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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.
ing the painting of Starry Night, demonstrated his highly engaged understanding of art: in terms of his own picture-making practice, and in relation to the contemporary artists whom he admired and the art of the past that he revered. Van Gogh’s thinking—whether articulated pictorially in paintings and drawings or verbally in correspondence—
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.
Yet it was in Saint Rémy, in June 1889, that Van Gogh devoted an entire canvas to his nocturnal vision with The Starry Night. In this work, the predawn sky pulses with motion: the moon and stars gleam, radiating concentric bands of yellow, pink, green, and “forget-me-not” blue light, as the space around them churns.
This poster features a reproduction of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, one of the most popular paintings in MoMA's collection.
Starry Night in 3D. Explore Vincent van Gogh’s beloved painting in astonishing detail in this behind-the-scenes look at a new imaging tool.
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?
Vincent van Gogh is one of modern art’s most celebrated figures, and his painting The Starry Night is one of the touchstones of the modern period. Painted at the tumultuous end of Van Gogh’s life, his imagined firmament, executed in deep blues and brilliant yellows, continues to capture the imaginations of all who view.