Van Gogh: "Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Starry Night over the Rhone was painted on the bank of the Rhone river, only a few minutes walk from Van An exquisite night scene Van Gogh painted while living in Arles. Like his other paintings featuring starry Scroll up. The village was more creative license than reality.
The Starry Night may be about mortality. This was not Van Gogh's first Starry Night. Van Gogh considered The Starry Night a "failure. Van Gogh unknowingly painted Venus. Van Gogh sold only one or two paintings in his life—and neither was The Starry Night. The Starry Night was twice owned by Theo's widow. The lights of The Starry Night seem to flicker because of how the human brain works. Subscribe to our Newsletter! They are the big attention grabber of the painting.
Shop Our Christmas Cards. Notice the brush strokes. For the sky they swirl, each dab of color rolling with the clouds around the stars and moon.
On the cypress tree they bend with the curve of the branches. The whole effect is ethereal and dreamlike. The hills easily roll down into the little village below. In contrast, the town is straight up and down, done with rigid lines that interrupt the flow of the brush strokes. Tiny little trees soften the inflexibility of the town. The church spire seems to be stretching up into the elements, at once an antenna and a lightning conductor, like some kind of provincial Eiffel Tower the fascination of which was never far from van Gogh's nocturnes.
Van Gogh's mountains and trees particularly the cypresses had hardly been discovered but they seemed to crackle with an electric charge. Confident that he had grasped their natural appearance, van Gogh set out to remake their image in the service of the symbolic. Together with the firmament, these landscape features are singing the praises of Creation in this painting.
I have done another landscape with olive trees, and a new study of the 'starry sky'. Although I have not seen the new pictures by Gauguin and Bernard, I am fairly certain that these two studies are similarly conceived.
When you see them some time [ But via Delacroixone can express more of Nature and the country, by means of colour and an individual drawing style, than might appear. First, his synthesis of motifs was his first echo of work with Gauguin since his breakdown.
The night stars scene this is something that had only just become important to Van Gogh offers the visual imagination its most distinctive, unique field of activity, since the lack of light requires the compensatory use of visual memory. Van Gogh used the memory method in his nocturnal scene; his discovery of the luminous power of darkness was a personal aesthetic discovery and needed no Gauguin as catalyst.
Third, he was searching for the essence of the landscape, its very being - a way of registering its symbolic power, its vitality, its flux and constancy, all in one.
Interpretations of this Van Gogh night stars painting are legion. Some claim it is a perfectly realistic account of the position of the stars in June This, needless to say, is perfectly possible.
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