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The Starry Night, often called simply Starry Night, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889.It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
Theo tells him about his dreams: Vincent moving back to Montmartre and painting Theo’s son and him seeing his art inspiring other people ("The Red Vineyard"). Vincent, in a moment of clarity, paints The Starry Night, deciding it will be his legacy ("The Starry Night"). However, Vincent chooses to go out into the wheat fields and shoot himself.
Starry Night, which is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, was first exhibited in 1889 at Paris' annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. It was shown together with van Gogh's Irises, which was added by Vincent's brother, Theo, although Vincent had proposed including one of his paintings from the public gardens in Arles.
In 1941 — 52 years after van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" — mathematician Andrey N. Kolmogorov proposed a formula to explain how the kinetic energy of a vigorously moving fluid flowed from ...
“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovered. It ...
You don’t have to be an art historian to know that Vincent van Gogh, painter of The Starry Night, had some serious demons—but he also had a brother, Theo, who loved him: fiercely ...
Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889), described in the song "Vincent" is a song by Don McLean, written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh.It is often erroneously titled after its opening refrain, "Starry, Starry Night", a reference to Van Gogh's 1889 painting The Starry Night.
"Starry Night," a poem written by Tupac Shakur, is a dedication to Van Gogh and his work. Letters to Theo, a selection of Vincent's letters to his brother in various sized volumes, became popular in several languages during the 1950s.