Starry night van Gogh

Oil on canvas 72.7 x 92.1
Modern Art Museum,
New York

Starry Night was painted in June 1889 in Saint-Remy, by Vincent Van Gogh He had "work attacks", trying to paint as much as he could because he was worried he would get worse and he could not be able to continue working.

Starry Nigh has clear a japanese influence, as Vincent Van Gogh was fascinated by the japanese engravings and stamps. The composition of Starry Night is brilliant, genial; the cypress crossing on the left an side and still not taking over the importance of the town in the background and the massive waving stars.
This painting is consider one of his masterpieces, which influenced very much the painters of the German Expressionism, as well as the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.