When asked what your favorite painting is or who is the painter, you can often hear the answer of Vincent van Gogh / Starry Night from people. It is possible to see his painting even in bags, socks, clothes (the subject of another article on how accurate this is). While popular culture, science and art history love him so much, Vincent sees this work as an example of error and failure in itself. This painting, which we passed as “ah what a beautiful view” while looking at it, was the view that Vincent saw after the window of the mental hospital.

Born in 1853, Vincent van Gogh died at the age of 37 after a suicide attempt because of blood loss. The picture called Starry Night in 1889 He made it from the window of the room on the east floor of the mental and nervous diseases hospital in Remy, which he used as a workshop.

There are many opinions about Van Gogh’s illness. Nienke Bakker (researcher of the Van Gogh Museum) says that the painter suffers from a discomfort, a mixture of bipolar disorder and temporal lobe epilepsy. Although the diagnoses made over time have changed, the disease is said to have acute intermittent porphyria, meniere and borderline personality disorder. However, he could not prevent him from producing unprecedented works, regardless of his illness.

Starry Night has an important place in art history. Let’s look at the reasons why Van Gogh did not like the picture so important:

Imagine yourself in front of this picture in an empty room. What would you feel? Isn’t the sky, the stars, the village visible from afar and the other prominent details so beautiful?

In one of the letters he wrote to his brother Theo, Vincent says, “Starry Night”: “I see a field of wheat in my window with iron bars. In the morning, I watch the sunrise in all its glory. ”

In the picture, short brush strokes and light appear particularly prominently on the sky. Another feature that makes this picture important is the ‘turbulence’ that scientists are constantly working on.

Look at the colors of the picture, is it familiar from other paintings by Van Gogh? Yellow and blue …

When we look at the picture from a distance, a village, a swirling sky, stars, the moon and a church are seen. In fact, when viewed from the room where the artist stayed, the church and the village are not in its view. These are purely Vincent’s imagination. Art historians say that the church and the village were drawn in accordance with the Dutch architecture, where the artist was born. In his 37-year life, the church had an important place for Vincent, his father was a conservative cleric and he wanted his son to be like him. He was also a preacher. This situation caused the painting to start at a young age. At the age of 27 and 28, they ended their job by saying that they damaged the image of the Church. Later, Vincent gave himself to the painting, only painting the last nine years of his life, leaving us wonderful works.

The cypress tree that we see in the picture is an element that is usually in cemeteries and symbolizes death. In other words, the items that explained that he was close to death in the last period of his life were part of his paintings.

The letters he left behind and his wonderful paintings were made in just nine years. It is a good situation for a mental patient …

Finally, Vincent painted iron bars while painting. This shows us that your mind and imagination are free.

The painting is 73.7 cm x 92.1 cm in size and is currently on display at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.