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  2. The Starry Night - Wikipedia

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    The painting was investigated by scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [85] The pigment analysis has shown that the sky was painted with ultramarine and cobalt blue, and for the stars and the moon, Van Gogh employed the rare pigment indian yellow together with zinc yellow. [86]

  3. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Wikipedia

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    Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.

  4. Picasso's Blue Period - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Period (Spanish: Período Azul) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904. During this time, Picasso painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These sombre works, inspired by Spain and painted in Barcelona and Paris ...

  5. Night in paintings (Western art) - Wikipedia

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    Giotto depicts night and heaven through the use of a deep blue background in the fresco panel and use of stars in the otherwise blue ceiling. [ 14 ] : 383 [ 15 ] He was able to create depth and dimension through the use of incremental degrees of light and dark shades, the precursor to chiaroscuro .

  6. Starry Night Over the Rhône - Wikipedia

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    The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of van Gogh's more famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June, 1889, canvas from Saint-Remy, The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on 2 October ...

  7. Sky Above Clouds - Wikipedia

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    Sky with Flat White Cloud, also known as Sky above White Clouds I, [29] is an abstract, 1962 painting that was inspired by O'Keeffe's trip to Egypt in the spring of that year. The canvas is horizontal, showing blue and green stripes of color (the sky) at the top, while two-thirds of the portion below (the clouds) is white.

  8. Olive Trees (Van Gogh series) - Wikipedia

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    He began to use the color blue to represent the divine. In both The Starry Night and his olive tree paintings, van Gogh used the intense blue of the sky to symbolize the "divine and infinite presence" of Jesus. Seeking a "modern artistic language" to represent the divine, he sought a numinous quality in many of his olive tree paintings, such as ...

  9. Vädersolstavlan - Wikipedia

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    Landscape with a realistic sky by Albrecht Altdorfer 1528. (Alte Pinakothek.) In Albrecht Altdorfer's The Battle of Alexander at Issus, one of the most famous paintings produced by the Danube School, a composition similar to Vädersolstavlan renders the battle scene in a detailed landscape under a sky crowded with celestial symbols and messages.