Starry Night

1889

Oil on linen

73x92 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

I haven’t a favorite photograph. Actually I have lots Vincent Van Gogh’s favorite paints.At the time that he was in Arles, looking for a different light and a sky brighter after to found the color in Paris. Here, the artist was shocked by the blue and yellow lights of the place...

I love his painting techique which exalts the contrast of light in the imagen even in the night The same Van Gogh said once “I often think that night is more lively and richer in color than the day”. So, I choose the Starry Night because it represents his idea about the particular tones when the sun disappears.

Vincent appreciated the bright and off feeling at the same time that the night has. So, we can see that the stars and the moon seems suns over the village. Besides there is a black spot that extends to the heaven when all the space is full of light. (Here is the contrast).

Thus, the dutchman artist show us a scene witch details doesn’t matter (for example, with a few touches of yellow, Van Gogh represents lights on inside of the houses of the village) but a only space feeling.