Starry Night ☲ Van Gogh ☰ Woven Art Blanket dogsThe Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. It depicts the view from his asylum room at Saint Rmy de Provence. Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the asylum after the breakdown that resulted in mutilating his left ear. The painting depicts the sky just before sunrise over an imaginary village, with a large cypress on the left, hills in the background, and waning moon in the upper right.
the doors frame the plants on the balcony
1 (1871) by James McNeill Whistler
The painting shows a European girl wearing Turkish dress with what appears to be a very large pearl as an earring
The print depicts a large wave about to overtake boats navigating a stormy sea
Chop Suey (1929) by Edward Hopper pays particular attention to the effects of light in the scene
and Coffeehouse in the evening (Café
It is interpreted as an emblem of life's transience and individual salvation
commonly mistaken to be a turban
and contrasts the extraordinary wealth of the magi with poor peasants and shepherds
soleil levant) by Claude Monet is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement
or Portrait of the Artist's Mother
observe the scene underneath a curtain held aloft by angels