Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night

The Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night was painted during the Post Impressionism time period in June 1889. The Starry Night was painted from Van Gogh’s memory from the mental asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Van Gogh suffered from multiply psychotic episodes during the last two years of his extraordinary life, and committed suicide at the age of 37. Van Gogh enjoyed painting landscapes that reflected his own emotions and soul. This might explain why the emotional impact of the artwork is so much more powerful than many of Van Gogh's other works from the same period. The first thing that I notice is overpowering nigh sky that takes up the majority of the background. The soft and smooth lines that form the swirls and spiral in the background forms a lazy and tired mood. However, if you direct your eye to the right side of the painting you will feel wide awake because of the bright yet dull stars. The cool blue night sky contrasts with the yellow fireball like stars illuminates the entire painting. The construction of the village is old fashioned and simple and there being no light highlights the village, gives the effect that everyone in the village is probably asleep. The little house represent the world that Van Gogh couldn't visit because of his mental disorder he was trapped in the mental asylum. That

Van Gogh painted the moon and stars so large that it feels like they will fall out of the painting any second. The tall like cypress trees on the left offers a disturbance to the rest of the painting. It has a snaky form that breaks the balance of the painting. Many art critics say that Van Gogh deliberately painted the cypress trees in such a prominent position. In the center of the painting there is a church, it appears to struggle to point to God, but the little church is dwarfed by the cypress trees at the