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Lance Armstrong

2007-10-01T22:00:40Z

Hunter: ref fix

'''Lance Armstrong''' is a famous bicyclist and the seven-time winner of the [[Tour-de-France]].Armstong is also an open atheist. <ref>http://freethoughtguy.com/2005/07/lance-armstrong-american-atheist.html</ref> <ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/702/000030612/</ref>

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Lance Armstrong

2007-10-01T21:59:00Z

Hunter:

'''Lance Armstrong''' is a famous bicyclist and the seven-time winner of the [[Tour-de-France]].Armstong is also an open atheist. <ref> http://freethoughtguy.com/2005/07/lance-armstrong-american-atheist.html <ref>

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Chromatics

2007-10-01T21:33:59Z

Hunter: Added tetrachromats

'''Chromatics''' is the science of color. [[Isaac Newton]] showed that white light is composed of many different colors. This can be seen with a [[prism]]; a [[rainbow]] exploits the prismatic quality of raindrops.

Newton also showed that "the colors we observe are the result of how objects interact with the incident, already-colored light, not the result of objects generating the color." <ref>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Isaac_Newton#Optics</ref>

Most people are trichromats, meaning their eyes have photorecptors for [[red]], [[blue]] and [[yellow]], but 2-3% of women (so far it has been seen in women only) are tetrachromatic. In addition to the primary colors they have another type of cone in between the red and green. Normally trichromatic people can differentiate about one million colors. Tetrachromats can differentiate upwards of 100 millions colors.<ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06256/721190-114.stm]</ref>
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Talk:Vincent van Gogh

2007-09-30T03:50:24Z

Hunter: VvG

I do not know who added the comment in the body of the article but that is correct, it should be '''Vincent van Gogh'''. [[User:Hunter|Hunter]] 23:50, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

Vincent van Gogh

2007-09-30T03:44:46Z

Hunter: Added technique commentary

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[[Image:Van Gogh.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vincent van Gogh]]
'''Vincent Willem van Gogh''' (Groot-Zundert, [[Holland]] 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, [[France]] 1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. In Paris he met [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], and [[Paul Gauguin]], the latter shared living quarters with van Gogh in Arles for a scant nine weeks until the quarrels between the two impetuous painters spelled the end of their close collaboration.

{{cquote|''I can’t change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture''}}

Van Gogh is noted for his thick applications of paint, his "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" is quite notable for his use of paint straight from the tube with minor brush work to smooth the edges of the dollops of medium. More brilliant still was the use of this technique to create texture in a supposedly two dimensional medium, so that the paintings were part painting and part sculpture as in "[http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm Starry Night]".
== Works ==

The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, genre paintings of which the most famous is ''"[http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Van_Gogh_The_Potato-Eaters.jpg The Potato Eaters]".'' ''View of Paris from Montmartre, Paris Seen from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic, Terrace of the Cafè "La Guinguuette"'' and others are based on a typical [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] interpretation. Vincent van Gogh painted several pictures using the techniques of [[Pointillism]], e. g. The ''Vase with Daisies and Anemones.'' Among his last works are religious works after Delacroix, ''Pietà'' and ''Good Samaritan'', the masterpiece ''The Church in Auvers'', multiple landscapes and portraits.

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Image:Van Gogh Montmartre Paris.jpg|"Montmartre Paris"
Image:Van Gogh Paris Seen from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic.jpg|"Paris Seen from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic"
Image:Van Gogh The Caravans, Gypsy Camp near Arles.jpg|"The Caravans, Gypsy Camp near Arles"
Image:Van Gogh The All-Knight Café at Arles.jpg|"The All-Knight Café at Arles"
Image:Van Gogh Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg|"Le Moulin de la Galette"
Image:Van Gogh Still Life with Mackerels, Lemons and Tomatoes.jpg|"Still Life with Mackerels, Lemons and Tomatoes"
Image:Van Gogh Vase with Daisies and Anemones.jpg|"Vase with Daisies and Anemones"
Image:Van Gogh The Church in Auvers.jpg|"The Church in Auvers"
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== See also ==

*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
*[[Painting Schools]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_158.html Vincent van Gogh] Guggenheim Collection.
*[http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/bio.htm Vincent van Gogh: Biography] Van Gogh Gallery.

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American Gothic

2007-09-29T00:57:34Z

Hunter: added (additional) interpetation and ref

'''American Gothic''' is a painting by American [[artist]] [[Grant Wood]]. The subjects in the painting are a gaunt looking farmer and his adult unmarried daughter. The man holds a pitchfork and both wear severe expressions. The painting was controversial when it was first exhibited in 1930. The Art Institute of Chicago awarded the painting a prize of $300 dollars.

==Controversy==
American Gothic remains one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. It is a primary example of Regionalism, a movement that aggressively opposed European [[abstract art]], preferring depictions of rural American subjects rendered in a [[representational style]]. The painting has become part of American popular culture, and the couple has been the subject of endless [[parody|parodies]]. Some believe that Wood used this painting to [[satire|satirize]] the narrow-mindedness and repression that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture, an accusation Wood denied. The painting is thought by most to be a glorification of the moral virtue of rural America.<ref>[http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_5.shtml#]</ref>

The young woman, (modeled by the artist's sister,) looks forlornly over the pitchfork her father holds. Her only adornment is that of a cameo pin (perhaps handworked [[scrimshaw]] of her mother? The pitchfork motif is mirrored by the farmer's overalls and shirt, perhaps to intone that the more formidable weapon lies above the neck of it's owner. The gothic styled window at the apex of the house gives character both to the homestead and the work itself and lends itself easily to the title.

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