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Timeless body arts10/29/2022 ![]() Among those was a smaller series, centered around the wooden Japanese footbridge and the pond beneath, which we can admire in The Water Lily Pond. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star.”Īll this makes The Starry Night at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan something to behold.ĭuring the last thirty years of his life, impressionist Claude Monet drew inspiration from the landscape around his property in Giverny, especially his water gardens, giving birth to the famous Water Lilies paintings. Those trees are generally associated with death and cemeteries, and what Van Gogh once said about stars puts everything into an eerie perspective: “ Looking at the stars always makes me dream. His ability to portray luminance is characteristic of the impressionism artistic movement and is what gives the painting its distinctive glow, like it’s actually pulsing with light.Īs if the story behind the painting wasn’t enough to envelop its beauty with a mystic layer, the big cypress tree in the foreground that rises to the night skies is by far not coincidental. The artist left out the bars and focused on the night’s vibrant beauty, which he seems to have always felt a special affinity for. It actually depicts Van Gogh’s view from the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum near Saint-Remy-de-Provence where the artist checked himself in after suffering a mental breakdown and famously cutting off his own ear. ![]() The Starry Night hardly needs an introduction, but here’s ours anyway: Vincent Van Gogh’s most signature masterpiece and an international symbol of art a beautiful island of serenity, floating amidst a sea of torment inside a mad genius’ mind. It’s an intimate experience like none other, an almost surreal synchronization of your energy combined with the artist’s in a perfect moment in time. But for many true art lovers, like myself, experiencing an original in person is like looking at the world from the same, unique vantage point from which the artist once saw something nobody else could. For the casual observer, this might be irrelevant, and therefore a search for their original source – pointless. ![]() ![]() Certain art pieces are imbued with so much history, culture, emotion, and life that even the most exact replica couldn’t pin down their exact essence. ![]()
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