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The 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.
His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612 . JH1731 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh , Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731. See also F1540 The Starry Night (drawing, same composition) and the preliminary studies F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village and F1730 Landscape with Cypresses (Hulsker p. 396).
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Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to capture a phenomenon known as turbulence, scientists showed by applying mathematics to the painting. Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that ...
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 ...
A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in his painting “The Starry Night.”