Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night Over the Rhone “I do not say that my work is good, but it 's the least bad that I can do. All the rest, relations
with people is very secondary, because I have no talent for that. I can 't help it”(Editors 7). Vincent
Willem Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands and died on July 29, 1896 in
Auvers-sur-Oise France. Van Gogh had two younger brothers, Theo Van Gogh and Cornelis Vincent
Van Gogh. He also had three younger sisters Wil Van Gogh, Elisabeth Huberta Du Quesne-van Gogh
and Anna Cornelia van Gogh. Van Gogh had one other brother also named Vincent Van Gogh, that
would have been the oldest but died a little after birth. He was raised both his mother (Anna Carbentus
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Both paintings have the same subject matter that Van
Gogh was trying to accomplish. Van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” from the idea of “The Starry
Night Over the Rhone.” “He had a desire to depict accurately such observation, which he states in his
letter to his sisters in September 1888, that close attention to the night sky reveals.” “That certain stars
are citron-yellow, others have pink glow, or a green blue and forget-me-not brilliance”(Boime 3). “Van
Gogh’s work printed from the end of 1888 onwards added a whirling, spiraling, undulating use of the
line to his emphatic use of colour; attempted to articulate the mania the painter felt was besetting him; no
longer took its bearings from utopias of any kind, and was more compact and personal, though at times
it 's gesticulatory qualities seem forced”(Walther 485).
Van Gogh’s vantage point for “The Starry Night Over the Rhone” let him catch the impression
of the gas lighting beyond the shimmering blue waters of the Rhone. Van Gogh’s most importance in the
painting was the illustration of colors. A letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo van Gogh, he
with people is very secondary, because I have no talent for that. I can 't help it”(Editors 7). Vincent
Willem Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands and died on July 29, 1896 in
Auvers-sur-Oise France. Van Gogh had two younger brothers, Theo Van Gogh and Cornelis Vincent
Van Gogh. He also had three younger sisters Wil Van Gogh, Elisabeth Huberta Du Quesne-van Gogh
and Anna Cornelia van Gogh. Van Gogh had one other brother also named Vincent Van Gogh, that
would have been the oldest but died a little after birth. He was raised both his mother (Anna Carbentus
van …show more content…
Both paintings have the same subject matter that Van
Gogh was trying to accomplish. Van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” from the idea of “The Starry
Night Over the Rhone.” “He had a desire to depict accurately such observation, which he states in his
letter to his sisters in September 1888, that close attention to the night sky reveals.” “That certain stars
are citron-yellow, others have pink glow, or a green blue and forget-me-not brilliance”(Boime 3). “Van
Gogh’s work printed from the end of 1888 onwards added a whirling, spiraling, undulating use of the
line to his emphatic use of colour; attempted to articulate the mania the painter felt was besetting him; no
longer took its bearings from utopias of any kind, and was more compact and personal, though at times
it 's gesticulatory qualities seem forced”(Walther 485).
Van Gogh’s vantage point for “The Starry Night Over the Rhone” let him catch the impression
of the gas lighting beyond the shimmering blue waters of the Rhone. Van Gogh’s most importance in the
painting was the illustration of colors. A letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo van Gogh, he