The artist is looking down on a village from an imaginary viewpoint. Just as we take the train to go to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to go to a star." Why, I say to myself, should the spots of light in the firmament be less accessible to us than the black spots on the map of France?. Several months after painting Starry Night, in Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, he wrote: The sole exception is the village in the foreground with its architectural elements. One has the impression that the artist has expelled his inner conflict onto a canvas.Įverything here is brewed in a huge cosmic fusion. In an enclosure," he wrote in May of 1889, "above which in the morning I see the sunrise in its glory."Īn end-of-the-world cataclysm invades Van Gogh's Starry Night, one of apocalypse filled with melting aerolites and comets adrift. "Through the iron-barred window I can make out a square of wheat Thus, in addition to descriptions evident in the myriad of letters he wrote to his brother, Theo, it offers a rare nighttime glimpse into what the artist saw while in isolation. Though Van Gogh revisited this scene in his work on several occasions, "Starry Night" is the only nocturnal study of the view. Starry Night depicts a dreamy interpretation of the artist's asylum room's sweeping view of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Widely hailed as Van Gogh's magnum opus, this Vincent van Gogh night stars painting depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. The Starry Night, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh's Sketches in letters (1890).Vincent van Gogh's Paintings Saint Remy (1889-1890).Vincent van Gogh's Paintings at Auvers sur Oise (1890).Vincent van Gogh's Paintings at Arles (1888-1889).Vincent van Gogh's Paintings at Paris (1886-1888).Vincent van Gogh's Paintings at Nuenen (1883-1885).Japonaiserie Oiranrn by Vincent van Gogh.The Langlois Bridge at Arles by Vincent van Gogh.
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