Analysis of Van Gogh's Starry Night Essay

The artwork I chose to imagine is Van Gogh’s famous oil painting called Starry Night. It was painted in June of 1889 and has grown to be known as one of his most famous paintings. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist and painted Starry Night from memory in his apartment. The view is of a village from a window in an asylum. I chose this painting because it has always been hanging in my Aunt’s living room. I would sleep over there during the summer since I was about two years old for a about a week at a time. Since I was little I remember starring at the painting. I was always the first one up in the mornings and I would just lay in the living room and stare at the painting. My views on the painting changed as I grew up. Now, when I look at the painting I think back to the summers I spent with my Aunt. When I was five years old I use to look at the photo and imagine myself in a castle overlooking the village. My favorite princess was Sleeping Beauty, so I would always imagine myself as her.…

Have you ever looked at a painting and thought, what is this suppose to be? What is the artist trying to express in this painting? All paintings have a purpose, an expression, an inspiration, or a psychological reason behind it. Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night looks as if a young child would have drawn it as their idea of a haunted house, but it is known that this painting is the view from his window while he was locked up in an asylum during his “crazy” years. Van Gogh made most of his…

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh (1889) Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and was a post- impressionist painter whose work was known for emotions, beauty and color (Bio.com). Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Starry Night (1889) (Figure1) highly influenced the 20th century (Bio.com). Van Gogh lived a life of struggle and grew up poor and his work was not known throughout his entire lifetime but after his death became iconic (Bio.com). Van Gogh developed his love for painting from his…

Juan Linares Mr. Maust 2 February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen…

Famous Artwork The Starry Night The Starry Night is one of the most known pieces of art and has been replicated on t-shirts, mugs, towels and many other items. It is correct to state that the painting’s fame exceeds that of its artist who is not as widely known. Starry Night is Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 oil canvas painting which he painted in his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence where he had checked himself in a year earlier due to a mental breakdown. The view in this painting inspired van…

from t-shirts to coffee mugs, “Starry Night” serves as one of (if not the) most famous of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. Painted in 1889, under “a terrible need of religion” (Sund 673), the piece could very well be Van Gogh’s contemplation of death. Confirmed to have been completed sometime between June 16-18 (Whitney 356), the artist’s mental state could also have contributed to the creativity of the piece. The nature of this painting is slightly unusual for Van Gogh’s previous works because…

books. I think about my 3rd grade version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night, is in my mom’s bathroom. When I painted it as a eight-year-old I enjoyed the piece of art for its simplistic bright colors and the mere fact that because van Gogh used paint to create it, I also got to use paint. Now my feelings are mixed and they’ve changed. I’ve experienced more life and more feeling since I was eight-years-old and because of that, the way I look at The Starry Night is different. I…

Starry Night and Number One Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Jackson Pollock's Number One are two very well known paintings in the art world. Both of these pieces were painted by iconic artists who have impacted the arts, and essentially made it into what society knows it as today. Both Van Gogh and Pollock are admirable artists, especially for breaking the norms of their times with their abstract techniques. Both Starry Night and Number One were created in the 1800-1900’s time frame,…

depicted in the painting) and this is very true to our architecture firm. Our firm always give special important to the use of vibrant colors and that is the reason why the painting “Impressionism, Sunrise” with its dazzling color of the sun fit to our corporate image. Moreover, the painting “La Grenouillere” depicts luxury (“La Grenouillere, 1869), and this is also one aspect on which our firm focuses thoroughly. So, this painting too, fits to our firm’s corporate image. Again, Georges Seurat’s…

The formal analysis of an artwork is important when organizing visual information. It is the techniques used to help decipher what is seen into written words. The concepts of formal analysis can be used with any work of art, no matter the time-period, whether it be a painting, sculpture, or building. The Formal Elements, together, make up an artwork. The elements are shape, tone, line, form, pattern, texture, color, and composition. The way they are arranged in an art piece, governs what the…