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529ll the details not to be missed in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
You could spend a lifetime gazing into The Starry Night, but each and every time you’ll find something you missed last time: that’s the beauty of one of the most famous landscape paintings of all time. You simply get lost in it.
Like many pioneers, van Gogh’s work was not fully appreciated during his lifetime, yet his significant and enduring legacy means he is still inspiring artists many generations later.
In fact, The Starry Night inspired LEGO® fan designer Truman Cheng for his winning LEGO Ideas submission that reimagines the famous painting in 3D. After receiving over 10,000 votes from the LEGO Ideas community, we turned it into a real-life LEGO set.
To celebrate its launch, we take a closer look at the details of the real painting, with the help of MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York and their online resources for this picture...Van Gogh was inspired by the view from his window at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy in Southern France, where he spent twelve months in 1889–90.
But when comparing the painting to the actual view, it’s not entirely similar. That’s because the painting is based on the Dutch artist’s imagination, memories and emotions, as well as his direct observations.
MoMA offers this description on their website: The Starry Night is a visually striking “exercise in observation and a clear departure from it....van Gogh assigned an emotional language to night and nature that took them far from their actual appearances.”
So, let’s explore the masterpiece in more detail...