Starry Night
作者
Van Gogh 文森·梵谷
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典藏者
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art New York, 美國
Van Gogh's night sky is a field of roiling energy. Below the exploding stars, a village is a place of quiet order. Connecting earth and sky is the flamelike cypress, a tree traditionally associated with graveyards and mourning. But death was not ominous for van Gogh. "Looking at the stars always makes me dream," he said, "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."
The artist wrote of his experience to his brother Theo: "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." This morning star, or Venus, maybe the large white star just left of center in The Starry Night. The hamlet, on the other hand, is invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands. The painting, like its daytime companion, The Olive Trees, is rooted in imagination and memory. Leaving behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all subsequent Expressionist paintings.
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 35
Find out more about The Starry Night at: mo.ma/starry night
此作品為表現性的後印象主義畫家梵谷的作品，這幅畫有很強的筆觸。油畫中的主色調藍色代表不開心、陰沉的感覺。很粗的筆觸代表憂愁。畫中景象是一個望出窗外的景象。畫中的樹是柏樹，但畫得像黑色火舌一般，直上雲端，令人有不安之感。天空的紋理像渦狀星系，並伴隨眾多星點，而月亮則是以昏黃的月蝕形式出現。整幅畫中，底部的村落是以平直、粗短的線條繪畫，表現出一種寧靜；但與上部粗獷彎曲的線條卻產生強烈的對比，在這種高度誇張變形和強烈視覺對比中體現出了畫家躁動不安的情感和迷幻的意象世界。[1]梵谷生前非常欣賞日本浮世繪《冨嶽三十六景》中的《神奈川沖浪裏》，而《星夜》中天空的渦狀星雲畫風被認為參考並融入了《神奈川沖浪裏》的元素。
詳細資訊
標題: The Starry Night
建立者: Vincent van Gogh
建立日期: 1889
建立位置: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
實際尺寸: w921 x h737 mm
Style: Post-Impressionism
Provenance: Acquired through the Lillie P.Bliss Bequest
Original Title: La nuit étoilée
More Info: View more works by Vincent van Gogh on MoMA.org
類型: Painting
外部連結: View MoMA's collection online
材質: Oil on canvas
The artist wrote of his experience to his brother Theo: "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." This morning star, or Venus, maybe the large white star just left of center in The Starry Night. The hamlet, on the other hand, is invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands. The painting, like its daytime companion, The Olive Trees, is rooted in imagination and memory. Leaving behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all subsequent Expressionist paintings.
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 35
Find out more about The Starry Night at: mo.ma/starry night
此作品為表現性的後印象主義畫家梵谷的作品，這幅畫有很強的筆觸。油畫中的主色調藍色代表不開心、陰沉的感覺。很粗的筆觸代表憂愁。畫中景象是一個望出窗外的景象。畫中的樹是柏樹，但畫得像黑色火舌一般，直上雲端，令人有不安之感。天空的紋理像渦狀星系，並伴隨眾多星點，而月亮則是以昏黃的月蝕形式出現。整幅畫中，底部的村落是以平直、粗短的線條繪畫，表現出一種寧靜；但與上部粗獷彎曲的線條卻產生強烈的對比，在這種高度誇張變形和強烈視覺對比中體現出了畫家躁動不安的情感和迷幻的意象世界。[1]梵谷生前非常欣賞日本浮世繪《冨嶽三十六景》中的《神奈川沖浪裏》，而《星夜》中天空的渦狀星雲畫風被認為參考並融入了《神奈川沖浪裏》的元素。
詳細資訊
標題: The Starry Night
建立者: Vincent van Gogh
建立日期: 1889
建立位置: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
實際尺寸: w921 x h737 mm
Style: Post-Impressionism
Provenance: Acquired through the Lillie P.Bliss Bequest
Original Title: La nuit étoilée
More Info: View more works by Vincent van Gogh on MoMA.org
類型: Painting
外部連結: View MoMA's collection online
材質: Oil on canvas
