Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, created The Starry Night as an oil painting on canvas. It was painted in June 1889 and features an imagined settlement in addition to the early-morning vista from his asylum room's east-facing window in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. As a result of the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, it has been a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941. The Starry Night, often regarded as Van Gogh's masterpiece, is one of the most well-known pieces in Western art. This is also one of the most famous paintings of all time.

Although Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in his ground-floor studio during the day, it would be incorrect to say that the image was created from memory. It has been determined that the scene is what Van Gogh saw out of his bedroom window, which faces east. Van Gogh painted variations of this scene no less than twenty-one times, including in The Starry Night. The scene was captured by Van Gogh at numerous times of the day and in a variety of weather situations, including the dawn, the moonrise, sunny days, cloudy days, windy days, and one day with rain.

The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh's most well-known picture, was produced by Van Gogh while he was a patient at the Saint-Rémy institution, where he had checked himself into in 1889. As the night sky comes alive with swirls and spheres of frenetically applied brush strokes arising from the yin and yang of his personal demons and awe of nature, The Starry Night does indeed seem to mirror his volatile state of mind at the time.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Created: 1889