Vincent Van Gogh's A Starry Night

"A Starry Night" shows a lot of emotions and great piece of work by Vincent Van Gogh. With brush strokes of thick paint, called impasto according to the textbook, van Gogh invented rhythms that convey his intense feelings. In 1889, during the Post-impression movement van Gogh created one of the most famous pieces of artwork with his oil on canvas “The Starry Night”. The piece captures the best use of line, shape, mass, space, motion, texture and color. Van Gogh had a talent like no other, which pulled you into his works of art. "The starry sky painted by night, actually under a gas jet. The sky is aquamarine, the water is royal blue, the ground is mauve. The town is blue and purple. The gas is yellow and the reflections are russet …show more content…
Van Gogh also uses these Principals of Art: contrast, proportion, pattern/rhythm, movement. Van Gogh emphasizes on the strange tree with heavy black color and uses bright orange/yellow to frame the stars and the moon. When I first glanced at this painting, my eyes directed/focused on the tree, traveled across the landscape, grazed the stars and the swirling wind and landed on the moon. It was only then that I noticed the little village below the sky. Van Gogh uses the darkest color on the black tree on top of the swirling wind to make it 'pop' out of the painting. Shape Van Gogh used organic shapes: Swirling wind, Black tree, Stars and moon. Rolling hills Color Van Gogh uses specific shades of colors throughout his whole painting, such as Shades of blue, Black and brown, All shades of white, cream, yellow and orange. Van Gogh uses Organic Lines in his painting to illustrate the swirling wind, rolling hills and the texture of the sky. Van Gogh used texture to define parts of his painting. The materials he used adds structure to the surface and creates feeling and depth along with the colors. Contrast In the painting, Van Gogh used contrasting colors to make parts of the painting "pop out" and stand out from the