{"id":97,"date":"2017-01-25T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:34:03","slug":"starry-night-illustration-vs-illumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/starry-night-illustration-vs-illumination\/","title":{"rendered":"Starry Night: Illustration vs. Illumination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between an illustration and an illumination is subtle. An artist&#8217;s illustration is their interpretation and representation of something. In the following example, the original artist, Vincent van Gogh, illustrated a scene where he was living. When creating the painting, Van Gogh made his own decisions on what parts of the scenery he wanted to emphasize. In an illumination of van Gogh&#8217;s painting, Dean Russo chose to emphasize different portions of the illustration to heighten the importance of aspects that he found interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.12-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98\" src=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.12-AM-300x240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.12-AM-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.12-AM.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The painting Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh is a well known piece of artwork that represents van Gogh&#8217;s illustration of the view from his bedroom at the Saint- Remy-de- Provence. The painting shows\u00a0a small town that is surrounded by mountains. Van Gogh emphasizes the night sky, which takes up almost half of the painting. The sky is made up of an intricate mixture of blues and white that illustrate the clouds and sky itself. The stars and moon are surrounded by yellow &#8220;clouds&#8221; that highlight the light they give off. In contrast, the colors used for the mountains and the buildings are dull and dark, in part because the painting is set during the night. The brighter colors used in the top half of the painting draw the eye to the sky and the details found there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.26-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99\" src=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.26-AM-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.26-AM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.50.26-AM.png 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The illumination of Starry Night, by Dean Russo, emphasizes the sky, but interestingly also places emphasis on the mountains surrounding the town. In contrast to the dark blues that van Gogh used to illustrate the mountains, Russo chose to illuminate the mountains by painting them in vibrant yellows and oranges. Even though Russo used bright colors to illuminate the swirls in the clouds, the eye is drawn more strongly to the mountains. Although Russo used a wider variety of colors throughout the whole painting, the illumination of the mountains and clouds is obvious in contrast to the duller colors found in the rest of the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between an illustration and an illumination is subtle. An artist&#8217;s illustration is their interpretation and representation of something. In the following example, the original artist, Vincent van Gogh, illustrated a scene where he was living. When creating the painting, Van Gogh made his own decisions on what parts of the scenery he wanted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/starry-night-illustration-vs-illumination\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starry Night: Illustration vs. Illumination&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}