The document discusses Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting 'The Starry Night', created in 1889 while he was in an asylum. It explores the emotional language, technical challenges, and the unique nighttime depiction of a village from his observations, emphasizing how Van Gogh's innovative techniques contributed to modern painting. The painting is acclaimed as his magnum opus, reflecting his mental struggles and artistic expression, and has profoundly influenced subsequent generations and movements in art.

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● INTRODUCTION:starry night hidden message
○ SOME ADDITIONAL KNOWLADGE :starry night hidden message

2. ○ THEIR THINKING
● ABOUT Van Gogh: starry night hidden message
● SOME FAMOUS LINES BY THEM: starry night hidden message
○ A rare night landscape
■ SOME EXTRA POINTS:-
○ Technical challenges
■ SOME EXTRA POINTS:-
○ Location
○ The colors of the night sky
○ Invention, remembrance and observation
INTRODUCTION:STARRY NIGHT HIDDEN
MESSAGE
The Starry Night painting is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist
painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing
window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the
addition of an imaginary village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
Widely regarded as Van Gogh’s magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of the most
recognizable paintings in Western art. let’s discover starry night hidden message.
SOME ADDITIONAL KNOWLADGE :starry night hidden message
In creating this image of the night sky—dominated by the bright moon at right and
Venus at center left—van Gogh heralded modern painting’s new embrace of mood,
expression, symbol, and sentiment. Inspired by the view from his window at the
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where the artist
spent twelve months in 1889–90 seeking reprieve from his mental illnesses, The Starry
Night (made in mid-June) is both an exercise in observation and a clear departure from
it.

3. The vision took place at night, yet the painting, among hundreds of artworks van Gogh
made that year, was created in several sessions during the day, under entirely different
atmospheric conditions. The picturesque village nestled below the hills was based on
other views—it could not be seen from his window—and the cypress at left appears
much closer than it was. And although certain features of the sky have been
reconstructed as observed, the artist altered celestial shapes and added a sense of
glow.
THEIR THINKING
Van Gogh assigned an emotional language to night and nature that took them far from
their actual appearances. Dominated by vivid blues and yellows applied with gestural
verve and immediacy, The Starry Night also demonstrates how inseparable van Gogh’s
vision was from the new procedures of painting he had devised, in which color and paint
describe a world outside the artwork even as they telegraph their own status as, merely,
color and paint.
ABOUT VAN GOGH: STARRY NIGHT HIDDEN
MESSAGE
Starry Night depicts a dreamy interpretation of the artist’s asylum room’s sweeping view
of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Though Van Gogh revisited this scene in his work on
several occasions, “Starry Night” is the only nocturnal study of the view. Thus, in
addition to descriptions evident in the myriad of letters he wrote to his brother, Theo, it
offers a rare nighttime glimpse into what the artist saw while in isolation. “Through the
iron-barred window I can make out a square of wheat in an enclosure,” he wrote in May
of 1889, “above which in the morning I see the sunrise in its glory.”
An end-of-the-world cataclysm invades Van Gogh’s Starry Night, one of apocalypse
filled with melting aerolites and comets adrift. One has the impression that the artist has
expelled his inner conflict onto a canvas. Everything here is brewed in a huge cosmic
fusion. The sole exception is the village in the foreground with its architectural elements.

4. REAL PAINTING
SOME FAMOUS LINES BY THEM: STARRY NIGHT
HIDDEN MESSAGE
“Why, I say to myself, should the spots of light in the firmament be less accessible to us
than the black spots on the map of France?… Just as we take the train to go to
Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to go to a star.”

5. “I have done another landscape with olive trees, and a new study of the ‘starry sky’.
Although I have not seen the new pictures by Gauguin and Bernard, I am fairly certain
that these two studies are similarly conceived. When you see them some time […] I
shall be able to give you a better idea of the things Gauguin, Bernard and I often used
to talk about and occupy ourselves with than I can do in words; it is not a return to
Romanticism or to religious ideas, no. But via Delacroixone can express more of Nature
and the country, by means of colour and an individual drawing style, than might appear.”
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A rare night landscape
The curving, swirling lines of hills, mountains, and sky, the brilliantly contrasting blues
and yellows, the large, flame-like cypress trees, and the thickly layered brushstrokes of
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night are ingrained in the minds of many as an
expression of the artist’s turbulent state-of-mind. Van Gogh’s canvas is indeed an
exceptional work of art, not only in terms of its quality but also within the artist’s oeuvre,
since in comparison to favored subjects like irises, sunflowers, or wheat fields, night
landscapes are rare. Nevertheless, it is surprising that The Starry Night has become so
well known. Van Gogh mentioned it briefly in his letters as a simple “study of night” or
”night effect.”
SOME EXTRA POINTS:-
His brother Theo, manager of a Parisian art gallery and a gifted connoisseur of
contemporary art, was unimpressed, telling Vincent, “I clearly sense what preoccupies
you in the new canvases like the village in the moonlight… but I feel that the search for
style takes away the real sentiment of things” (813, 22 October 1889). Although Theo
van Gogh felt that the painting ultimately pushed style too far at the expense of true
emotive substance, the work has become iconic of individualized expression in modern
landscape paintings.

6. Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888, oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm
(Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Technical challenges
Van Gogh had had the subject of a blue night sky dotted with yellow stars in mind for
many months before he painted The Starry Night in late June or early July of 1889. It
presented a few technical challenges he wished to confront—namely the use of
contrasting color and the complications of painting en plein air (outdoors) at night—and
he referenced it repeatedly in letters to family and friends as a promising if problematic
theme. “A starry sky, for example, well – it’s a thing that I’d like to try to do,” Van Gogh
confessed to the painter Emile Bernard in the spring of 1888, “but how to arrive at that
unless I decide to work at home and from the imagination?” (596, 12 April 1888).

7. SOME EXTRA POINTS:-
As an artist devoted to working whenever possible from prints and illustrations or
outside in front of the landscape he was depicting, the idea of painting an invented
scene from imagination troubled Van Gogh. When he did paint a first example of the full
night sky in Starry Night over the Rhône (1888, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 92 cm, Musée
d’Orsay, Paris), an image of the French city of Arles at night, the work was completed
outdoors with the help of gas lamplight, but evidence suggests that his second Starry
Night was created largely if not exclusively in the studio.
Location
Following the dramatic end to his short-lived collaboration with the painter Paul Gauguin
in Arles in 1888 and the infamous breakdown during which he mutilated part of his own
ear, Van Gogh was ultimately hospitalized at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, an asylum and
clinic for the mentally ill near the village of Saint-Rémy. During his convalescence there,
Van Gogh was encouraged to paint, though he rarely ventured more than a few hundred
yards from the asylum’s walls.

8. Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy, France (photo: Emdee, CC BY-SA 3.0)
The colors of the night sky
On the other hand, The Starry Night evidences Van Gogh’s extended observation of the
night sky. After leaving Paris for more rural areas in southern France, Van Gogh was
able to spend hours contemplating the stars without interference from gas or electric city
street lights, which were increasingly in use by the late nineteenth century. “This
morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing
but the morning star, which looked very big” 777, c. 31 May – 6 June 1889). As he wrote
to his sister Willemien van Gogh from Arles,Van Gogh followed his own advice, and his
canvas demonstrates the wide variety of colors he perceived on clear nights.
Invention, remembrance and observation

9. Impasto and brush strokes (detail), Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, oil on
canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photo: Steven Zucker,
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Arguably, it is this rich mixture of invention, remembrance, and observation combined
with Van Gogh’s use of simplified forms, thick impasto, and boldly contrasting colors that
has made the work so compelling to subsequent generations of viewers as well as to
other artists. Inspiring and encouraging others is precisely what Van Gogh sought to
achieve with his night scenes.
When Starry Night over the Rhône was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, an
important and influential venue for vanguard artists in Paris, in 1889, Vincent told Theo
he hoped that it “might give others the idea of doing night effects better than I do.” The
Starry Night, his own subsequent “night effect,” became a foundational image for
Expressionism as well as perhaps the most famous painting in Van Gogh’s oeuvre.