Starry Night Over the Rhone

The Starry Night is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as a part of their permanent collection and depicts Van Gogh’s view from the window of his asylum room at the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Hospital near Arles, France, in which he had admitted himself to after a series of seizures. Included in his view is an idealized village engulfed in a swirling, star-filled night sky that appears to be on fires, surrounded by dark towering…

("Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890"). After years of delirium and hallucinations, he shot himself, which led to an infection and a tragic death. Throughout the last two years of his life, he created his most famous paintings such as The Starry Night (1889), Red Vineyards (1888), and The Night Café (1888).…

As I burrow down deep within the wild green grass, I look up at the enchanted wonderland, we call the sky. The only thing that protects me from the world and it’s night crawlers are the light that comes from the starry night and the omniscient moon. As I gaze upon the worlds true beauty and what it has to offer, I divulge into my sanity, “ I want to help people, whether they are senile or an adolescent, I want to be the helping hand people need.” I wanted to be the people’s “remedy.” Ever since…

In the original painting the dark colors show that it is night, but because I used bright colors it looks like the day. To show that it is night time in my drawing I added a clock. I wanted it to be night like the original drawing because New York is known as the city that never sleeps and I wanted to encourage that. I also added letters on the sign. I wrote “New York City” because…

In 1798 a well-known poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. The poem was contained in a poem collage by Coleridge and William Wordsworth called the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge is known for the Romantic influence in his writings: “Coleridge achieved wonder by the frank violation of natural laws, impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature).…

Spanning the years 1765 to 1769, the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze painted The Dreamer in oil on canvas. His painting, The Dreamer is a beautiful example of Greuze’s talent in portraying emotion by successfully combining the elements of art which enhance the mood of the image. Greuze creates a well constructed composition through the use of line, color and light to convey the state of being at rest and nearing a peaceful slumber. His use of smooth, flowing lines which curve with the…

A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to. The idea of Starry Night was over a “land scape and not a town.” (Soth) He wrote to his brother Theo about his vision of what he thought about what he saw outside…

The Starry night by Anne Sexton is a lot deeper than you might think when you first read it. To really understand the way Sexton writes you must first know more about her back story. It explains in the beginning that she was a troubled housewife that later committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. IN which, If you know anything about Van Gogh (The artist of the painting Sexton writes about) her death is similar to how he also committed suicide. This poem is both simple and complex due to…

If you would pick two of the most well-known artists in recent history, surely the names Matisse and Vincent van Gogh would make the list. Both of these artists are well-known for their style, technique and use of color. However they couldn’t be more different when it comes to some of their paintings, such as Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom and Matisses The Red Studio. There is a vanishing points in order to portray a specific perspective on the audience, is done so for two very different means.…

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,…