The Starry Night aesthetic is created by Van Gogh's use of color, light, and brushstrokes. For this oil on canvas painting, Van Gogh applied the paint directly to the canvas, resulting in very intense color and paint that stands up off the canvas' surface. The top two-thirds of the canvas is the night sky, with a small town nestled between the Alpilles mountains and an olive grove. The sky is full of energy created by short, circular brushstrokes of intense blue around glowing yellow and white circular stars and a crescent moon. The morning star, just to the left of center, glows brightest. The blue of the sky is blended into the black mountains. There is a large cypress tree on the left in the foreground that moves and sways with the same energy as the sky. It has been described as flame-like. The cypress reaches almost the entire height of the painting. The small village in the center is a juxtaposition, with straight brushstrokes in muted greys and blacks. The church spire reaches into the sky, mirroring the cypress tree. Yellow lights glow from the village windows. The church is notably dark, with no light shining from its windows. It is the sky that draws the eye, with its energy, swirling movement, and dream-like quality. To unlock this lesson you must be a Member. Create your account From The Starry Night analysis, it is evident that this painting is an excellent example of Post-Impressionism, which focuses on color, light, and the artist's feelings. Nature is often the subject of paintings from this period. Van Gogh was fascinated by the night sky and believed that there were more colors in the night than during the day. He also believed that death was a way to travel to the stars. The energy and movement of the dominating night sky in this painting are in contrast to the little town with its rigid, straight brushstrokes. The bright morning star, indicating the hours before dawn, was another obsession for Van Gogh. He made many sketches of the scene out his bedroom window at this time of night. The large cypress, also depicted with energetic brushstrokes, connects earth and sky like life and death. The Starry Night MeaningPost-Impressionist paintings are full of symbolism; and The Starry Night is no different. The Starry Night meaning is usually associated with Van Gogh's deteriorating mental health. The blues he used in this painting are a return to the colors he used previously during his struggles with mental illness. The swirling brushstrokes may also indicate his mental state. The dark church, painted from memory, has a steeple more like the Dutch churches of his youth, reminiscent of his deeply religious childhood. Surprisingly, the church does not have any light coming from the windows. The cypress tree was recognized as a symbol of graveyards and mourning. He wrote extensively in his letters to his brother Theo about stars, which dominate this painting, symbolizing for him dreaming, heaven, and death. It may be that The Starry Night foreshadowed Vincent Van Gogh's death by suicide one year after completing this painting. To unlock this lesson you must be a Member. Create your account The Starry Night was painted at The Saint Paul de Mausole asylum in France Van Gogh painted The Starry Night from memory in his studio The Starry Night is part of The Nocturne, a three painting set Van Gogh felt the painting was a failure Van Gogh died by suicide a year after completing The Starry Night The Starry Night was purchased in 1941 by The Museum of Modern Art in New York City The Starry Night is part of pop culture and is seen on everything, from mugs to T-shirts The Starry Night is included in The Immersive Van Gogh exhibit The Starry Night is worth over 100 million dollars today To unlock this lesson you must be a Member. Create your account Vincent Van Gogh painted The Starry Night while staying in The Saint Paul de Mausole asylum in France. He went to the asylum for mental illness treatment after cutting off part of his ear. The Starry Night aesthetic is an oil on canvas painting with swirling brush strokes, bright yellow and white circular stars, and a crescent moon. A small village is painted in the lower third of the painting with straight strokes of black and brown paint. A large cypress tree rises nearly the entire height of the painting on the left. It has similar energetic brushstrokes. A church spire reaches for the sky near the middle of the painting. To unlock this lesson you must be a Member. Create your account Analysis of the PaintingWhile van Gogh provided, via extensive letters to his brother, commentary on many of his works, he wrote shockingly little about The Starry Night. However, we do know that The Starry Night was not Vincent van Gogh's first attempt at painting the night sky, and by comparing the work to the earlier painting Starry Night Over the Rhone, one is able to make several inferences about how van Gogh felt by this point of his life. Starry Night Over the Rhone and The Starry Night Foremost, the humanity represented by Starry Night Over the Rhone is much brighter, as evidenced not only by the brightness of the windows, but the depths at which they are reflected on the river. Furthermore, the darkness of the sky is brighter than in The Starry Night, which, in the latter painting, is a symbol for depression. In the distance, the lighter blue is seen by some critics as the first signs of morning. It is important to note that here the optimism comes from the sky, not from the town. Description of the PaintingPainted by Vincent van Gogh just months before his tragic suicide, The Starry Night is perhaps his greatest masterpiece. In the work, van Gogh portrays a nameless European village amidst a dark wilderness, complete with dampened lights. Some buildings manage to emit just enough light to be noticed, but others, including, notably, the church, are dark and unwelcoming. However, the real action is what is going on above the town, where the moon and stars light up the sky. Light moves across the sky in great sweeps and strokes, defeating the dark sky wherever it is encountered. However, the stars are not enough to light up the whole sky, and between the viewer, the town, and the stars, there are vast fields of dark blue, a constant reminder of the depression and fear felt throughout the artist's life. Despite the best efforts of the stars above and the town below, the darkness still is not completely overcome. Analysis of the PaintingWhile van Gogh provided, via extensive letters to his brother, commentary on many of his works, he wrote shockingly little about The Starry Night. However, we do know that The Starry Night was not Vincent van Gogh's first attempt at painting the night sky, and by comparing the work to the earlier painting Starry Night Over the Rhone, one is able to make several inferences about how van Gogh felt by this point of his life. Starry Night Over the Rhone and The Starry Night Foremost, the humanity represented by Starry Night Over the Rhone is much brighter, as evidenced not only by the brightness of the windows, but the depths at which they are reflected on the river. Furthermore, the darkness of the sky is brighter than in The Starry Night, which, in the latter painting, is a symbol for depression. In the distance, the lighter blue is seen by some critics as the first signs of morning. It is important to note that here the optimism comes from the sky, not from the town. To unlock this lesson you must be a Member. Create your account
Portraitof van Gogh. Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh created Starry Night in 1889 just thirteen months before his death. At this time he was staying in an asylum at Saint-Remy in France and his behavior was particularly erratic due to his severe attacks. Starry Night is believed to show the view from his bedroom window at the asylum.
Samantha Klein, Patrick Hahne By reading "The Starry Night" by Robert Fagles, we were able to interpret a different perspective on Van Gough's original painting through altered detail and additional opinions. Fagles adds his personal description on how he interprets the windy skies and the "cloudrack coiling". He also places himself into the painting by adding his emotional attachment to each detail. He claims that the painting or painting himself is a therapeutic way for releasing his madness. Through viewing the painting and reading the poem, each student interpreted a feeling of relaxation and tranquility, imagining oneself staring up at the dark and electric skies. Both the poem and painting create the same emotional release.
Vincentvan Gogh: Malam Berbintang, Minyak di Atas Kanvas, Juni 1889. VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images. Penyair Anne Sexton (1928â1974) dan seniman Vincent van Gogh (1853â1890) keduanya memerangi setan pribadi. Puisi Anne Sexton tentang "The Starry Night" karya van Gogh menyajikan pemandangan yang tidak menyenangkan: Malam adalah
When one experiences the stars and infinity with great vividness, then despite the routine, life becomes almost enchanted. When I have a terrible need ofâshall I say the word?âreligion, then I go out at night to paint the stars.âVincent van Gogh1 ON APRIL 24, 1889, Theo van Gogh2 made the following request to the director of the Hospital of Saint-Paulâde-Mausole in Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence, France With the consent of the person concerned, who is my brother, I would like to ask you to admit to your establishment Vincent Willem van Gogh, artist, age 36, born at Groot-Sundert Netherlands, at present living in Arles. . . . As his confinement is required more to prevent a recurrence of previous attacks rather than because his mental condition is at present affected, I hope that you will find no inconvenience in granting him the liberty to paint outside the establishment when he wishes to do so. On May 8, 1889, Vincent was admitted to the hospital asylum and, on admission, was "perfectly calm and explained his case himself to the director as a man fully conscious of his condition."2 The following month, in mid June, asymptomatic, and supported by the structured life of the asylum, he painted The Starry Night. Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890, Dutch, The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas. 29 Ă 36ÂŒ in. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Vincent was initially hospitalized in Arles on December 24, 1888, after the notorious episode when he apparently threatened Gauguin with a razor and, later that night, cut off the lower part of his own left ear. He presented the ear fragment to a prostitute; much as a matador does to his lady after the death of the bull, although he had no recollection of these events. Vincent suffered 3 attacks in Arles, from December 24, 1888, to January 19, 1889, from February 4 to February 18, 1899, and February 26 to mid April 1889. Although he seemed fully recovered between episodes and was treated by a local physician, 30 citizens of Arles petitioned the mayor asking that Vincent be returned to his family or committed to an asylum stating that "he does not dispose of his full mental faculties, that he indulges in excessive drinking after which he finds himself in such a state of excitement that he does not know what he says or does and that his instability inspires public fear."2 His friend Signac reported that Vincent ate hardly anything and what he drank was always too much. After spending a day in the blazing sun he would "take his seat on the terrace of a cafĂ©. And the absinthes and brandies would follow each other in quick succession."2 During his episodes he reported both visual and auditory hallucinations, writing to his sister that he "didn't in the least know what I said, what I wanted, and what I did."1 When confronted with his neglect and alcohol use, he wrote to Theo "I admit all that, but at the same time it is true that to attain the high yellow note that I attained last summer, I had to be pretty well keyed up."1 His home in Arles was the famed "Yellow House" that he and Gauguin shared for 2 months in an aborted attempt to establish the Studio of the South. This was to be an art colony that would promulgate a new postimpressionist movement in art that would express the religious impulse with an authentic emotional immediacy and directness that they felt must be restored in the modern era. Vincent's father and grandfather were ministers in the Dutch Reform Church and, after initially failing as an art dealer he, too, had pursued the ministry and lived for a time as an evangelist until his efforts to identify with the poor and lead a Christ-like life proved too much for the authorities of the church. Subsequently, he turned away from traditional religion, preferring a religion of nature. Although stimulated toward a religious vocation by his family, Blumer3,4 suggests that his heightened religiosity might also have been linked to underlying temporal lobe epilepsy. The painting is the culmination of his examination of the night sky initiated a year earlier with Starry Night Over the RhĂŽne. An avid reader, he had written1 to his sister Anna then that he sought to reproduce in his painting the feeling that Walt Whitman elicited in him in his poetry when Whitman wrote of "the great starlit vault of heaven." The Starry Night is an imaginative reconstruction of natural images. Vincent wrote that the "imagination alone can lead us to the creation of a more exalting and consoling nature than a single brief glance at reality."5 Yet he preferred to accurately reflect nature, noting that he may "exaggerate and sometimes change a motif but in the end I never invent."5 Thus, The Starry Night depicts the eastern predawn sky as Vincent saw it from his room at Saint-RĂ©my at about 4 AM in mid June. The position of the morning star, Venus near the cyprus tree on the left, and the waning moon, with its aureole, are astronomically consistent6 with the early morning sky of June 19, 1889, the day he said he completed the The central image of interlocking clouds may be drawn from his knowledge of popular depictions of the whirlpool galaxy M51. Out of these elements, with the intervention of his imaginative genius, The Starry Night has become a visionary image with its network of pulsating white, orange, and blue stars above the village surrounded by wheat fields and an olive grove. Although the sky is in turmoil, the overall effect of the painting is an invigorating calmness. For Vincent, this may be an image of psychological mastery following the suffering that he had experienced. The cloudlike images in the center of the sky assume the archetypal form of a mandala, a symmetrical form that frequently emerges as psychological conflicts come into balance. The flaming cyprus tree dwarfs the traditional church steeple on the right. The olive trees seem to echo the undulating currents in the sky. It is as if the tidal wave of his illness represented by the turbulence in the sky and the flowing lines on earth have now been sublimated into a composition that documents his newfound stability. Yet despite the balance found here, the looming dark cypress, which is on the viewer's left, the funeral tree and symbol of death in this region of France, may portend another episode of illness. Indeed, in July, a month after completing this painting, van Gogh suffered another attack. His temperamental difficulties were a lifelong problem in his relationships with others. He was exquisitely sensitive to loss and rejection and responded with depressed moods. Epilepsy was the diagnosis he was given at the time in both Arles and Saint-RĂ©my. Blumer reviews3,4 the psychiatric aspects of temporal lobe epilepsy and applies diagnostic criteria to Vincent's illness, arguing convincingly that Vincent's presentation is consistent with the psychosis of epilepsy and interictal dysphoric disorder. It is proposed that Vincent's facial asymmetry may have resulted from a birth injury that led to mesial temporal sclerosis. The cylothymic quality of his moods has led Jamison7 to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, or at least, periods of major depression and hypomania. Arnold8 has proposed the diagnosis of acute intermittent porphyria with attacks initiated by his poor nutrition and use of absinthe, alcohol, turpentine to mix paints and clean brushes, pinene, and camphor for insomnia. Regardless of the diagnosis he received, all authors agree that his use of absinthe,8 the "cocaine of the artists of the last century,"9 may have contributed to his attacks. Because of its toxicity, absinthe was subsequently banned in France and throughout the world. A major ingredient in absinthe is alpha thujone a convulsant that blocks the Îł-aminobutyric acid type A GABAA receptor chloride It is proposed that when Vincent was released from the hospital in Arles, his return to the use of alcohol and absinthe precipitated the recurrence of his attacks. After diagnosing his condition as epilepsy, Dr Ray, his physician in Arles, used a bromide salt, the standard medication available at the time for treatment. Vincent seemed to respond and wrote to Theo that "the unbearable hallucinations have ceased, and are now reduced to simple nightmares, in consequence of taking bromide of potassium, I think."1 Potassium bromide may well have benefited him, as it functions as an anticonvulsant that also affects the GABAergic Yet when he entered the asylum in Saint-RĂ©my, his custodian physician discontinued its use. Vincent probably suffered from partial complex seizures temporal lobe epilepsy as well as a mood disorder aggravated by stress and his concerns about continued support from Theo. His illness may have been exacerbated by his chronic use of absinthe, brandy, turpentine, and camphor. Ironically, an ornamental tree, the thuja tree, Thuja occidentalis, a source for alpha thujone was planted over his grave where it remained for 15 years. 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