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The Starry Night ( Dutch: De sterrennacht) 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.
- 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (29.01 in × 36.26 in)
- Vincent van Gogh
- 1889
Apr 1, 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.
The Starry Night was painted by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1889 during his stay at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Van Gogh observed the night sky from his barred bedroom window and became preoccupied by the challenges of painting a nighttime landscape.
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Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. Saint Rémy, June 1889. 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.
Dec 6, 2023 · 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 ingrained in the minds of many as an expression of the artist’s turbulent state-of-mind.
Details. Title: The Starry Night. Creator: Vincent van Gogh. Creator Lifespan: March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890. Creator Nationality: Dutch. Creator Gender: Male. Creator Death Place:...
Following the dramatic end to his short-lived collaboration with the painter Paul Gauguin in Arles in 1888 and the infamous breakdown during which he mutilated part of his own ear, Van Gogh was ultimately hospitalized at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, an asylum and clinic for the mentally ill near the village of Saint-Rémy.
