Art and Culture : Artist Van Gogh Starry Night

Children interpretation of Starry Night @ Mum N Kids Club

Modern day Starry Night, Inspiration of a 5.5 year old Child.

Starry Night

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

🎨Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in the asylum where he was staying in Saint-Rémy, France, in 1889, the year before his death. “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” he wrote to his brother Theo.

🎨A combination of imagination, memory, emotion and observation, the oil painting on canvas depicts an expressive swirling night sky and a sleeping village, with a large flame-like cypress, thought to represent the bridge between life and death, looming in the foreground.

🎨The painting is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY.

🎨Vincent van Gogh completed more than 2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings and sketches.