Can you describe this painting?

Question

This is the starry night by Van Gogh. Please describe this painting in your own words for i would like to copare your thoughts on this painting to mine. Thanks

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Answer 1

The guy's soul is bleeding. He's exploding into stars. He loves all mankind and is making a desperate stab to embrace them and have them know him and love him back for who he is. Emotionally, it is as naked as art gets.

Of course, it is impossible to know much about van Gogh and look at his career and lifes work in other than tragic, searchingly desperate terms.

Answer 2

My personal interpretation is that he was imagining what was to come. The Morning Star, glowing large and bright was symbolic of van Goghs inner response to nature. The Earth, which is calm below and the heavens which dominate the painting is the majesty. The artsist liked to imagine & to dream. He wanted to escape the harshness of the earth & the world as it is and renew his mind & soul directed to eternal life in the majestical heavens.
I love art and art history. I studied it in high school and in college.



THis is a good critics outline to follow if you are doing this for an assignment.
Find the credit line for “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh to answer questions 1 & 2
1. What medium was used to create this painting?
2. How big is the Painting?
3. Look at how the Paint was applied to the canvas. What do you see?
4. Now describe everything you see in the painting. To help you organize your thoughts, start by listing the things you recognize in the foreground. Then list the things you see in the middle ground, the background, and the sky.
Analysis: How Is the Work Organized?
Before you study the way van Gogh uses the design principle of rhythm, look at the different elements of art he uses. Notice the lines. (Rhythm- is the regular repetition of elements, patterns, or movements in a work of art.)
5. Which line direction seems to dominate?
6. What is unusual about the way lines appear in this work?
7. Where do you find the brightest colors?
8. Is van Gogh trying to imitate the real textures of the objects?
9. Does the texture of the brush strokes show?
10. What elements and objects are used as visual rhythms in this work? Describe them.
Continues on the backside…
11. Which area of the painting shows the most movement?
Interpretation: What is Happening What Is the Artist Trying to Say?
The subject matter of this painting alone is unimportant. But the way van Gogh has included the elements of art and organized them using the principle of rhythm tells you a great deal about his feelings.
12. Which part of the painting is alive with dancing rhythms?
13. Which part is calmest?
14. Write a short paragraph explaining your interpretation or the meaning behind the painting.
Judgment: What Do You Think of the Work?
15. Do you like the subject matter of this work? Why or why not?
16. Does this painting touch your feelings? Why or why not?
17. Do you feel that van Gogh created a successful painting? Why or why not?
18. Which one or more of the three aesthetic theories of art are you using to give your judgment? Circle it below!
• Imatationalism - believe that art should imitate what we see in the real world. Realistic looking subjects are the main importance of finding the artwork successful.
• Formalism - believe a work of art is successful if the elements and principles are organized properly.
• Emotionalism - believe that the most important part of a work of art is the mood or feeling it communicates or arouses in the viewer.

Answer 3

Just remember that Van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889, while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy and, unlike most of Van Gogh's works, it was painted from memory and not outdoors.

I think the secret is there: memory in an altered mind of an already "expressionist" painter.

That's the trick, that's the beauty... it is magic, illusion, folly.

Just have a look at Vincent's two other starry nigths, painted in more "normal" way (by his standards).

Answer 4

to me, starry night by Van Gogh is brush strokes of relaxation. the painting forms together by the night sky, the buildings, and the stars. to me, i could say it is a form of sadness, willowing around the night air, depressing everything, but making it relaxed all the same. :)

Answer 5

This is an example of early Expressionism. The over sized stars convey the experience of being outside in the country at night--something modern city dwellers don't understand.

It really does look like the stars are coming down to hit you. I've been in the desert; this painting conveys that feeling to me.

Answer 6

Famous. Trippy. Every inch of the canvas was caressed in such a way it makes me wonder if Mr. Van Gogh was crying when he painted it.

Answer 7

I have the feeling of the winds of change moving over the sleepy community when I view this painting....as if, no matter how time marches on, the people of this small town will remain unmoved. Shielded from the changes of the world, as well as blocked from progress, by the dark tower of complacency and the surrounding mountains.

Answer 8

its elegant

Answer 9

not gud