The Starry Night

smoothness. The texture symbolizes my imperfections, because I am not flawless. As much as I want life to go smoothly, there is no avoiding the rough patches. The left hand side of the mask is my depiction of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous art piece, “The Starry Night”. This represents my liking of art. While Van Gogh’s art does not inspire my art itself, I do like his impressionistic art style. Another reason why I chose this painting for my mask is because of the swirling wind patterns and…

himself by cutting off his ear and dropped it off at a brothel, the house the woman stayed at. The next day he was sent to a mental asylum in Arles called, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The following night, he looked out his window at the village down below and started to paint the view. This is how The Starry Night came to be (Lego 2013). With the ear incident and him struggling with mental health his entire life, I feel like when he was staring at that window he saw a sign of hope as he painted the…

Best phrased by surgeon, author, and inventor Leonard Shlain in his book, Art & Physics, “Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.” However dissimilar Vincent van Gough’s Starry Night may seem from Isaac Newton’s second law of motion, according to Shlain, this is what fundamentally unifies the two subjects. Physics is the study of the natural world, while art is the representation of it. Art has been part of our culture longer than any of the…

seem absurd or even erroneous, but that’s the truth behind each poem I’m submitting, they’re spontaneous without any exact aim other than to dispose of an emotion or answer a question resulting from my musings. These are by no means a written “Starry Night” or a mosaic from ancient Greece but each is more of a basic sketch for the reader to find their own answers to questions they find themselves having or to set an example for a reader’s thoughts and actions. The Bernadette Mayer Experiment…

High above me, the last of the morning stars are winking out sadly. They flash their last bling-silver grains of sand in the dawn sky. I sigh as their bejewelled brilliance fade into nothingness. The afternoon sky has already painted Van Gough’s Starry Night, as orbs of light swirl in the lavender and blue canvas. A ghostly, winter moon hangs there, imitating a pale strobe light. A corona of shimmering yellow rings it 's dying glory. The sky around it is a wide sheet of grate-grey, hemmed in the…

“Starry Night” is a poem by Anne Sexton that was written to show her own analysis of the painting by Vincent van Gogh which holds the same name. While the painting is a beautiful work in itself, Sexton’s poem provides details that accentuates the painting. Sexton’s interpretation of the painting is completely angled toward a beautiful death experience. Sexton’s poem is filled with imagery, figurative language, and diction that brings more life and understanding to the painting. Anne Sexton…

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…

movies were Academy Award winners. As far as it is known, supposedly this artist sold only one painting in his lifetime. His most celebrated art work is “The Starry Night” and this painting became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1941. Painting by candlelight To be able to paint late into the night Van Gogh supposedly the artist painted with candles lining the brim of this straw hat. You might think that is not possible but it has been accepted as…

drawings, of which he sold less than half-dozen in his lifetime." (Fiero, 2011) In this paper, the life of Vincent van Gogh will be addressed up until the point of his demise. Within this discussion, one of the most recognizable paintings titled "The Starry Night," will be analyzed for each eye capturing point it is believed to express. Van Gogh is one of the most recognized artists to be known for his mysterious and misconceived personas. Much myth and negativity have to be encircled around…

In 1889, a Dutch painter by the name of Vincent van Gogh created this piece called Wheat Field with Cypresses. This painting's medium was oil on canvas and had a dimension of 28 7/8 x 36 ¾ in. A Cypress is an evergreen coniferous tree in which van Gogh loved to capture and paint landscapes with the trees in it. He considered this to one of the best summer landscapes. An element found in this piece by Vincent van Gogh is line. Lines are all over in this piece and the lines connect to each other…