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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.
May 21, 2024 · The Starry Night, an abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1889. The work was not well known when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) purchased it in 1941, but it soon became one of van Gogh’s most famous works.
Vincent van Gogh 1889. Van Gogh 's night sky is a field of roiling energy. Below the exploding stars, the village is a place of quiet order. Connecting earth and sky is the flamelike...
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night Saint Rémy, June 1889. New on view. MoMA, Floor 5, 501 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries. In creating this image of the night sky—dominated by the bright moon at right and Venus at center left—van Gogh heralded modern painting’s new embrace of mood, expression, symbol, and sentiment.
Title: The Starry Night. Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) Date: June 1889. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 29 × 36 1/4 in. (73.7 × 92.1 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Dec 6, 2023 · Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm (The Museum of Modern Art). A conversation with Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. A rare night landscape
The curving, swirling lines of hills, mountains, and sky, the brilliantly contrasting blues and yellows, the large, flame-like cypress trees, and the thickly layered brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night are engrained in the minds of many as an expression of the artist’s turbulent state-of-mind.
