Night Vision
Under cover of darkness lies a timeless fascination. Inspired by the imagery in the poems of Walt Whitman, Van Gogh painted Starry Night (1889) while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy. Perhaps his relationship with night illuminated the clarity and depth of his self-awareness for he sees “under the great starlit vault of heaven… eternity in its place above the world.” In Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888) the stars appear surrounded by their own orb of light and reflected in patterns in the water. Read More »