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Year 1 knowledge organiser- Vincent Van Gogh

Key facts Key Vocabulary

The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is a French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889 Brush stroke

a mark made by a paintbrush drawn across a surface

It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941.

Canvas A piece of cloth that’s stretched over a wooden frame.

He painted it with ultramarine and cobalt blue and for the stars and the Moon Van Gogh used Indian yellow together with zinc yellow.

Impasto Impasto is used to describe a painting technique where paint (usually oil) is laid on so thickly that the texture of brush strokes are clearly visible.

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