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April 20, 2015

Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”

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“The Starry Night” is a simple, small oil painting, 29 in. by 36 in. It portrays a landscape consisting of a village tucked in among some hills, a night sky with stars and an exaggerated crescent moon, and a tall tree. There is no activity, no people, and no animals. Described like this, you would hardly think the picture was worth a second look. So what makes it so special? - Neatorama

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The Devrys School of Ophthalmology and Stained Glass bid the price up to get it for their lobby.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 20, 2015 10:32 AM

The first painting I ever did started off with too dark blue sky like that, couldn't lighten it up, I got disgusted and threw it in the corner and never touched the stuff again, that was over 20 years ago.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 20, 2015 2:13 PM

Palette knives are made for putting paint on and scraping it off.

The garbage man sold that canvas on the Antiques Road Show for #13,000; he called it dark blue half done.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 21, 2015 6:18 AM

So, Van Gogh musta painted this picture when he was in the dash something off to pay the rent phase of his life.
I stayed home from school the day they taught Art. Never felt that I was missing anything.

Huh? Whatta you laughing at? Oh, um, OK.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 21, 2015 8:05 AM

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