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  2. The Starry Night - Wikipedia

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    Loevgren asserts that the pictorial elements of The Starry Night "are visualized in purely symbolic terms" and notes that "the cypress is the tree of death in the Mediterranean countries." [55] The drawing Cypresses in Starry Night, a reed pen copy executed by Van Gogh after the painting in 1889.

  3. Vincent (Don McLean song) - Wikipedia

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    [10] The site also said McLean performs "a particularly poignant rendition" of "Vincent" on the 2001 live album Starry, Starry Night. [11] The song was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, and it was played to him at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the hospital that he was admitted to just before he died ...

  4. Cultural depictions of Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia

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    In 1971, singer Don McLean wrote the ballad "Vincent" in honor of Van Gogh; also known by its opening words, "Starry Starry Night," the song refers to the painting [3] In 2006, Hong Kong singer-songwriter Ivana Wong composed a song called "Painting's Meaning" (Traditional Chinese: 畫意) in memory of van Gogh.

  5. Talk:The Starry Night - Wikipedia

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    Cypress trees were often used as a symbol of death, as they were commonly found in graveyards. As religion represented by the church connects god and man, god and man are also brought together in death - shown as the cypress tree connecting the earth and sky. In the painting, the cypress tree takes up much more space than the church and its spire.

  6. Road with Cypress and Star - Wikipedia

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    Road with Cypress and Star (Dutch: Cypres bij sterrennacht), also known as Country Road in Provence by Night, is an 1890 oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It is the last painting he made in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , France. [ 1 ]

  7. How Judy Garland Made 'Have Yourself a Merry Little ... - AOL

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    The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis.It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...

  8. Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Wikipedia

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    Cypresses was painted by Vincent van Gogh while the post impressionist was a patient at Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy.While being held at the asylum, van Gogh was allowed to continue his painting; among other subjects, the artist was interested in painting cypresses (which van Gogh described as "beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk" [3]) and pines.

  9. Wheat Field with Cypresses - Wikipedia

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    The painting depicts golden fields of ripe wheat, a dark fastigiate Provençal cypress towering like a green obelisk to the right and lighter green olive trees in the middle distance, with hills and mountains visible behind, and white clouds swirling in an azure sky above.