A mono-toned starry night with twisty, long lines and cracked short lines unexpectedly generates a wonderful sight. It states darkness in the artist's soul. The artist of the painting is none other than Vincent Willem Van Gogh, who is a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter. He drew the painting in an asylum at Saint-Remy, France, in 1889. He cut off his own ear, and then he was sent to the asylum, which was the reason that he created the Starry Night in an asylum.
This masterpiece has been collected and exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941. The background of this painting is still under debate. Some scholars think this paint is an outside view of the hospital he was in, while others think that the painting is from his memory and mind, and not real. In many viewers' eyes, the Starry Night is just a simple night painting, but the fact is that it is famous for having many different symbolic contents and colors.
The painting is called the Starry Night, and just as the name implies, it is on bestrewing many stars sky. From the Starry Night, there is the dark blue sky full of some swirling clouds, many shining stars, and a luminous moon. Those lines that are like eddies looks as if clouds, stars, and the moon are moving so that it keeps the views' eyes moving to follow after those objects. These kinds of lines in painting can create fantastic visuals and change viewers' souls. But in fact, the picture is actually motionless, and it is only the human's mind that makes the picture appear to be in motion. The continuously rolling clouds and stars indicate that the inner-world of Van Gogh is tangled like them. At first, he can clearly draw those objects as usual, while he paints them in an expected way; such an idea is mostly from his mind that is filled with hesitation whether he should tell the viewers that he is suffering from insanity. Every line in the painting represents the artist's sentiments at that time.
Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night intrigues me with his playful use of lines. ... Isn't that what Van Gogh wants us to see and feel? ... I could stare and dream about Starry Night all day and never tire of it. ... Van Gogh was a man with a vision and it's executed beautifully in Starry Night. ... Van Gogh really takes us to a spiritual place. ...
One example of such an icon is the painting is "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh. ... "Starry Night" is widely known simply as "a painting that some guy named Van Gogh did". ... "Starry Night" was painted in Saint-Remy in 1889 while Van Gogh was in the asylum there (Gallery). ... Some people believe that Van Gogh chose to paint his series of "Starry Night" paintings because they helped him find peace. ... As noted previously, Van Gogh had exactly eleven stars painted in this depiction, but not so in his other "Starry Night" from earlier that year. ...
Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is a marvelous painting in which Van Gogh paints a picture that is colorful and descriptive. ... Van Gogh portrays a small French town located in the countryside. ... Van Gogh uses oil to paint this work on a 72cm x 92cm canvas board. ... In the Starry Night mood and description play a major part. ... This painting can be described as one of Van Gogh's best. ...
By looking at three Van Gogh's artworks named "The Potato Eaters," "Sower at Sunset," and "Starry Night," it can be seen how Van Gogh's technique blossomed from a dark bud to a bright flower. ... The painting "Starry Night" is another of Van Gogh's most famous works completed in 1889, four years after "The Potato Eaters" was made. ... In "Starry Night," Van Gogh used clear outlines around the objects such as the mountains, the buildings, and the tree. ... However, for me, the best painting among them is "Starry Nig...
Vincent Van Gogh, the creator of The Starry Night, was born in Groot Zundert, The Netherlands on March 30th, 1853. ... It is at this asylum that Van Gogh painted his famous The Starry Night. ... Van Gogh's Starry Night paved the way for paintings with movement and colors that seemed to come alive. ... Whether The Starry Night is a religious subject is unclear. ... I feel that The Starry Night has a timeless quality of a masterpiece. ...
The Starry Night Anne Sexton poem The Starry Night reflects the Vincent von Gogh's painting The Starry Night very well. ... Van Gogh painting "The Starry Night was completed near the mental asylum of Saint-Remy, 13 months before Van Gogh's death" (online 1) and Sexton were depressed most of the time. Though there is not much information on Van Gogh's life, we can see form Sexton's life why she was inspired by this painting. ... Van Gogh painted furiously and The Starry Night vibrates with rockets of burning yellow while planets gyrate like cartwheels. ...
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. ... The Sky "The Starry Night- is an oil-on-canvas depiction of a night scene in France portraying a cypress tree in the foreground along with a twisted yet mesmerizing sky, eleven explosive and magnified stars, and a quaint little village. ... Van Gogh painted the sky with overlapping, rapid, and curving strokes that created a great dynamic, swirling motion. ... It upsets the balance to what had could have been a m...
"The Starry Night," by Vincent Van Gogh is an example of an expressionist's perspective of an unusual, chaotic, star-studded night, above a small town located in the middle of a hilly landscape. ... Van Gogh paints the town in straight, diagonals and horizontals, and does not pays much attention to small detail. ... Vincent Van Gogh is known for his expressive line which is loose and free, almost out of control. 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. ... This use of expre...
When I first encountered this painting I was taken back by Vincent Van Goghs usage of yellows and blues. ... I feel the tree is there to give a good indication as to how far Vincent Van Gogh may have been when he painted the town, as well as a scale for the homes in the distance. ... Vincent Van Gogh may have used the illusion of light to reflect some of the beauty of the countryside in the twig light hours. Not only are the homes and the sky elaborately colored, Vincent Van Gogh even went on to paint the mountains behind the town, which appear to be rolling or the wind just flowing over i...
