Van Gogh Starry Night Analysis

To start, van Gogh’s depiction of a landscape is different and similar to what I thought a landscape would look like. I imagine a landscape to be sunny and have a pretty sky with bright colors such as reds, oranges, and yellows. Also, I imagine buildings and homes to be in a landscape. To add, green grass and rolling hills would be beautiful in a landscape. Basically, I think of a landscape to make someone feel happy. My thoughts of a landscape are similar to van Gogh’s because he has buildings, houses and rolling hills in his landscape. My thoughts differ because his landscape is dark and also at night where as I picture a landscape being during the day or at sunset. Also, in his landscape I can’t tell if there is any grass which leaves me thinking if there was grass or not. When I think of a town without grass I think of a desert and a dry environment. After reading the biography of van Gogh, he suffered depression so I am assuming that is why his picture is very dark. To add, this picture makes me feel gloomy with all the dark colors. What else I am confused about is on the left side of the paper the black figure, it …show more content…
Post-impressionism is a realistic idea but shapes, colors, texture, and lines are not very realistic. For example, the stars in van Gogh’s painting are not realistic because of the color and texture. To me when I think of star I think of yellow instead most of the stars are white. Also, the stars look as if they have rough texture, normally when we see stars in the sky we can’t tell what their texture is. The lines in the sky are drawn is a way that reminds us of movement. Even though the sky is moving, we can’t tell at night because of the darkness. The odd shaped figure to the left also shows the idea of post-impressionism because most of us can’t exactly tell what the shape is. van Gogh’s Starry Night is a great representation of