Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night 1889

The starry night is an oil on canvas by the dutch post impressionist painter vincent van gogh.

Vincent van gogh the starry night 1889. 3 the window to which he refers was in the saint paul asylum in saint rémy in southern france where he sought respite from his emotional suffering while continuing to make art. The starry night is an oil on canvas painting by dutch post impressionist painter vincent van gogh. Printed in the usa. Vincent van gogh painted starry night in 1889 during his stay at the asylum of saint paul de mausole near saint rémy de provence.

17 inches x 11 inches 24 inches x 16 inches 36 inches x 24 inches. 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 idealized village. 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. 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.

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. And i think one would be able to speculate rather than being a portrait of what one might see looking at a night sky in the summer of 1889. The work was not well known when the museum of modern art moma purchased it in 1941 but it soon became one of van gogh s most famous works. The starry night an abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village by dutch artist vincent van gogh in 1889.

This morning i saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise with nothing but the morning star which looked very big wrote van gogh to his brother theo describing his inspiration for one of his best known paintings the starry night 1889. Van gogh spent a year in a mental hospital there making more than 150 paintings depicting the hospital grounds and surrounding landscape. He was allowed more freedoms than any of the other patients. 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.

The story of starry night. Vincent van gogh the starry night saint rémy june 1889.