Van Gogh And Starry Night

There are many ways one can view this painting. One can see a night sky that is brimming with whirly clouds, bright stars, and one beautiful crescent moon; a church steeple dominating the lit villages, a curvy cypress tree, and some hills.
Van Gogh was inspired to create Starry Night because he yearned to create an ideal night full of stars, full of wonderment instead of mere observation , which was unlike his last two paintings—Café Terrace at Night and Starry Night over the Rhone. He saw the hills and cypresses when he looked at his window in the asylum, and the church steeple and the moon were made from memory, perhaps a reminder of his homeland, Brabant. This combination of memory and observation created the imaginative quality that we see.

Happiness and hope can be found in the darkest of times, and Van Gogh chose to create his own light.

One can see Van Gogh’s emotional suffering and mental instability expressed through the tumultuous strokes of the dark night sky and the cypress associated with mourning. One can see Van Gogh’s hope and wonder through the simplicity of the lit villages and the hills.The result is a landscape made with curves and lines, the chaos in the night sky subverted by the formal arrangement of other

forms.

Last, but not the least, one can see the artwork that advanced the act of painting beyond the physical world.