notte stellata di vincent van gogh

Musèe d'Orsay-Parigi

starry night on the rhone

Water:The water mirrors the vastness of the sky; the reflexes of the lights into the water creates a sense of depth, which also corresponds to that of the sky. All the various nuancees of blue are rendered with thick strokes of the brush

Vincent Van Gogh

Information:Painter:Vincent Van Gogh Year: 1888 Technique: Oil painting on canvas location: Musèe d'Orsay;Parigi Dimensions: 72.5 x 92 cm

The Rhone:

It originates in the Alps and runs West and South to discharge into the Mediterranean sea in the Camargue region. In 2008 a problem of pollution emerged in the Rhone, whereby a substance heavily used in the past in industrial activities was found. As a consequence, the government banned the consumption of fish from the entire french course of the Rhone. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/feb/23/pollution.water

Description:

In this painting Van Gogh represents a vision of the night sky with an almost romantic sensibility: the stars are bright and mysterious; they suggest the immensity of the sky, and make the two lovers on the shore look small and almost invisible. We can also notice the contrast between the romantic light of the stars and the violent light of the city.

Story:

This painting was realized around the end of september of 1888 after several drafts and also after many letters to his brother Theo where he spoke about his wish to immortalize the nocturne sky.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 march of 1853 in Zundert, a little Dutch city. He thaught himself to paint as a child, but he created his most important works in the last two years of life. He painted still lifes, self portraits, and land scapes.In 1886 he went to paris, where he learned to use color and the brushstroke.For all his life he was the classic "misunderstood artist", mainly due to his mental disorder: he probably suffered from bipolarism and depression, which at the time were not understood as specific problems and were either just mistaken for bad temper or "cured" in mental hospitals. This condition, on the other and, granted him an extraordinary sensitivity that we can see in his painting, for he tried to represent not what he saw but what he felt in that moment. He died suicide in 1890. Only after his death he obtained the recognition he deserved and his paintings became famous worldwide.

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