The creator of this oil on canvas painting was Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch post-impressionist artist. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window in 1889. Though such a simple concept, to this day “The Starry Night” is in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.
Van Gogh even wrote about this painting:
“… it does me good to do what’s difficult. That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word – for religion – so I go outside at night to paint the stars.”
On that note this painting is of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the asylum more north. Although the hills to the right were taken from a different area towards the south of the asylum. It comes together as if naturally in its original area, and with the cypress tree on the left being added to the composition for its sheer native beauty.
Although van Gogh himself wasn’t pleased with the painting, it is one of his most well known pieces of work. One thought on “The Starry Night” is that it is not only mind blowing, but monumental. This painting captures the elegance of the night sky in such exaggerated detail that the composition itself, will be stuck in your mind eternally.
Epic Art 