"It would be so simple and would account so much for the terrible things in life, which now amaze and wound us so, if life had yet another hemisphere, invisible it is true, but where one lands when one dies. "Through the iron-barred window," he wrote to his brother, Theo, around 23 May 1889, "I can see an enclosed square of wheat ... above which, in the morning, I watch the sun rise in all its glory. La nuit étoilée [Starry Night] From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of "night effects". [22] He recounts Van Gogh's interest in the writings of Victor Hugo and Jules Verne as possible inspiration for his belief in an afterlife on stars or planets. The village is painted with dark colors but … In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: "I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat." [1] After reporting that he had painted a starry sky in June, Van Gogh next mentioned the painting in a letter to Theo on or about 20 September 1889, when he included it in a list of paintings he was sending to his brother in Paris, referring to it as a "night study. "[2][L 2], Van Gogh depicted the view at different times of the day and under various weather conditions, such as the sunrise, moonrise, sunshine-filled days, overcast days, windy days, and one day with rain. Art historian Ronald Pickvance says that with "its arbitrary collage of separate motifs," The Starry Night "is overtly stamped as an 'abstraction'. "[44] Schapiro theorizes that the "hidden content"[44] of the work makes reference to the New Testament book of Revelation, revealing an "apocalyptic theme of the woman in pain of birth, girded with the sun and moon and crowned with stars, whose newborn child is threatened by the dragon. Such a compression of depth serves to enhance the brightness of the planet. [18] (It was the mistral which triggered his first breakdown after entering the asylum, in July 1889, less than a month after painting The Starry Night. A doomed painter's madness or a carefully planned strategy?More on http://www.artsleuth.net But death was not ominous for van Gogh. For the similar 1888 Van Gogh painting, see. "[43], Noted art historian Meyer Schapiro highlights the expressionistic aspects of The Starry Night, saying it was created under the "pressure of feeling" and that it is a "visionary [painting] inspired by a religious mood. The Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh was already interested in the idea of painting a starry night in 1888 as expressed in several letters to his friends and brother. It seems that van Gogh is contrasting life and death with luminous stars and a gloomy, peaceful village. [14] During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the Irises from May 1889, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the blue self-portrait from September, 1889, in the Musée d'Orsay. "[81] On that day in mid-June, in a "state of heightened reality," with all the other elements of the painting in place,[82] Van Gogh threw himself into the painting of the stars, producing, they write, "a night sky unlike any other the world had ever seen with ordinary eyes. [citation needed], One of the first paintings of the view was F611 Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Rémy, now in Copenhagen. "[76] (The painting he is referring to is La Berceuse, which is a realistic portrait of Augustine Roulin with an imaginative floral background.) First understand the difference between the Louvre and the Paris Orsay Museum. . "[38] Although at this point in his life Van Gogh was disillusioned by religion,[39][40] he appears not to have lost his belief in an afterlife. 24x36. Schapiro refers to the cypress in the painting as a "vague symbol of a human striving. The setting is one that viewers can relate to and van Gogh´s swirling sky directs the viewer´s eye around the painting, with spacing between the stars and the curving contours creating a dot-to-dot effect. 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