Vincent van Gogh’s, “The Starry Night” has been recognized for several hundred years as an astonishing example of how emotions may be revealed through brushstroke texture, color, and descriptive images.
Many significant visual qualities are found throughout Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” that aid the viewer in understanding his emotional state when the portrait was painted at the asylum. A dominate form in “The Starry Night” is line. The entire image is articulated in the character of the lines swaying and curving through major line strokes that disregard any basic, clean shapes of a constant color. Most of the shapes found in this painting are undulating, repeating circles and swirls that are found in the