Starry Night is being considered a hight of the geniality of the author.
Vincent Van Gogh was fascinated by the sky and the night. He painted Starry
Night in a few days, probably from his memory or from the window of the
Saint-Remy Hospital, we don't think he could have being out on his own.
In the Starry Night, experts believe that Vincent was representing the
Via Lactea, a scientific discovery very recent in that time. The meaning
is a crazy view from the imagination of a man who was suffering enormously,
his religious obsesion and his passion fro the night is represented in
these dark landscape, where the enormous sky almost falls on top of the
sleeping town. The composition of the painting is done by a genious, the
spiral colours white and yellow around the stars, the vertical lines (the
cypress and the tower of the church) cut softly the painting, without taking
your atention of the important sky. It is almost like a pray for hope,
how in the big dark night you could still see the light in the windows
in the little houses, the stars turn bright and in the dark night is always
a little light to see and follow.
Watching the painting you can almost feel the silence of the night.
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