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The emotion of "Dr. Paul Gachet"

                                     NinaYang

W&CIII

Ms. Guarino

09/19/2014

  The artist Van Gogh likes to use two opposite colors to represent his emotion of his paintings. In Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Dr. Paul Gachet", the man’s face and body along with the dominant color blue throughout the painting express a feeling of sorrow.

  In the painting, there is an old man, which is Dr. Pail Gachet is sitting behind the red table and using one of his hands to brace his up. His eyes seem glazed and hopeless. There is something bright leaking out of his eyes and that might be his tear. The wrinkles on his eyes can show he is a hoary and aged man. He is looking somewhere else instead of looking at the artist. This increases the sorrow in the painting. The background color of this painting is blue and there is a bit of bright red in the foreground of the painting, which is the color of the table. The sorrow emotion is pretty obvious in this painting since the color of the old man’s jacket is even blue. The contrast of the two colors even increases the depressed feeling the artist wants to express.

  Van Gogh’s painting is the realistic life of him. He has mental disorder, which caused him goes into the bedlam. At there, he met Dr. Paul Gachet who was Van Gogh’s personal doctor. Dr. Paul Gachet was the last doctor Van Gogh met before his death. He was friend with Van Gogh. However, Van Gogh also had some personal disagreements with Dr. Paul Gachet and he thought Dr. Paul Gachet was even crazier than he was. Therefore, in Van Gogh’s last painting, which is Dr. Paul Gachet, he drew his doctor as a dull and depress figure. There were many statements why Van Gogh had disagreements with Dr. Paul Gachetd. Some people thinks that’s because Van Gogh was really crazy at that time so he thought everyone was crazy. Other people thinks that’s because he fell in love with doctor’s daughter and Dr. Paul Gachet likes someone paint for him. However, he didn’t want his daughter merry someone who is crazy. Then, he and Van Gogh had the disagreements.

  Despite what people have said about Van Gogh, his painting “Dr. Paul Gachet” really contains a great sorrow and depressed not only from the dominant color blue, but also from the man’s spiritless face.