The Starry Night By Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who painted several pieces of art that have become world famous and have been showed around the world; one being The Starry Night. Van Gogh at the time of this painting was in an Asylum after being in a long depression, and this is believed to be the view from his window. The painting displays a village over a night sky with an immense cypress tree in comparison to the other objects in this paining. Also shown is many stars in the sky with a very bright moon the top right-hand corner of this painting. Van Gogh was an artist that was primarily self-taught and he showed his emotions, and feelings through his artwork. In The Starry Night there is an abundant amount of dark colors that are being used that can be related to the emotional state that Van Gogh was in at this moment in his life. The painting is said to be the view from his window in the asylum that he stayed in. The assumption can be made that the dark colors, and the night sky represent him being in a depressed emotion with not much to look forward to. In the painting there also appears to be wind in the air that is depicted as swirls from the left of the painting towards the middle. The wind
Whitney writes “In the sky, we see the stars of the Big Dipper - or the Great Bear, as van Gogh referred to the grouping” (354.) Mr. Whitney creates this idea, and it can easily be agreed upon. The star constellation provide light for Van Gogh to see at night, and in a way be the lights at the end of a tunnel. The painting also shows a large cypress tree that takes up a large part of the image on the left side. The tree appears to be tall and strong, something that Van Gogh aspires to be. The cypress tree paired with the starry sky would represent Van Gogh by showing that even in a dark and gloomy village he could grow emotionally to be a confident and stable man despite to conditions that challenges that he had to come