The oil canvas painting "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh, a professional Dutch painter whose art movement is Post-Impressionism. Painted in June 1889, which symbolizes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint. Remy de Province, just before the sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. On this painting Van Gogh used his unique and famous, thick brush strokes, however, this was not the right stroking method he was gonna go for. As he was about to start doing light normal strokes, he suddenly had a slight seizure which resulted on a thick brush stroke instead of a light normal stroke and since there were no extra sheets of empty canvas' he decided to just go for a different approach. Vincent Van Gogh has a maximum of two rooms to go around on the asylum which is the ground level and the top level, first off, the top level, this is the main room , the room where he sleeps, eats, and do a bunch of other stuff. As for the ground level this serves as his painting studio in which he can always go to whenever he feels bored or inspired. During the year, he has made tons of progress while on the asylum. The prolific output of paintings he had begun in Arles continued. During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the Irises from May 1889, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the blue self-portrait from September, 1889, in the Musée d'Orsay and finally the famous oil canvas painting "The Starry Night" was painted mid-June by around June 18, the date he wrote to his brother Theo to say he had a new study of a starry sky. The famous painting "The Starry Night" is currently on the museum of Modern Art located on New York City. Aside, from that, the real reason onto why this Painting has such deep meaning yet such a normal looking canvas is because Vincent Van Gogh during the point of painting this Canvas was slowly dying because of his ill, unfortunately there was no accurate reason on what was his condition on the asylum. The tree on the background is called the Cypress Tree, in europe, it represents death and so Vincent Van Gogh was trying to show and present a message in which people would understand the reason on his death. This paining, Vincent Van Gogh was currently painting was supposed to be a gift for his brother Theo but instead it became a death flag.
Honestly, on this Canvas, Vincent Van Gogh made, I don't know if its just me but you could definitely feel Van Gogh's depression through the canvas that he has made. The fact that he has realized that he has only little time left to live has made him depressed, it's like he has more things he wanted to do on his life but unfortunately couldn't. Looking onto the current world we live in, we're trapped in asylum (technically) just like Vincent Van Gogh. Because of this Pandemic, more and more people has experienced depression. Why? you may ask. Well, this is most likely because of being alone or forced to stay on the same place over and over again. But then again, Vincent Van Gogh had it more rough than us on this pandemic.
I myself have not experienced depression. I couldn't even imagine myself having depression but I have some people that I knew that have been gone through depression. I could easily identify a person especially people that are close to me if there's something wrong with them. It is a shame that I couldn't do anything to help them because I am afraid of doing mistakes such as making their conditions worse, in fact I myself couldn't do anything about other peoples feelings, it's not like I'm a guidance counselor or a therapist that could help conditions of people that are unbearable and so I am glad that I haven't interfere with any of their conditions. I instead try to pretend and not know anything about their condition and try to make them forget the sadness they are currently experiencing on that moment.
The true meaning behind Vincent Van Gogh's, Starry Night Painting is that no matter how simple an object is, there is sometimes a deep meaning behind it. A good example of this is the painting Vincent Van Gogh made. At first look, the towns people thought it is just an ordinary painting. But whenever the painting got to Theo, he knew something was up. Because he knew the his brother, Vincent, wouldn't make such a plain looking painting with no definition at all. And so after a few days he has noticed the tree which symbolizes death in europe. He blantantly accepted Vincent's death, straight up, because that was how they were taught back then. Anyways, In the painting there are 11 stars, this reminded me of that movie scene from the bible where the night sky had 11 stars and coincidentally, in the bible it has stated that if there are about 11 stars shining through the night sky means that there's hope. Even how hard you have gone through, no matter how hard it is to achieve your goal. There is always hope. But unfortunately, for the Dutch painter, there wasn't hope for him.
Vincent Van Gogh during asylum has experienced depression through out. Why has he experienced depression? you may ask. I mean, imagine being staying the same two rooms alone for a year. Wouldn't you at least experience a brink of depression? So that is why Vincent tried to prevent depression because he knew this could go worse and affect his mental health. Now I'm calling out every person that is reading this essay, if ever you are experiencing depression try to prevent it. Having depression is hard to get rid of. I know. Even if I haven't experienced having depression, I still have friends that have experienced so I know how it feels. Try to prevent depression by Getting enough sleep, eat well, and exercise regularly. Reach out to family and friends when times get hard. Get regular medical checkups, and see your provider if you don't feel right. Get help if you think you're depressed. And lastly do not forget that there is still hope.
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TEMPLETON REID {15 JANUARY 2013} Vincent Van Gogh : Starry Night. Retrieved from :
https://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starry-night.html
K SHABI. {4 June, 2013}Starry night : Meaning of the Vincent Van Gogh Landscape painting. Retrieved from : https://legomenon.com/starry-night-meaning-of-vincent-van-gogh-painting.html
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