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The View Of The Starry Night

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I found this reading very interesting because three years ago I went to the MoMA and I had the opportunity to appreciate this piece. I was amazed by the colors, the texture and the visual effects, but I never thought about a religious meaning, nor I was familiar with the artist during that time. This reading really help me to understand the painting in depth, and how everything in the composition it’s important and meaningful. It is very interesting the conceptual history of the painting, when and how Van Gogh’s ideas were developed. He really wanted to paint an starry sky, but not in a conventional way. Neither the Cafe Terrace at Night, nor the Starry Night Over the Rhone, both painted in 1888, fulfill his vision of an starry night. This might be because he visualized his piece over a landscape and as an imaginative work, not a descriptive one.

Furthermore, the circumstantial history, when and where it was done and what what the sources were, of the Starry Night is equally interesting. This part of the panting history starts at Van Gogh’s asylum room at St. Remy on May 1889. The mere scene is not an actual representation, but a product of Van Gogh’s imagination and memory. It has been shown that beneath the actual cell of the asylum there was an enclosed field, but in the painting Van Gogh depicted cypresses and an idealized village. Another major transformation in the painting is the church. St. Martin, the church in St. Remy, has a dome; nevertheless, the church on the

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