Painting Critique
Kylie Wetzel Professor Bomboy HUM 101 Painting 1500-1900 Critique “The Starry Night” The Starry Night was painted in 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh. The painting is the view from Van Gogh’s window in the asylum where he was kept in his final years of life. The Starry Night is just one of the many variations of the same paintings Van Gogh did. One of his most famous variations includes the Starry Night Over The Rhone. Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853. He was a Dutch impressionist. He had a very big influence on expressionism, and early abstract art. Van Gogh was tormented by mental illness and he created most of his work while institutionalized. As a result of his illness he cut off his own ear in 1888. In 1890 Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide by shooting himself. Described: In The Starry Night you see a small village with a castle in the middle followed by a sky filled in stars. In the background you can see ...