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Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night

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Mesmerizing, unique, and brilliant are just some of the many descriptions Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. Created in June of 1889, by the Dutch post-impressionist painter, van Gogh used oil paint on canvas to create this masterpiece. Gogh’s Starry Night is a landscape painting which is focused in three different parts: the sky, the mountains, and the town. He focused on the color blue throughout the painting from the sky to the mountains, but he also added a hint of yellow emitted by the stars and the moon and the bold blacks and dark reds of the cypress tree on the left. The sky is filled with numerous shades of blue and bright shining stars as well as the illuminating moon. The mountains are painted with strokes of blue, which creates the

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