Starry Night, the Masterpiece of Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night, the Masterpiece of Vincent Van Gogh
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In the last years of his life, Vincent Van Gogh created one of the most impressive and talked-about paintings of all time. Starry Night (Starry Night), is a canvas so dreamlike that it's impossible for anyone to contemplate it without wanting to try to uncover what's expressed with such originality in the games of colors and brushstrokes and the wavy, rectified lines in contrast.
Few people know that Vincent considered his Starry Night a bad painting. He painted it, looking out the window of the Asylum Saint-Paul where he was interned. He wrote to his brother Theo, commenting on his paintings, saying that he would send several of them by mail. (Theo tried unsuccessfully to sell the paintings). Van Gogh emphasized that this was a painting 'Not very good'.
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Starry Night is the only nocturnal painting of the series of works from the view of the hospital room. He also wrote to his brother, who 'observing the sky through the window before dawn, noticed that it was clear, nothing but a very large star, which could only be the Dawn Star'. Some researchers determine that Venus was indeed very visible at dawn in the spring of Provence in 1889, its brilliance was a splendor at that time. Thus, it was concluded that the 'brightest' star in the painting, right next to the cypress, is the second planet in the Solar System, Venus.
Starry Night is a work that is capable of inspiring many forms of art, being at the same time representative of a very sublime and particular moment, highly intimate in the mind of a person able to observe with respect, calm, tenacity and love for the beauty of nature, but that transcends to the eternal, to something great, wide, external, like the sky, its stars and the moon.
A CURIOUS FACT:
Fascinated by the artist and especially by this painting in particular, a netizen tried to represent in a large exercise of imagination, how the real image that influenced the artist on that night would have been, if Van Gogh had not been interned. Very creative..... incredibly real!
STARRY NIGHT OVER THE RHONE
The Rhône (French Rhône) is an important European river that has its source in Switzerland and ends its course in France, where it flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
In the last years of his life, the Dutch painter showed a great interest in nocturnal skies. They say he was a great astronomy enthusiast, being an avid reader of a magazine with this theme.
The canvas Starry Night over the Rhône was painted in Arles, southern France, where Van Gogh moved in search of light and color, nine months before being interned. Despite the exuberance of the blue and yellow colors, everything is calm and magnificent with the natural lights, coming from the stars, and the golden light of the houses reflecting on the river. The waves of the water bring a romantic atmosphere. The visual impact caused is immediate, establishing a magic between the painting and the observer
This nocturnal scene was based, according to the researchers, on an emotional experience of endless darkness, which Van Gogh describes in a letter to his brother:
'Once I took a walk on the deserted beach, at night. It wasn't happy, nor sad – it was beautiful.'
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