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In creating this image of the night sky—dominated by the bright moon at right and Venus at center left—van Gogh heralded modern painting’s new embrace of mood, expression, symbol, and sentiment. Inspired by the view from his window at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where the artist spent twelve months ...
Get to know Van Gogh, listen to a security officer explain why she loves working next to this painting, and explore The Starry Night through other features, including an introductory video, an interactive 3D rendering, and a cosmologist’s take on the painting’s famous sky.
Curator, Ann Temkin: What's remarkable about The Starry Night is the depiction of the sky itself. We have an intensely turbulent, vibrant, excited, agitated night sky. The stars have radiating concentric rings of light. The moon has the same set of rings around it.
without doubt, vincent van gogh’s painting the starry night (fig. 1) is an iconic image of modern culture. One of the beacons of The Museum of Modern Art, every day it draws thousands of visitors who want to gaze at it, be instructed about it, or be photographed in front of it. The picture has a far-flung and flexible identity in our collective
The ideal way to see Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is in person, right in front of it, on the fifth floor of MoMA. But we in the Imaging and Visual Resources (IVR) department recently found ourselves asking the question, What is the ideal way to capture The Starry Night as an image?
The Starry Night is inspired by the view from Vincent van Gogh’s window at an asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where he spent a year receiving treatment for mental illness. The painting is both an exercise in observation and a departure from it.
There is hardly an introduction that does Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) justice. It is one of the most recognizable and beloved artworks in the world, and for many MoMA visitors, it is the artwork to see—a celebrity perhaps signifying modern art itself.
MoMA Exclusive: This 1000-piece Van Gogh Jigsaw Puzzle features a reproduction of his artwork The Starry Night (1889), a work in MoMA’s collection. One of Van Gogh’s most well-known paintings, The Starry Night depicts the view from the artist’s window in the Saint-Paul asylum in the French countryside “a long time bef.
The perfect accessory to pick up your spirits on a gloomy day, this eye-catching umbrella features dazzling imagery from Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece The Starry Night, 1889, in MoMA's collection. Features a navy-blue polyester exterior and an aluminum shaft with a rubber-coated handle.
The second is one of the most famous and beloved pictures at MoMA, one known to art lovers throughout the world: The Starry Night. In that iconic scene, the nighttime sky is packed to bursting with an array of celestial forms, their halos seeming to pulse with light.