"Boots of Life"

Well, I dont have anything important to tell about my feelings, because I think that if you see my photo you will know of what I am talking about.

I was just kidding, and know I am going to tell you a little about how did I picked this picture and what did I feel when I saw it the first time. It was one day afternoon when I decided to begin my BLOG, so I started searching on "google" important paintings and sculptures all over the world, but the few things that I found didn´t make me feel something and if I chose them I was going to do the BLOG only as a homework, but i didn´t want to do it like that, I just wanted my blog be the best part of my art criticism and values that i put to artistic works.

I continue searching on paintings of Michelangelo, Dali, Rafael, Rivera, Rebrandt, etc. Then I saw a image and I stopped, I looked it carefully and I discovered which was the protagonist in my BLOG, a painting named "The Boots" by Vincent Van Gogh. This picture attract all my atention because it was a simple painting of a boots in a yellow background, and I know it´s kind of weird that a simple pair of rag boots catched my eyes. (:D)

Since that moment, I knew that it was time to begin all my representatio work and this is what i made:

Firstly, I thought kind of phylosphical stuffs in my mind, trying to blow up my five senses and star working. Befor knowing the real story about the boots of Van Gogh I selected two wordsewas HARDWORK and SACRIFICE.

The first idea that I had was to cover my arms and hands with mud, like making a relation with the hardwork of the people and the slaughter suffering , but suddenly I thought that if i only put the gray picture, it was going to be kind of boring and without feelings so i put a green leave between my hands , becuase I dont like the sad moments, but i hope that always that you are suffering, there is a little light between and if we used we can resolver our problems only if we trust in ourselves.

Then I kept thinking on hardwork, and in my house I began to have a photographic session in which I was the model, as the same as the first picture i covered myself of mud and I tryed to work out some ideas for my next photo, and i decided to take a photo in wich i was without t-shirt and covered with mud my back and arms, then i took a scoop with my two hands and took the photo, in that photo i tryed to made important the work and the slaughter that i think that Van Gogh wanted to transmit to us, in that same picture i am alone and i only have my scoop and the mud as partners, anybody is beside me hoping i will be fine.

In the last picture, there are my soccer boots, a scoop and my dirty hand over the shoes. This picture was supposed to be like the one of Vincent Van Gogh, the only difference is the contrast that i wanted to be seen in my photo, if we can see the boots are white and over the white there is a dirty hand maybe of a worker.

The sense of this picture is that a worker can´t buy a pair of white shoes, they could only be avaiable to have boots (work boots), but i think that supporting slaughter we can grew up as persons, brother, sister, father, mother, friend, etc. and we can also have big goals in our lives.

Finally, in my opinion about all i had said about the picture and the author, I think that nowdays people dont want to suffer and being humble (values don´t poor) they want to be superb and that is not good, because there is an example our fathers maybe support us with sacrifice, but we were their children the couldn´t let us down, and know they can look to us and say " Im the luckiest father of the world" (includes mother too).

Analyzing "Van Gogh Boots"

Now, I am going to analyze the picture of Vincent Van Gogh with Ingardens Theory, which is about the self feelings and the visible and invisible objects on the painting.


Concretation:
In the image, if i fill in the blanks I can see a pair of alone boots, that are sad because their owner isnt there, then I can see a piece of floor of the room of Vincent. I think that the paintings are only about the boots, because they really were one of the most valious things that owned to Van Gogh. But if I continue filling in the blanks I wont be able to describe perfectly what is in my mind, because I begin to think over and I thought that sometimes we are such alone like te painting of the boots, that no one else is awaiting for us, so we are suffering, and without suffer we can´t think about our lives and how we are doing in here. Especially in my opinion i think that people dont like to suffer, but we need to have this pain, because this time of pain is the time when we can be in the deepest part of our soul and our hearts.


Physical Object:
This painting was made in 1888 by the famous paintor Vincent Van Gogh, this paintings is made on a surface of white canvas, the painting was painted with oil and a differente brushes. Anyway we can include the wooden desk and the boots as physical objects.


Aesthetic Object:
The aesthetic object of this painting for me, is that with the boots Van Gogh wants to represent us the hard work that we need to pay for an instance in our life. I think that Vincent wanted to transmit to us the value of the slaughter, because if we watch the boots, we can see an old boots, smelly boots, hardwork boots, but if we se through them we can see the most important things wich is they are still boots and they still work, so it doesnt matter if they are a bunch of rag, they work and that is the best.


Aesthetic Values:

The aesthetic values following Ingardens Theory, are the ones that you feel in an artistic work as beauty, impact, amazment, etc.
With this picture I felt some aesthetic values like, profundity; the boots are in the center and they introduced myself inside of the picture, deepnes; the picture is deep and all the complement colors make the boots a beautiful contrast which made me feel exactly what Vincent felt when he paint the boots. And finally i felt like a strange serenity because when you see it you are like if you were breathing lots of peace, but then you say what? the boots are a little rude.

Artistic Values:

The artistic values are the ones that make the art work, be really an artistic feel.
The painting hasn´t a frame, it is signed by the author, the light is coming from the top right corner, it has cold and hot colors. (black and yellow/ mostly).

Searched: 2/09/09
Avaiable at : http://cursos.itesm.mx/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_228425_1%26url%3D

" Van Gogh Boots"

¿Why the boots?

This story we owe it to Paul Gauguin who shared a room with Vincent in Arles , France in 1888. He tells that in the study Vincent had a pair of hobnail boots full of mud, which made a remarkable painting, intrigued by the reason for keeping such a rag he asked him one day. Vincent then told the story of that pair of shoes.

"My father was a pastor and with him I studied theology. One morning, without telling anyone, I went to Belgium, I was very young, ready to preach the gospel in the factories, but I taugh it jus like as I understand it and I believed that Jesus loved the poor. These boots join me in all my trip".

But there is more, Gaugin tell that Vincent told him a story wich one day in one of the factories where he was preaching, there was an grisu explosion and a man was burnt and maimed. The doctor said that only a miracle could save the life of this gentleman, so Vincent worried about him decided to stay fourty days with the man. Finally the man was safe and Vincent kept the boots, because he thought that Jesus resurrected this man and that was like a relic of a miracle of Jesus, the Jesus who lives in the dephts of each one.

Gaugin concludes: "And Vincent took his brush again, and quietly went to work"

Searched: 2/09/09

Available on: http://www.fotolog.com.ar/cyber_pichu/photos/322909

http://wwwsubterraneos.blogspot.com/2009/01/las-botas-de-van-gogh.html