Accordingly, there was a tonal shift in his work. He returned to incorporating the darker colors from the beginning of his career and Starry Night is a wonderful example of that shift. Blue dominates the painting, blending hills into the sky. The little village lays at the base in the painting in browns, greys, and blues. Even though each building is clearly outlined in black, the yellow and white of the stars and the moon stand out against the sky, drawing the eyes to the sky.
They are the big attention grabber of the painting. Shop Our Christmas Cards. Notice the brush strokes. For the sky they swirl, each dab of color rolling with the clouds around the stars and moon.
On the cypress tree they bend with the curve of the branches. The whole effect is ethereal and dreamlike. The hills easily roll down into the little village below. In contrast, the town is straight up and down, done with rigid lines that interrupt the flow of the brush strokes.
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The artist is looking down on a village from an imaginary viewpoint. It is framed by his newly-discovered motifs: at left a cypress towers skywards, at right a group of olive trees cluster into the cloud, and against the horizon run the undulating waves of the Alpilles. Van Gogh's treatment of his motifs prompts associations with fire, mist and the sea,and the elemental power of the natural scene combines with the intangible cosmic drama of the stars.
The eternal natural universe cradles the human settlement idyllically, yet also surrounds it menacingly. The village itself might be anywhere, Saint-Remy or Nuenen recalled in a nocturnal mood. The church spire seems to be stretching up into the elements, at once an antenna and a lightning conductor, like some kind of provincial Eiffel Tower the fascination of which was never far from van Gogh's nocturnes.
Van Gogh's mountains and trees particularly the cypresses had hardly been discovered but they seemed to crackle with an electric charge. Confident that he had grasped their natural appearance, van Gogh set out to remake their image in the service of the symbolic.
Together with the firmament, these landscape features are singing the praises of Creation in this painting. I have done another landscape with olive trees, and a new study of the 'starry sky'. Although I have not seen the new pictures by Gauguin and Bernard, I am fairly certain that these two studies are similarly conceived.
When you see them some time [ But via Delacroixone can express more of Nature and the country, by means of colour and an individual drawing style, than might appear.
First, his synthesis of motifs was his first echo of work with Gauguin since his breakdown. The night stars scene this is something that had only just become important to Van Gogh offers the visual imagination its most distinctive, unique field of activity, since the lack of light requires the compensatory use of visual memory.
Van Gogh used the memory method in his nocturnal scene; his discovery of the luminous power of darkness was a personal aesthetic discovery and needed no Gauguin as catalyst. Third, he was searching for the essence of the landscape, its very being - a way of registering its symbolic power, its vitality, its flux and constancy, all in one.
Interpretations of this Van Gogh night stars painting are legion.
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