The world around Vincent effected his artwork in many different ways. Some of the main ways the world effected his art are:

When he worked as a layman preacher in Belgium in the coal mines he produced coal sketches of the area an example is the picture below:

Another way was when he took painting lessons from Anton Mauve at the Hague. The main way his work changed was the way he played with light and the looseness of his brush strokes.

Afterwards infulenced by Jean-Francois Millet he changed again and this time decided to paint peasants and rural scenes

In 1885 Van Gogh attended the art academy in Antwerp and got in touch with Japaneese art. The bright colours, the use of the canvas space and the role lines played greatly impacted him.

Later during his stay in a clinic (1889) Van Gogh changed his painting style again this time from dots to stripes and pencil strokes to spiral curves.

The artwork that I am going to critique is the one above Church at Auvers. This is an oil painting was painted in 1890 while Van Gogh was staying in Auvers. Church at Auvers and some other paintings are similar to the area he lived in, in his childhood. The letter he wrote about it mentions that it is similar to the piece of work he did back in Nuenen.

The foreground of the church is lit by the sun but the church sits in a shadow and does not reflect or emmit any light of its own. The church is to symbolise empty and unenlightened preaching from the theatre production Henry IV Part 1 by Shakespeare. The picture in general uses light colours and has many dashes and swerves in it.