Starry Night Painted
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night from the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, creating one of art's most iconic images.
In June 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. The painting depicts the view from his east-facing window at night, with a swirling, luminous sky above a quiet village. The bold, expressive brushwork and vivid colors exemplify Post-Impressionism. Though van Gogh himself considered it a study rather than a finished work, The Starry Night has become one of the most recognized and reproduced paintings in Western art, housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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