Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most widely analyzed art pieces in the world. What makes this painting so fascinating to researchers in fields ranging from art history to psychology to physics?
Van Gogh himself definitely wouldn’t have expected The Starry Night to become one of his most famous paintings. In a letter to Émile Bernard, he called the painting a failure, believing that he had made a mistake by straying too far from nature and into abstraction.
Links mentioned in the video
Great Wave by Hokusai video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfSHCmcc9Vc&t=37s
Ted Ed van Gogh turbulence video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMerSm2ToFY
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