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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.
Starry Night [1] (September 1888, French: La Nuit étoilée), commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which van Gogh was renting at the time.
This mid-scale, oil-on-canvas painting is dominated by a moon- and star-filled night sky. It takes up three-quarters of the picture plane and appears turbulent, even agitated, with intensely swirling patterns that seem to roll across its surface like waves.
Leaving behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all...
3 days ago · 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.
Nov 1, 2012 · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889. . Vincent van Gogh: The Letters . Van Gogh Museum . "At last I have a landscape with olive trees [probably F712 ], and also a new study of a starry sky." Letter 805: to Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889. .
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Sep 8, 2024 · This summer, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles had the honor to present Van Gogh’s famous “cosmic poem” Starry Night over the Rhône (from 1st June until 26 August), one of the masterpieces in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay.
