Starry Night Over the Rhone

The Starry Night over the Rhone is a beautiful piece by Van Gogh. The majority of the painting gives me a sense of stillness and quietness while the bottom fourth of the painting makes me feel like something is coming to disturb that stillness. From spectating the painting on the computer, I can see some of the brush strokes that Van Gogh made on the canvas. The way he painted it makes me feel like I’m looking at puzzle pieces of the world being fit together on this one canvas I think there is much

Van Gogh's painting, Starry Night Over the Rhone, was created based on his another painting, "Starry Night". It is concerning in Brian Eno and John Cale's song Spinning Away, which is from the album Wrong Way Up. These two songs seem like the other form of this painting. This was created on the bank of the Rhone River that was only couple-minute walk from the Yellow House to there on Place Lamartine. The night sky has lots of stars, and the lights were inverted reflection in water. The stars stand

hit the bank near them. The picture described may sound familiar as it is one of Vincent van Gogh’s famous paintings, Starry Night Over the Rhone. It is an oil on canvas that resides in the Musee D’Orsay in Paris, France that is 72.5 centimeters by 92 centimeters and was based on the Rhone river in Arles, France looking out at the Trinquetaille bridge. Starry Night Over the Rhone has a sister painting that resides in New York, however, it was painted during his time at the Saint-Paul Asylum in the

Norris Freeman Art Appreciation Professor Gadson 20 February 2013 Critical Analysis: Starry Night Over the Rhone Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch artist from the mid 1800’s who was considered to have created approximately 2000 artworks. Growing up, he was classified to be highly emotional and having low self-esteem. Within those depressed emotions, it helped him pioneer the path of expressionism in his art pieces. But as he got more into him artwork he came more mature with his artwork and caused

whatever he was feeling. In the middle of the night when he was sad and couldn’t sleep, he would go outside and just paint to get rid of any depressing thoughts. I saw his art the first time when I was in the doctor’s office. In my opinion, Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork is amazing. My favorite painting is “Starry Night over the Rhone.” What I see in the painting is how Van Gogh describes his sadness and some happiness due to the stars looking over the Rhone. And how the heavens and the water

contrasting colors. One of Van Gogh’s famous paintings is the Starry Night Over the Rhone, which depicts a couple taking a midnight stroll along a illuminated river. A prologue to the art of the twentieth century, Oscar- Claude Monet painted various different famous landscape projects. Considered to be one of Monet’s best-known works, Impression, Sunrise illustrates a calm early morning in the Port of Le Havre in France. Starry Night Over the Rhone and Impression, Sunrise are both similar paintings because

“The Starry Night” which was created in 1889. Van Gogh was born into a Catholic household however converted to Protestantism at a very young age and began to go on missions within the area of Southern Belgium. Van Gogh suffered several mental illnesses and was eventually sent to an asylum where he would develop and create some of his most known works such as “Cypresses” in 1889, “Country road in Provence by Night” in 1890, and various others. Originally, Van Gogh created the “Starry Night Over the

A Night to Remember Imagine the wonder of staring into a clear night sky, being able to see the stars reflecting against water and seeing the faint light of civilization in the distance. This is the same mindset that caught Van Gogh’s imagination. In fact, it excited Van Gogh so much, he would say to another painter before painting “But when shall I ever paint the Starry Sky, this painting that keeps haunting me” (Lewandowski). Starry Night Over the Rhone and Starry Night would be the culmination

The Starry Night: Focuses on the movement aspect. The Starry night is characteristic of Van Gogh as a representation of a transfigured night sky. Its rare visionary pictures inspired by religious mood. Bringing along personal meaning and as well a familiar place to him. The piece Starry Night commemorates the view Van Gogh had from his window when he was sent to an asylum. The piece conveys what I believe a reflection of Van Gogh's mental illness. Starry Night Over the Rhône: The painting can be

“Vincent (Starry, starry night)” on Youtube. I watched this video with my class in Art Appreciation at Rogers State University. In the video I listened to the song “Starry, Starry night”, as many photos of Vincent’s art passed by and it made me feel as if I was watching beautiful art pass by my eyes every second. I love most of the artwork he has done. The artworks with a lot of color and texture stand out to me the most. A painting I chose as my favorite by Vincent Van Gogh is “Starry Night Over the