The church is the only building that has actual planes of color and complex outer structure. As far as color is considered, blue and purple pretty much dominate the painting. In the sky, the moon itself is a yellowish orange color, while the two spiraling bands in the sky are greenish-blue. ... In his painting, "The Starry Night," Van Gogh represents life and death through his choice of free flowing line and the basic colors of blues and purples. ...

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He uses these details to paint a story full of color and intrigue. ... He uses different colors like blue, black, orange, yellow, purple, green, and violet. He paints the sky purple and dark blue to signify the evening. ... With the use of color, texture, and descriptive objects, Van Gogh develops a marvelous painting that will always be remembered for its beauty and mystery....

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He uses these details to paint a story full of color and intrigue. ... He uses different colors like blue, black, orange, yellow, purple, green, and violet. He paints the sky purple and dark blue to signify the evening. ... With the use of color, texture, and descriptive objects, Van Gogh develops a marvelous painting that will always be remembered for its beauty and mystery. ...

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Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1989) has proven, through out time, to be an outstanding demonstration of how emotions can be conveyed through color and brushstroke. ... With the use of color, texture, and descriptive objects, Van Gogh develops a marvelous painting that will always be remembered for its beauty and mystery. ... With its incomparable orange color, the crescent moon seems to take on the appearance of the sun. ...

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I think the homes are also colored with purples, blues, and reds to keep the onlookers attention as they look from the two major points in the paintings. ... It seems to be giving off a radiating light that would just light up the whole the sky in the painting, a kind of atmospheric color. ... Giving off a swirls of light as if they where directed by wind currents, that in twined with the color of the sky with it. ... The rolling mountains are just below the skyline, giving off the color blue as if it where the horizon. ... At first sight the painting can be seen as mysterious and intrigui...

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Van Gough used a combination of stimulating blues, greens, and purples to stimulate the mind but then interrupts it by the startling images of the yellow stars. ... Although he did not use simultaneous color and contrast the yellow of the stars seem to bounce out of the paint. Color and shapes are very evident in determining the meaning behind the painting, I believe that texture is the most important. ...

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