape features are blurred, conveying a sense of movement and drama in the night scene. 3. Both paintings use expressive brushwork and bright, unnatural colors to portray a nighttime scene and convey van Gogh's emotional state at the time he painted them

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    1. The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh depicts a dimly lit café with few patrons inside. Bright colors like yellow and green are used to portray the artificial light inside the café, contrasting with the dark blue night seen outside the windows. 2. Starry Night Over the Rhone also by van Gogh shows the night sky over the Rhone River in Arles, France. The swirling sky is painted with vivid blues and the landscape features are blurred, conveying a sense of movement and drama in the night scene. 3. Both paintings use expressive brushwork and bright, unnatural colors to portray a nighttime scene and convey van Gogh's emotional state at the time he painted them

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    SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL OF KALLIMASIA, CHIOS, GREECE

    SUBJECT: ENGLISH
    TEACHER: M.P.
    DESCRIBING A PAINTING

    Friend in Need, Dogs Playing Poker series, C.M. Coolidge, Oil on Canvas, 1903

    Exercise 1: Complete the text with the words from the box:
    artist, background, circular, vertical, geometric, canvas, dogs, bravery, postures, campaign,
    brightly, shades, frame corner, foreground, focal, bottom, scene

    Description
    A Friend in Need is an iconic and humorous oil on 1) ______________ kitsch painting by
    Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, an American 2) _________________. It was commissioned in 1903 by an
    advertising company called Brown & Bigelow as part of a 3) ______________ to promote cigars. It
    portrays a variety of life-size humanised 4) _____________ playing poker while smoking cigars and
    drinking beer using real glasses and pipes just like men or friends would do.
    The 5) ________________ green poker table, where the main action takes place, is the 6)
    ________________ point of the painting. It stands at the centre of the sparsely-furnished room and it is 7)
    _____________ lit by an overhead lamp whose cover draws our attention through its unusual 8)
    ___________________ shape and deep red colour. This contrasts with the dull 9)
    _____________________ which remains in the dark because nothing much is happening there.
    The dogs have real proportions and they fill most of the 10) ________________ half of the
    picture. The collier on the left and the St Bernard on the right actually 11) __________the scene. Their
    facial expressions and body 12) ______________ are reminiscent of human ones, emphasised by the
    collier who is sitting crossing with crossed legs in the bottom left-hand 13) ___________________. It
    seems as if these animals have been elevated to the status of human beings and this feeling is heightened
    by the 14) ___________________ lines in the chairs, elongated bottles and bodies, picture frame, door
    and clock. The soft 15) ________________ of colour, the circular lines of the poker table and the wood
    add a soft and homely touch to the 16) ________________.
    The 17) ____________ reveals what is at stake in the scene. The small white bulldog is
    surreptitiously handing an ace card to the tanned bulldog just next to him in act of pure deceit and 18)
    ______________.
    SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL OF KALLIMASIA, CHIOS, GREECE
    SUBJECT: ENGLISH
    TEACHER: M.P.

    Exercise 2: Define the components, elements and principles of art that correspond to the underlined
    phrases.
    Village Chores, Jane Wanjeri, Acrylic on Canvas, 2013 (fineartamerica.com)

    Village Chores is an acrylic on canvas (1) ___________________painting by Kenyan female


    artist, Jane Wanjeri. It vividly depicts an everyday life scene in a village in Africa (2)
    _________________________ where hard-working women and children are doing their chores during
    daytime. The intense and happy colours such as green, pink, red, orange and blue (3) ________________ gives
    us the impression of a joyous family unit.
    The focal point of the painting is the three-stone cooking fire (4) ________________ — this is
    where communal life revolves. As a matter of fact, in the foreground (5) ______________, we can see two
    healthy chickens that are a precious source of food in this part of the world. They are symmetrically framed by
    the two boys that are carrying a heavy container of water on the right and the two women that are pounding
    maize on the left (6) ________________. All the people are deeply focused on the task at hand. The solid
    looking black cooking pot in the bottom left-hand corner, the cooking pot on the fire and the container form a
    triangular shape , (7) __________ emphasising the importance of these food preparation tools or utensils . (8)

    ______________
    The artist manages to portray a joyous and serene scene even though the work that is being done is
    backbreaking as particularly evidenced by the old woman who is carrying a huge stack of wood on the far left.
    There are many elements to soften the drudgery: the bright light from the sun; the stunning backdrop
    composed of luscious greenery; the two solidly built huts where the family can retire to at the end of the day;
    the towering mountain that brings them comfort and gives a sense of safety in the clear absence of men. (9)
    _____________________
    In my opinion, the artist wanted to show a positive aspect of African village life in this painting.
    The figures are well-dressed in clean, beautiful and colourful clothes. The strong women in the foreground
    take very good care of themselves as their hair is neatly done even though they lack shoes and it must be hard
    for them and the barefoot children to walk on the visibly pebbly ground. They do not seem to experience a
    period of famine as the presence of poultry and maize in the mortar proves.
    Besides, they seem to live harmoniously and in symbiosis and this is highlighted by the fact that
    objects and living things are presented in pairs: two huts, two pots, two food-preparation tools, two pestles,
    two chickens, two boys and two women. (10) ____________ The lonely woman in the background with a
    SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL OF KALLIMASIA, CHIOS, GREECE
    SUBJECT: ENGLISH
    TEACHER: M.P.
    hunched back, who seems to leave the painting, is a reminder of how life can be hard and defeating. Overall,
    the people in the painting seem to do their grueling work with stoicism and dignity and leave a positive and
    inspirational influence on the viewer.

    TASK: Describe Vincent van Gogh’s The Night Café or Starry Night over the Rhone.

    Sources:
    https://learnenglishwithafrica.com/english-vocabulary-describing-pictures-lesson-2-how-to-describe-a-
    painting-thoroughly/
    https://www.vincentvangogh.org/the-night-cafe.jsp
    https://www.vincentvangogh.org/starry-night-over-the-rhone.jsp

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