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    The Starry Night The starry night is painting by Vincent van Goh done in 1889. The painting is inspired by the night view. It is a painting that was done by oil on canvas just as the way traditional paintings are done. However, the starry night was not painted at night as expected. It was done during day using van Goh’s imagination. According to van Goh, he always expressed his liking to draw a painting portraying the sky at night. Van Goh’s works on the starry night was inspired by the night skies

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    Composition The night sky portrayed by van Gogh in the Starry Night painting is filled with whirling clouds, shining stars, and a bright sickle-shaped moon. The setting is one so that viewers can relate to and van Gogh´s swirling sky directs the viewer´s eye around the painting, with spacing between the stars and the curving silhouette creating a dot-to-dot effect. These internal elements secure the fluidity and such silhouette was important for the artist even though they became less significant

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    Starry Night Analysis

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    A Starry Night Starry Night by the renowned artist Vincent van Gogh has a significant meaning. Aside from the beautiful sea blue colors mixed with the sunny bright yellows, the graceful and thick brush strokes and meanings behind the colors tells a story of hope and passion. This masterpiece was painted by Van Gogh in 1889 while he was receiving treatment in Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a mental asylum. The beautiful painting that many people have come to love today was never appreciated during its own

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    The Starry Night is one of the most famous paintings in the history of western culture. It was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889 and is recognized as his finest work. This artwork is oil on canvas and is currently in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. An interesting fact about the artwork is that it is painted from Van Gogh’s memory, unlike his other works which are painted outdoor. This painting is the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Reme-de-Provence. The view includes

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    Description: Van Gogh painted more than 10 paintings of olive trees, which was mostly in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France in 1889. The painting of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape was complementary to The Starry Night. The landscapes are in a pattern of curves as painting from The Starry Night. Van Gogh’s unique painting technique, impasto was used. The characteristic style of divisionism is used by painting multiple strokes with varieties of colors. It is decided character of each horizontal zone

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    The Starry Night Poem Analysis The Starry Night, written by Anne Sexton, makes me think about raging fires, destruction, death, hell, and demons. The word choice in the poem is very colorful, yet overwhelming and dark, which perplexes, yet astonishes the reader. This poem feels very depressing, but on the contrary, active and raging with life. The sky is alive and intense, yet the town is silent and solemn. The idea of a monstrous death is welcoming and yearned for by the speaker. The poem feels

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    Comparative study The starry night (Van Gogh) The persistence of memory (Dali) Invader (ongoing since 1998) Starry night: The starry night is a painting that was made by Vincent van Gogh. It’s a landscape painting made in June of 1889. It’s an oil painting on a canvas that he painted while in an asylum after he had a breakdown in 1888. He painted the starry night while he inside of the asylum that he voluntarily went to. The starry night is one of many versions of the paintings he made. He made

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    draws my attention so much-"The Starry Night." Vincent Willem Van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is a post-impressionist painter whose work is famous for its beauty, emotion and color and is deeply influenced by the art of the twentieth century. He struggled with mental illness and has been poor and almost unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died of self-harm in France at the age of 37(Biography). In 1889, he created this outstanding work, “The Starry Night” in Saint-Rémy, France, in 1889

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    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

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    plagiarised because then is is not original or unique meaning it is not creative. Next, art can be popular but not biased on a small group. Finally, art can also have masterful technique but cannot be sloppy. With all of this in mind, an evaluation of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh will show that it is a piece of art. A closer look at creativity indicates that it is present in painting. For example, going back to what I said in the previous paragraph on how the painting is unique because it is easily recognizable;

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