Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night

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Rijana Radoncic
Kingsborough Community College
Art 3100 Descriptive Paper
November 12th 2015

Vincent Van Gough is known for his very famous oil on canvas still life landscape painting “The Starry Night”, created in 1889, which can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art. Vincent Van Gough was an expressionist painter, and “The Starry Night” is definitely an example of the expressionist time period, which was known for exaggerating aspects of the form in a painting to attract emotions rather than reasons. Vincant Van Gough was a dutch artist who had a huge impact on 20th century art, he was known for his dramatic still life paintings, landscapes. and portraits.

When I look at “The Starry Night” painting a lot of things about the image attract

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