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5 facts about Van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) ✨

💙 The painting was painted in the psychiatric clinic of Saint-Remy, where the artist went after the episode with the ear. Van Gogh looked at the sky through the bars, and it looked like this.

💙 The artist himself considered his masterpiece a failure. He wrote to Theo that the stars were "too big" and his "distortion experiments had failed."

💙 A year earlier, another "Starry Night" was created, known as the "Starry Night over the Rhone".

💙 There is a theory that in this work Van Gogh depicted the most complex concept of turbulence.

💙 It is already known that Van Gogh was interested in astronomy, and saw photographs of the Andromeda galaxy, first taken in 1887-88. Probably, consciously or subconsciously, the artist was inspired by the "spiral nebulae" when painting the painting.

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