Vincent Van Gogh And The Starry Night

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Pretty much as Vincent Van Gogh, I likewise thought amid his period that present-day life, with its steady social change and concentrate on advancement and achievement, estranged individuals from each other and from themselves. As we all know individuals experiencing an unbalance mental condition as Van Gogh did were not in contact with the truth. I think the Van Gogh unbalance condition was overpowering while he searched for a puzzling impact to his depiction. Considering myself, it is difficult to center when I drink alcohol, so contrasting it with the Van Gogh mental illness must have likewise been troublesome for him to center. The Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 36 ¼", is not a routine painting, instead it is a painting of expressionism

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