Vincent Van Gogh Museum - FABULOUS!

On May 8th We went to the Van Gogh Museum. I was personally really excited about this because of studying many of Van Gogh's famous pieces. It was more of a surreal/emotional expirience to actually see Van Gogh's pieces in person.
The first level of the museum had pieces by many well-known artists that also followed in the same style and time period as Van Gogh. This was neat to see how Van Gogh appeared and was compared to other artists if the time. Some of the pieces that I really enjoyed were ones by Rousseau and Monticelli, becuause of the applied texture that was achieved by the way they applied the paint in the canvas.
On the second floor this was filled with many paintings throughout Van Gogh's life. I found this to be the best part of the museum. In most of Van Gogh's paintings you can see the applied texture and energetic brush strokes done all by many vivid fast brush strokes. On thing that you can't really tell from seeing the pieces in a text book is the contrasting color that he uses in almost all of his pieces. This is such a revolutionalry concept that makes so many paintings that much more powerful. I was so amazed that even in Van Gogh's period he captures so much more appeal when viewing his paintings by using the contrasting colors.
In many of the oriental flowers that are in his paintings for a period they seem to have even more built up texture than many of his others. This is so energetic and amazing to see in person. Being an art major i found going to this museum was my favorite so far. I feel i had a connection with these pieces and to see them in person is absolutley amazing and had to put all of my feelings into words. But if i am ever back i think i would come back to the Van Gogh museum because it is fabulous!