I had gone to the Netherlands during the summer and the presence of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt had evoked a feeling within me that had inspired me to look at the different things in life from a different perspective.
I hope you read this from a new and different perspective.
The Starry Night is Vincent’s most phenomenal and recognised work that he has ever produced within the span of 33 years. It is also often misinterpreted as is not often understood the way he would’ve desired or wished. Vincent often appreciated artists that displayed themes of reality in rather odd forms or ways, he wanted a sense of realism and naturalism to exist within his paintings and within the depth of his audience’s mind.
Many people think that he mainly made the painting because of his desire to express loneliness and make the most out of boredom but in fact between the gaps in the phenomenal quality of paint portrayed on that canvas, he tried to convey depression which is often caused by loneliness. So if you thought it was about loneliness, I’ll give you ten points for a good attempt. Vincent took inspiration from the Saint Paul Asylum in Saint- Remy in Southern France. His understanding of the painting was that – he wanted to display the sorrowful depression that was rife within the asylum that took patients’ lives mentally and left them physically drained.
The painting was done thirteen months before his death when he was staying at the asylum as he wanted to also display his depression during his stay in the asylum that took him by storm.
His paintings have titles that are often deceiving and are certainly interesting to learn about and to ponder but his career only spanning a short period of time of 33 years leaves us deep in thought about what other masterpieces could he have generated or produced if he had stayed around for a little longer.
Vincent was indeed an interesting man and a smart man who left his audience with stories to keenly ‘investigate’ and read between the lines and the small gaps of paint where the imaginary breed and live.
Always remember to never look at things from your way only, but also look at things from a different perspective and I hope you start doing that as soon as possible.
