La Nuit étoilée - Van Gogh
Peinture post impressionniste de Van Gogh, la nuit etoilee temoigne de la tourmente de l'artiste.
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00:00 "I have a terrible need for religion, so at night, I go out to paint the stars."
00:05 "Second Starry Night" by Van Gogh, the starry night of 1889, is much more tormented,
00:12 like the decline of his mental health.
00:16 Painted from the window of his room at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,
00:19 where he voluntarily interned, especially after having cut the lip of an ear,
00:24 he considered this painting as "failed".
00:26 A post-impressionist work, we can find it today in Super Mario Bros. U or Animal Crossing.
00:34 Painting nature, the landscape, to deposit his emotions, has a cathartic function for Van Gogh,
00:40 who paints this view 21 times.
00:43 Not one shows the walls of his room.
00:46 The composition creates an opposition between the celestial and the terrestrial.
00:50 Between the two, thick, tortured, dancing like a flame, the cypress seems to play the role of a bridge between the two parts of the painting.
00:59 It is the tree of the cemeteries, evoking death, perceived as a deliverance by Van Gogh.
01:05 In this living sky, the moon, Venus, but especially this spiral, probably inspired by the galaxy of the whirlwind,
01:12 from the astronomy of the time, of which Van Gogh was a fan.
01:17 He said at night that it is much more alive and richly colored than day.
01:22 Also, Van Gogh will tell his brother in his letters.