Dutch painter Vincent Van Gough and The Starry Night
Vincent Van Gough created The Starry Night, an oil on canvas measuring 73.7 x 92.1 cm (29 x 361/4 in), which is housed in The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Van Gough's Challenging Life
In comparison to other artists in this sector, Vincent Van Gough's life was challenging. Despite all, he is praised for his own work. In addition to experiencing a difficult life, most of his artistic creations were initially rejected before becoming welcomed, valued, and recognized. Hence, he is among the world’s famous group of artist known as Avant-garde.
The Expressive Capabilities of The Starry Night
The Starry Night is an exploration of the expressive capabilities of the formal elements in life unlike other paintings which are more of analytical and abstractness facets of arts. The piece expresses more of modernism; the birth and dawn of new era in impressionism in life and the art’s world.
Van Gough's Unique Color Choices
Van Gough’s preference and choice of color in the Starry Night is very specific, clear, and precise. However, after the colors are applied on the canvas they decode a different but unique message when compared to how other painters who have used the similar colors. Furthermore, the painting’s texture reveals that Van Gough used brushstrokes and wet paints. Thus, the technique employed is impasto: most of the oil on canvas pieces were performed using the impasto technique.
Intense Feelings and Emotions
The painting shares an intense magnitude of feelings and emotions about rare, particular, and exceptional night overflowing with twirling clouds, shining stars and a lustrous crescent moon. This reveals that Van Gough is absolutely aware of the Starry Night pictogram. The contours lines between the stars and clouds acknowledge the realism motion of life’s continuity. The stars contours curve incomplete visual axis along the paintings lines. The fluidity of the painting is enhanced with paradoxical representation of the transition and interaction between light and dark using yellow, blue, and white colors. Moreover, the contours also play a basic role in ensuring fluidity and mosaic density of the painting’s nature.
The Village and Solitude in The Starry Night
Van Gough uses dark colors to paint show a village with brightly colored windows. The village is peaceful and silent, like an ease pillars of solitude sheltered from the Starry Night. The steeple outdoes the village, thus showing a sense of loneliness. The two; village and steeple share a touch of life in the painting.
Nature's Beauty and the Balanced Existence
The use of yellow and white color cast almost spiral effects, hence the birth of sky. The tone of vertical lines such as cypress tree and church tower softly interfere with the ultimo composition with minimal disturbances on the quiet night. The background blue color is used to amplify the fact it’s a moonlight night on the painting. In the left foreground there is a curvy cypress tree painted similar to the sky fluid lines. The painting’s tree emphasizes the beauty of nature and balanced environmental existence.
The Symbolism of Bright Colors and Starry Messages
There are characters and symbols present in the painting. Van Gough uses bright yellow color to appreciate the moon’s light in untamed and wild night. The expression of bright color in the dark village symbolizes the presence of life in the painting. Unlike, other paintings The Starry Night’s sky texture is friendly and calm thus a full promise of hope, redemption, and salvation. The stars in the painting shout a message: light will always lead one home. In addition to light being a source direction, it also represents knowledge and mystery of humanity.
The Realism of The Starry Night
The painting’s objects and characters are real, even though it did not originate from memory. Hence, the painting is prove statue of realism at time none was understandable and explainable in the world. The mystery behind the origin of The Starry Night lead to invention a lot of postulates and theories from scholars and theorists. Moreover, there is no imagination considered ass source of inspiration to the painting’s origin, thus The Starry Night is not an abstraction piece. However, the characters present in the painting and the painting are source of inspiration for many poets (Kaye, Stella).
The Beauty and Mystery of The Starry Night
The painting is the last amazing character: the crescent moon, the stars, the sky and the village; these are an essential reflection pieces of life’s definition and meaning. The Starry Night casts unique impression far great from reality of what is hoped in valid dreams rather than imaginations. This is life we all hope for after life in a turmoil. Imagination can be created and sourced however dreams are entitlements of impressions in our current unworthy and worst state. Lastly, the metamorphic painting’s character expresses a person antagonistic dark and light sides’ interaction as unbalanced and unequal.
The Mystery and Beauty of The Starry Night
Finally, the painting’s mystery to everyone makes it one of the top pieces of arts in the world. The combination of realism with impressionism in the painting triggers a unique sense of belonging to the view, hence making The Starry Night such a mind blowing piece. The absence of abstractionism and total imagination unmasks the beauty of creation without delusion in arts, hence more mysteries. Thus, The Starry Night is a favorite piece of painting with untold preview of the origin.
Works Cited
Kaye, Stella. ‘’Starry, Starry Night”. Hubpages, 2017,
http://hubpages.com/education/Starry-starry-nights.
