Starry Night

Starry Night makes me think of the time I spent a night under the stars. That hint of fresh air and crispiness of the night perhaps makes everything seem clean and refreshing. Its the kind of experience where imagination takes place and so you look up and see the sky like you've seldom seen it before. It is a feeling of happiness, perhaps even sadness. Something that one experiences may be expressed in different ways.
Vincent Van Gogh at the time was in an asylum when he painted Starry Night. Van Gogh's painting expresses his deep thoughts and emotions while emphasizing the colors he painted with; yellow, blue, and dark velvet to almost black. The painting overlooks a small village at nighttime emphasizing the tall black tree which happens to be the first noticeable object in the painting. The night sky is painted very wavy and swervy using elongated brush strokes while the rest of the picture happens to be in the background; being not as important as the rest of it. The stars are painted yellow twirling in the night sky scattered around the moon and the moon is the deepest yellow of all, perhaps. The village right beneath the night sky probably represents the small fraction of power in the world because it is painted in dark colors mostly giving way to the starry sky overall. Van Gogh's painting is a mixture of the loss of hope or the gain of happiness. It is the colors that portray the painting and bestow upon the onlooker what is Van Gogh perhaps feeling in this one.