The significance of starry night works

As the work of the expressive post-impressionist painter Van Gogh, this painting has a strong brushwork. Blue, the main color in oil painting, represents unhappy and gloomy mood. Thick strokes represent sadness. The scene in the picture is looking out of the window. The tree in the painting is a cypress tree, but it is painted as a black flame, which goes straight into the sky and makes people feel uneasy. The texture of the sky is like a spiral galaxy, accompanied by many stars, while the moon appears as a dim eclipse. In the whole painting, the village at the bottom is depicted with straight and short lines, showing a kind of tranquility; But it is in sharp contrast with the rough and curved lines in the upper part. In this highly exaggerated deformation and strong visual contrast, the artist's restless mood and psychedelic image world are reflected. Van Gogh enjoyed the surfing of Kanagawa in the Japanese ukiyo-e painting "Thirty-six Scenes of Xianyue" before his death. The painting style of spiral nebula in the starry night sky is considered to be a reference and integration of the elements of Kanagawa surfing.

In a modern scientific research, scientists found that Van Gogh's later works, including Starry Night, contained a kind of charm called "turbulence" in physics, and speculated that this charm came from Van Gogh's extraordinary painting perception and expression ability because of his long-term madness. On March 4, 2004, NASA and the European Space Agency released a space photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, saying that "this space photo is very similar to Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night". For example, the photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a scene around a star named Unicorn V838. The star is located in the direction of the unicorn, 20,000 light years away from the Earth.