The Starry Night, a moderately abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village, one of Vincent van Gogh’s most celebrated works.
The oil-on-canvas painting is dominated by a night sky roiling with chromatic blue swirls, a glowing yellow crescent moon, and stars rendered as radiating orbs. One or two cypress trees, often described as flame-like, tower over the foreground to the left, their dark branches curling and swaying to the movement of the sky that they partly obscure. Amid all this animation, a structured village sits in the distance on the lower right of the canvas. Straight controlled lines make up the small cottages and the slender steeple of a church, which rises as a beacon against rolling blue hills. The glowing yellow squares of the houses suggest the welcoming lights of peaceful homes, creating a calm corner amid the painting’s turbulence.
The Starry Night, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The oil-on-canvas painting is dominated by a night sky roiling with chromatic blue swirls, a glowing yellow crescent moon, and stars rendered as radiating orbs.
Andrea del Verrocchio, Boudin, Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelliare some of the people that influenced Michelangelo's early works of art.
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