The Starry Night, Van Gogh
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| Author: | Vincent van Gogh |
|---|---|
| Original Title: | La Nuit étoilée |
| Type: | Painting |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1889 |
| Genre: | Landscape |
| Subject: | Life in the suburbs |
| Located: | MoMA museum, New York. |
Origin of the Painting.
Painted in 1889, the work captures the nighttime views Van Gogh had from his room in the mental asylum of Saint-Remy, where he spent the last years of his life. In the background is the village, whose tranquility and somber colors contrast with the energetic composition of the sky, where its voluptuous textures and spiraling strokes convey vivacity and dynamism. It is said that Van Gogh conveyed that the work is focused on the sky, not on the earth.
The Starry Night in Vincent's Letters
As the artist mentioned in one of his letters to his brother Theo, this was the view of the village he contemplated in the early hours from his window. The great star illuminated in white, which the artist defines in his letter as "the morning star", is actually the planet Venus according to experts.
He also mentions his enormous desire to paint the sky in a letter addressed to Émile Bernard (also a post-impressionist painter of the time) “When will I be able to make the starry sky, that painting that is always on my mind?” he said in June 1888.
Van Gogh's Influences in Art
Not only is it one of the most reproduced and versioned paintings in history, it has gone much further, inspiring artists from pictorial and other disciplines, one of the famous ones is Don Mclean who, upon reading about Van Gogh's life, was inspired by the painting to write his most famous song: “Vincent”. Mclean, declared admirer of the work and life of the painter, writes emotive words:
“And when no hope was left in sight on that
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