starry night

  • The Making of a Masterpiece: Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night
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    The Making of a Masterpiece: Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night

    The Starry Night is considered to be Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece, painted while he was a patient in a mental asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The swirling composition of the sky and the melancholic blue color palette, coupled with Van Gogh’s tragic history, have caused the artwork to become one of the most recognizable paintings of all time. There is so much…