The Starry Night, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Vincent van Gogh (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France) Dutch painter, generally considered the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists.Van Gogh's rolling night sky full of bright stars is probably one of the world's most famous artworks. The Starry Night's home is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But how did it get there? Photo of the young Jo van Gogh - Bonger. Vincent sold only a handful of artworks during his lifetime
Most of his contemporaries made fun of his paintings and never tried to understand it. 9. He was influenced by Japanese art. Vincent Van Gogh, Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom (1890) In 1890, he wrote to his family about his painting Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom. In this letter, he explained how Japanese art had influenced him.
Like Starry Night by Van Gogh, Munch's Starry Night, 1893 also endows his nocturnal landscapes with animistic qualities. Sky, water, and earth, divided yet rejoined in a larger unity, are the subject of this work.
From a painting that was supposedly just a study of a starry night to becoming an overnight Vincent van Gogh the artist was named after his older stillborn brother Vincent, who was in turn named after their grandfather. Another of van Gogh’s brothers, Theo, fathered a son – whom he named Vincent Willem van Gogh. 2. Van Gogh likely suffered from multiple mental illnesses. One of van Gogh’s earlier works, titled The Potato Eaters scZ7p.