Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Akira Kurosawa, Film Director
Sanshiro Sugata (Judo Saga), 1943Rashomon, 1950Ikiru, 1952Seven Samurai, 1954The Throne of Blood, 1957Yojimbo, 1961Ran, 1985Dreams, (Yume) 1990Dreams, 1990Eight DreamsPsychoanalyticalVincent Van Gogh(1853-1960)Post-Impressionistic Painter
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh, Self portrait, 1889
Vincent Van Gogh Wheat Field with Crows, 1890
Wheatfield with CrowsWheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is commonly stated that this was van Goghs last painting.
Wheat Field with Crows, made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field. A sense of isolation is heightened by a central path leading nowhere and by the uncertain direction of flight of the crows. The wind-swept wheat field fills two thirds of the canvas. Jules Michelet, one of van Gogh's favorite authors, wrote of the crows: They interest themselves in everything, and observe everything. The ancients, who lived far more completely than ourselves in and with nature, found it no small profit to follow, in a hundred obscure things where human experience as yet affords no light, the directions of so prudent and sage a bird.Wheatfield with crowsKathleen Erickson finds the painting as expressing both sorrow and a sense of his life coming to an end. The crows are used by van Gogh as a symbol of death and rebirth, or of resurrection. The road, in contrasting colors of red and green, is said by Erickson to be a metaphor for a sermon he gave based on Bunyans Pilgrims Progress where the pilgrim is sorrowful that the road is so long, yet rejoices because the Eternal City waits at the journeys end.Vincent Van GoghSunflowers, 1890
Vincent Van Gogh, The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing
Vincent Van Gogh, Van goghs Chair, 1888
Starry night, 1889
Vincent Van Gogh, flowering garden with path 1888
Vincents Bedroom in Arles, 1889
The Large Plane trees, 1889
