Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night

The Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889. It was an oil canvas of the night sky. Van Gogh was a fanatic for night time and showed that in this painting. In Starry Night, the light is shining bright with energy and life, with a very quiet village below. Van Gogh put the cypress tree in his painting to connect the earth and sky, some say that he used the tree to reflect his own thoughts about death. Van Gogh depicted a lot of darkness in this oil painting, but made it seem like it is still possible to see light in houses, and the beautiful stars above. It’s almost like Van Gogh was using the silent village as death and having the sky be the life on earth. Van Gogh created this painting when he was staying in an asylum at Saint Remy. Starry night is believed to be the view from his bedroom window. …show more content…
C. Escher printed Relativity in 1953. This print was a lithograph. One of the cool traits about this print was its unique 3-dimensional style. This print depicts a world where the laws of gravity do not apply. The structure has seven stairways, and all of the stairways can be used by people who belong in different gravity sources. People depicted as going up the stairs upside-down, are actually going down the stairs normally in their gravity source. Escher shows an unrealistic world in this print, in the same way he is asking who controls this world. He printed this to seem like the human figures control what’s going on. The humans are going on with their normal day, not in any form trying to change what’s going on. Escher is saying that as long as us humans are normal and content with life, that we will go along with the distorted world we live in. In Escher’s mind were the ones who control what’s at stake in this world. He showing that if we want to change it, we have the power to do