Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could learn from. The Starry Night came about late in his short career after Vincent van Gogh was hospitalized. He painted the view from his window, but rather than painting things exactly as he saw them, he painted a sort of composite landscape of views from different nights and even different locations. He moved the cypress tree to the foreground and added a little town nestled in the mountains despite the town not being visible from his window. This marked a major shift in painting away from observation of the external world to artists creating work as a show of their internal thoughts and feelings.

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Vincent van Gogh (part 1) | The Potatoe Eaters

Vincent van Gogh (part 2) | Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers

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I mentioned the LuxeSci Podcast in this episode. Dr. Lex joined me in my Cezanne episode. The current season of LuxeSci is getting into the weeds about art materials, so if you want to understand how we see color, or how different pigments are made, check out her show.

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