van Gogh « Starlight Night» – original painting in high resolution: cost and description of the great work of art. The price of the original of this painting, according to preliminary estimates, is about 300 million dollars. This is one of the most expensive paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, which, however, is unlikely to ever be sold. Since 1941 the painting has been in the Museum contemporary art
New York City under heavy security, attracting the attention of thousands of connoisseurs. The genius of the picture lies in the amazing dynamism of the starry sky, the deep and reasonable ease of movement of the heavenly bodies. At the same time, the serene town located in the panorama below looks heavy, calm, like the sea in cloudy weather. The harmony of the picture is a combination of light and heavy, earthly and heavenly. Since not everyone can afford to go to New York to look at the original, last years
Many artists appeared who very well repeated the work of the great maestro of expressionism. You can buy a copy of Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night" for about 300 euros - on real canvas, made in oil. The price of cheaper copies is from 20 euros, they are usually made by printing. Of course, even a very good copy does not give the same sensations as the original. Why? Because Van Gogh used some special swirls of colors. Moreover, in a completely atypical way. It is they who give the picture dynamics. How he achieved this is very difficult to say; most likely, Van Gogh himself did not know about it. At that time, he was treated in a mental hospital, having problems with damage to the temporal region of the brain. Probably his mind was “damaged” by his genius, but it is extremely difficult to repeat the technique of painting this picture.
Lovers of creativity, science fiction, as well as...religious people are very fond of placing copies of the painting “Starry Night” in the interior. Van Gogh himself said that the painting was painted under the influence of religious sentiments that were atypical for him. This is evidenced by 11 luminaries that can be seen on the canvas. Philosophers and art lovers also find a lot of hidden meaning in the layout of the picture. It is possible that the secret of “Starry Night” will be at least partially revealed over time, since, knowing the characteristics of the artist’s nature, it is extremely difficult to imagine that he simply painted an image from his head.
Van Gogh Starry Night, the original painting in good resolution, even on a computer screen, can captivate the viewer’s attention for a long time.
Plot
Night enveloped the imaginary city. In the foreground are cypress trees. These trees, with their gloomy dark green foliage, symbolized sadness and death in the ancient tradition. (It is no coincidence that cypress trees are often planted in cemeteries.) In the Christian tradition, cypress is a symbol eternal life. (This tree grew in the Garden of Eden and, presumably, Noah's Ark was built from it.) In Van Gogh, the cypress plays both roles: the sadness of the artist, who will soon commit suicide, and the eternity of the universe running.
Self-portrait. Saint-Rémy, September 1889
To show movement, to add dynamics to the frozen night, Van Gogh came up with a special technique - when painting the moon, stars, sky, he laid strokes in a circle. This, combined with color transitions, creates the impression that the light is spilling.
Context
Vincent painted the painting in 1889 at the Saint-Paul Mental Hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It was a period of remission, so Van Gogh asked to go to his workshop in Arles. But city residents signed a petition demanding that the artist be expelled from the city. “Dear mayor,” the document says, “we, the undersigned, would like to draw your attention to the fact that this Dutch artist(Vincent Van Gogh) has lost his mind and drinks too much. And when he gets drunk, he molests women and children.” Van Gogh will never return to Arles.
Drawing en plein air at night fascinated the artist. The depiction of color was of paramount importance to Vincent: even in letters to his brother Theo, he often described objects using different colors. Less than a year before Starry Night, he wrote Starry Night over the Rhone, in which he experimented with the rendering of the colors of the night sky and artificial lighting, which was a novelty at that time.
"Starry Night over the Rhone", 1888
The fate of the artist
Van Gogh lived 37 turbulent and tragic years. Growing up as a disliked child, who was perceived as a son who was born instead of his older brother, who died a year before the boy was born, the severity of his father-pastor, poverty - all this affected Van Gogh’s psyche.
Not knowing what to devote himself to, Vincent could not finish his studies anywhere: either he quit, or he was kicked out for his violent antics and sloppy appearance. Painting was an escape from the depression Van Gogh faced after his failures with women and his failed careers as a dealer and missionary.
Van Gogh also refused to study to become an artist, believing that he could master everything on his own. However, it was not so easy - Vincent never learned to draw a person. His paintings attracted attention, but were not in demand. Disappointed and saddened, Vincent left for Arles with the intention of creating the “Workshop of the South” - a kind of brotherhood of like-minded artists working for future generations. It was then that Van Gogh's style took shape, which is known today and was described by the artist himself as follows: “Instead of trying to accurately depict what is in front of my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily, so as to express myself more fully.”
, 1890
In Arles, the artist lived a voracious life in every sense. He wrote a lot and drank a lot. Drunk brawls were scary local residents, who eventually even asked to expel the artist from the city. The famous incident with Gauguin also took place in Arles, when after another quarrel Van Gogh attacked his friend with a razor in his hands, and then, either as a sign of repentance or another attack, cut off his earlobe. All the circumstances are still unknown. However, the day after this incident, Vincent was taken to a hospital, and Gauguin left. They never met again.
During the last 2.5 months of his torn life, Van Gogh painted 80 paintings. And the doctor completely believed that everything was fine with Vincent. But one evening he locked himself in his room and did not come out for a long time. Neighbors, who suspected something was wrong, opened the door and found Van Gogh with a bullet through his chest. They failed to help him - the 37-year-old artist died.
The painting “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh is considered by many to be the pinnacle of expressionism. It is curious that the artist himself considered it an extremely unsuccessful work, and it was written at the moment of the master’s mental discord. What is so unusual about this painting? Let’s try to figure it out later in the review.
Van Gogh wrote Starry Night in a mental hospital
Self-portrait with a cut off ear and a pipe. Van Gogh, 1889. The moment of creating the painting was preceded by a difficult emotional period in the artist’s life. A few months earlier, his friend Paul Gauguin came to Van Gogh in Arles to exchange paintings and experiences. But a fruitful creative tandem did not work out, and after a couple of months the artists finally fell out. In the heat of emotional distress, Van Gogh cut off his earlobe and took it to a brothel to the prostitute Rachel, who favored Gauguin. This was done with a bull defeated in a bullfight. The matador received the cut off ear of the animal. Gauguin left soon after this, and Van Gogh's brother Theo, seeing his condition, sent the unfortunate man to a hospital for the mentally ill in Saint-Rémy. It was there that the expressionist created his famous painting. "Starry Night" is a fake landscape
Starlight Night. Van Gogh, 1889. Researchers are trying in vain to figure out which constellation is depicted in Van Gogh’s painting. The artist took the plot from his imagination. Theo agreed at the clinic that a separate room would be allocated for his brother, where he could create, but the mentally ill would not be allowed outside. Turbulence in the sky
Flood. Leonardo da Vinci, 1517-1518 Either a heightened perception of the world, or the discovery of a sixth sense, forced the artist to depict turbulence. At that time, eddy currents could not be seen with the naked eye. Although 4 centuries before Van Gogh, another brilliant artist Leonardo da Vinci depicted a similar phenomenon. The artist considered his painting extremely unsuccessful
Starlight Night. Fragment. Vincent Van Gogh believed that his “Starry Night” was not the best painting, because it was not painted from life, which was very important to him. When the painting came to the exhibition, the artist rather dismissively said about it: “Maybe it will show others how to depict night effects better than I did.” However, for the expressionists, who believed that the most important thing was the manifestation of feelings, “Starry Night” became almost an icon. Van Gogh created another "Starry Night"
Starry night over the Rhone. Van Gogh. There was another Starry Night in Van Gogh's collection. The stunning landscape cannot leave anyone indifferent. After creating this painting, the artist himself wrote to his brother Theo: “Why bright stars in the sky cannot be more important than the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, so we die to reach the stars." Starry Sky by Vincent Van Gogh
As long as a person has existed, he has been attracted by the starry sky.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman sage, said that “if there was only one place on earth from which the stars could be observed, people would continuously flock to it from all over.”
Artists captured the starry sky on their canvases, and poets dedicated many poems to it.
Paintings Vincent Van Gogh so bright and unusual that they surprise and are remembered forever. And Van Gogh’s “star” paintings are simply mesmerizing. He managed to unsurpassedly depict the night sky and the extraordinary radiance of the stars.
Night terrace cafe
"Cafe Terrace at Night" was painted by the artist in Arles in September 1888. Vincent van Gogh hated everyday life, and in this painting he masterfully overcomes it.
As he later wrote to his brother:
“The night is much more vibrant and richer in colors than the day.”
I hate you new picture, depicting the outside of one night cafe: tiny figures of people drinking on the terrace, a huge yellow lantern illuminates the terrace, house and sidewalk, and even gives some brightness to the pavement, which is painted in pinkish-purple tones. The triangular gables of buildings on a street running into the distance under a blue sky strewn with stars seem dark blue or purple ... "
van Gogh Stars over the Rhone
Starry night over the Rhone
Amazing picture Van Gogh! The night sky above the city of Arles in France is depicted.
What better way to reflect eternity than the night and starry sky? 
The artist needs nature, real stars and the sky. And then he attaches a candle to his straw hat, collects brushes and paints and goes out to the banks of the Rhone to paint night landscapes...
Perspective of Arles at night. Above him are the seven stars of the Big Dipper, seven small suns, shading the depths of the firmament with their radiance. The stars are so distant, but so accessible; they are part of Eternity, since they have always been here, unlike the city lamps, pouring their artificial light into the dark waters of the Rhone. The flow of the river slowly but surely dissolves the earthly lights and carries them away. Two boats at the pier invite you to follow, but people do not notice the earth signs, their faces are turned upward, to the starry sky.
Van Gogh's paintings inspire poets:
From a white pinch of underwing down
Having painted a wandering angel with his brush,
He will then pay with a cut off ear
And he will pay with black madness later,
And now he will come out, loaded with an easel,
To the shore of the blackening slow Rhone,
Almost a stranger to the chilly wind
And almost a stranger to the human world.
He will touch you with a special, alien brush
Colorful oil on a flat palette
And, not recognizing the learned truths,
He will draw his own world, filled with lights.
A heavenly colander, weighed down with radiance,
Will shed golden paths in a hurry
Into the cold Rhone flowing in the pit
Its shores and guarded prohibitions.
A stroke on the canvas - I would like to stay like that,
But he won't write with an underwing pinch
For me - only the night and the wet sky,
And the stars, and the Rhone, and the pier, and the boats,
And the reflection of light paths in the water,
The night city lights are involved
To the dizziness that arose in the sky,
Which will be equal to happiness...
...But He and She are the foreground, coupled with lies,
Return to the warmth and have a glass of absinthe
They will smile kindly, having learned the impossibility
Vincent's crazy and stellar insights.
Solyanova-Leventhal
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Starlight Night
Vincent Van Gogh made “truth” his rule and the highest standard, the depiction of life as it really is.
But Van Gogh's own vision is so unusual that the world ceases to be ordinary, excites and shocks.
Van Gogh's night sky is not just dotted with sparks of stars, it is swirling with vortices, the movement of stars and galaxies, full mysterious life, expression.
Never, looking into the night sky with the naked eye, will you see the movement (of galaxies? of stellar wind?) that the artist saw. 
Van Gogh wanted to depict a starry night as an example of the power of imagination, which can create more amazing nature than what we can perceive when looking at the real world. Vincent wrote to his brother Theo: "I still need religion. That's why I left the house at night and started drawing stars."
This picture arose entirely in his imagination. Two giant nebulae are intertwined; eleven hypertrophied stars, surrounded by a halo of light, break through the night sky; on the right is a surreal moon orange color, as if combined with the sun.
In the picture, man’s aspirations towards the incomprehensible - the stars - are opposed space force. The impetuosity and expressive power of the image are enhanced by the abundance of dynamic brushstrokes.
The cart wheel was spinning and creaking.
And they twirled around him in unison
Galaxies, stars, Earth and Moon.
And a butterfly near a silent window,
By creating this picture, the artist is trying to give vent to the overwhelming struggle of feelings.
“I paid with my life for my work, and it cost me half my sanity.” Vincent Van Gogh.
“Looking at the stars always makes me dream. I ask myself: why should bright spots on the sky be less accessible to us than black spots on a map of France? - wrote Van Gogh.
The artist told his dream to the canvas, and now the viewer is surprised and dreams, looking at the stars painted by Van Gogh. Van Gogh's original Starry Night adorns the hall of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Anyone who wants to interpret this painting by Van Gogh in a modern way can find there a comet, a spiral galaxy, a supernova remnant - the Crab Nebula...
Poems inspired by Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night"
Come on Van Gogh
Wind up the constellations.
Give these colors a brush
Light a cigarette.
Bend your back, slave,
Bowing to the abyss
the sweetest of torments,
until dawn...
Yakov Rabiner
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How did you guess, my Van Gogh,
How did you guess these colors?
Smears magical dances -
It's like a stream of eternity.
Planets for you, my Van Gogh,
Spinning like fortune telling saucers,
Revealed the secrets of the universe,
Giving obsession a sip.
You created your world like a god.
Your world is a sunflower, sky, colors,
The pain of a wound under a blind bandage...
My fantastic Van Gogh.
Laura Treen
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Road with cypress trees and a star
“A night sky with a thin crescent moon barely peeking out from the thick shadow cast by the earth, and an exaggeratedly bright, soft pink-green star in an ultramarine sky where clouds float. Below is a road bordered by tall yellow reeds, behind which one can see the low blue Lesser Alps, an old inn with orange-lit windows and a very tall, straight, gloomy cypress tree. On the road there are two belated passers-by and a yellow cart harnessed to White horse. The picture as a whole is very romantic, and you can feel Provence in it.” Vincent Van Gogh. 
Each pictorial zone is made using a special character of strokes: thick - in the sky, sinuous, superimposed parallel to each other - on the ground and writhing like tongues of flame - in the image of cypress trees. All elements of the picture merge into a single space, pulsating with the tension of forms.
The road going into the sky
And a nagging thread along it
The loneliness of all his days.
Silence of the purple night
Like the sound of a hundred thousand orchestras,
Like a prayer revelation
Like a breath of eternity...
In a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Only a starry night and the road...
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After all, hundreds of night suns and day moons
They promised indirect roads...
…Hangs by herself (and doesn’t need tape)
Of the large stars, Vangogh's night
Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh. 1889. Oil on canvas. 73.7x92.1
There is no artist in the world who is not attracted by the starry sky. The author has repeatedly turned to this romantic and mysterious object.
The master was cramped within real world. He considered that it was his imagination, the play of his imagination, that was necessary for a more complete image. It is known that by the time the painting was created, the author was undergoing another course of treatment; he was allowed to work only if his condition improved. The artist was deprived of the opportunity to create on location. He created many works during this period (including Starry Night) from memory.
Powerful, expressive strokes, thick colors, complex composition - everything in this picture is designed to be perceived from a great distance.
In an amazing way, the author managed to separate the sky from the Earth. One gets the impression that active movement in the sky does not in any way affect what is happening on the ground. Below is a sleepy town, ready to fall into a peaceful sleep. Above are powerful streams, huge stars and incessant movement.
The light in the work comes precisely from the stars and the moon, but its direction is indirect. Glare illuminating night city, look random, broken off from the general powerful vortex reigning over the world.
Between heaven and earth, connecting them, the cypress grows, eternal, undying. The tree is important for the author; it is the only one capable of transmitting all the heavenly energy to those living on earth. The cypress trees strive for the sky, their aspiration is so strong that it seems that in another second the trees will part with the earth for the sake of the sky. The centuries-old branches directed upward look like tongues of green flame.
A combination of rich blue and yellow flowers, a well-known heraldic combination, creates a special atmosphere, fascinates and attracts attention to the work.
The artist repeatedly turned to the night sky. IN famous work“Sky over the Rhone” the master does not yet take such a radical and expressive approach to depicting the sky.
Many people interpret the symbolic meaning of the painting in different ways. Some are inclined to see in the picture a direct quote from the Old Testament or Revelation. Some consider the excessive expressiveness of the painting to be the result of the master’s illness. Everyone agrees on one thing: towards the end of his life, the master only increases the internal tension of his works. The world is distorted in the artist’s perception, it ceases to be the same, new forms, lines and new emotions, stronger and more accurate, are discovered in it. The master draws the viewer's attention to those fantasies that make the world around him more vibrant and unconventional.
Today this particular work has become one of Van Gogh's most recognizable works. The painting is in an American museum, but the painting comes to Europe regularly and is exhibited in largest museums Old World.
