Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night(created after the painting), Reed Pen and Pencil, 18.5 x 25.5 inches, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, Museum of Architecture (?), Moscow, Russia Starry Night, Oil on Canvas, 29x36.25 inches, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, MoMa Letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo Van Gogh (excerpt) June 17 or 18, 1889 ...At last I have a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky . Though I have not seen either Gauguin's or Bernard's last canvases, I am pretty well convinced that these two studies I've spoken of are parallel in feeling. When you have looked at these two studies for some time, and that of the ivy as well, it will perhaps give you some idea, better than words could, of the things that Gauguin and Bernard and I sometimes used to talk about, and which we've thought about a good deal; it is not a return to the romantic or to religious ideas, no. Nevertheless, by going the way of Delacroix, more than is apparent, by colour and a more spontane...
