Annotated bibliography for Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.

Gogh, Vincent, Sjraar Heugten, Joachim Pissarro, Chris Stolwijk, Geeta Bruin, Maite Dijk, and Jennifer Field are a few artists who come to mind. The colors of the night and Van Gogh. 2008, New York: Museum of Modern Art Print.
The Museum of Modern Art released this book with the goal of inspiring and transferring Vincent van Gogh's style to other painters (Gogh et al. 67). For this reason, the authors of this book concentrate on Vincent Van Gogh's depictions of nocturnal and twilight scenes, Van Gogh and the colors of the night that determine the artistic night landscapes, interior sections, and presentation of effects of both the gas light and natural light on their surroundings. It comprises of over one hundred artworks including the details of Van Gogh’s iconic artworks and paintings by other artists who are considered to be essential to the development of his style (Gogh et al. 81).

Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist. New York: Random House Children's Books, 2009. Internet resource.

According to this source, great painters possess great techniques that constitute a lot to the modern styles of painting. While painting one needs to have an idea, in what way the paint will be communicating to the audience. Greenberg and Sandra further posit that when an artist illustrates his or her idea in a different matter, he or she is likely to come up with a style that other painters adopt in their work (Greenberg and Sandra 81). Vincent Van Gogh just like many other artists became prominent owing to his unique style of communicating ideas through his painting. In this credible source, Vincent Van Gogh contribution to his style is well demarcated as an Art historian and as a conversation scientist. Through these two means, Vincent Van Gogh’s identified his vision and pursued it. Therefore, this book illustrates more than one hundred painting how Vincent van Gogh realized his vision of man nature through allusive, economical manner of painting.

Kodera, Tsukasa. Vincent Van Gogh: Christianity versus Nature. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co, 1990. Print.

In this source, Kodera accounts for the formative years that Vincent van Gogh used to communicate some of his ideology regarding religion and nature, which he mentions to be one of the fundamental ways that he came up with his style. Even though there are critics, which have always divorced the subject matter and the painter’s new style from the city’s unique pictorial and cultural traditions. In Vincent van Gogh paintings, Christianity and nature have been an emphasis as they play a crucial role to determines one ideology hence, style (Kodera 71). Therefore, Vincent Van Gogh was satisfied with such essential questions like that of religion as well as nature. This book, therefore, offers a close reading of personal paintings about their critical context, historical framework, as well as early receptions. Through this strategy, Kodera demonstrates some of the well-known masterpieces as well as fluid binderies between modern forms of visual expression and great Art.

Meekern, Erwin. Starry Starry Night: Life and Psychitric History of Vincent van Gogh. Amsterdam: Benecke, 2003. Print.

According to Meekern (49), Art has evolved over time and understanding some of the drifts that it has taken over the years provides a good background for upcoming painters. Meekern provides a consisted history of the world Art as a means to reveal how Art reflects and participates in the artist’s views of the world in with they live. Taking into account of the trends through the prehistoric world to the twentieth century, Meekern accounts for some of the credible styles including that of Vincent van Gogh’s. Just like other Art authors, Meekern emphasise that any piece of work usually has an idea, which it communicates to the audience. The mode and the way the idea is represented in Art may matter depending on one’s technique that will make a given paint to gain fame. If many people are attracted with the strategy, it can be adopted as a method just like Vincent Van Gogh’s.

Thomson, Richard. Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. Print.

Based on this source, a leading authority of the Vincent van Gogh deliberates his enigmatic artistic experience and explores the mysteries presented by his works. According to Thomson, the paintings collected in this book were written primarily to provide instructions that one can use to come up with their piece of art but with Vincent van Gogh’s style (Thomson 991). Thomson goes ahead to illustrate some of the challenges that artists face while learning a particular technique, which provides them with a better framework for interpreting painter’s style. Conversely, they discuss attributions and the associated issues of Vincent van Gogh’s innovative strategy.

Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Place of publication not identified: Dover Publications, 2014. Print.

According to this source, there are procedures that one can follow to master a particular style of painting just like that of Vincent van Gogh. This source goes ahead to give out some of the procedures one can follow to come up with ‘Starry Night’ of their own if not a faithful product of arts that would be similar to Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece (Van 89). Therefore, Thomason features on some of the dramatic landscapes paintings with foreground items detached and transformed into individual stickers. Artists can always rely on this source whenever they need to learn some of the key concepts and aspects that were used by Vincent van Gogh while setting up with his arts.