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The Starry Night over the Rhone - Van Gogh

The Starry Night over the Rhone , 1888

Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 95 cm

Vincent Van Gogh, Musée d'Orsay.

"Finally, the starry sky painted on the very night"

Interest light. Night lights, stars and gas lights reflected on the Rhone Arles stand out and are protagonists of the picture. Meanwhile, two figures in the foreground favor the composition, giving it depth, and adding secondary meaning to the work, because we know they are two lovers by the words of Vincent, but if we look closely we see that this pair is an elderly couple walking with difficulty and is supported on one another to stand and continue their march, love in its less romantic-archetypal stage, I mean, but equally or more true and sensible. Meanwhile, behind them, the light show that happens Van Gogh plasma with its palette of blues, greens and yellows. In the cobalt blue sky lie the stars surrounded by a halo that enhances and highlights, see the Big Dipper, a dark sky lit only by moonlight where the clouds are less dense. The stroke is very particular, loose bound and expressive, with a large color domain. Vincent's painting is not motivated by hallucinations of a schizophrenic or influenced by the attacks of madness, because during these crises confesses that he is unable to create, so rather his work is the result of an extraordinarily sensitive man who knew how to apply color like no other at the time. And here is the result: the stars, light and landscape under the cover at night.

And now the words of Vincent on his picture, describing to his brother Theo in a letter:

"I enclose here a sketch of a 30-square canvas, at last, the starry sky painted on the same night under a gaslight. The sky is blue green water is royal blue, purple land.

The city is blue and violet light is yellow gas and reflexes are red gold and bronze down to the green. In the blue sky green field, the Big Dipper has a green glow Pink, whose slightly pale gold in contrast to the gas hard.

Two colored figurines of lovers in the foreground. "

"try this ... I work hard, which does not preclude having a terrible need for" Shall I say the word? "- Of religion, then, at night, I'm going outside to paint the stars ..."

Lovers

gas lights and buildings of Arles on the Rhone

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