The Starry Night

The starry night the skies bestow upon us earthlings here below gives rise to ever wondrous gaze and sights o’erwhelming to amaze as in the painting by van Gogh, that grand impressionistic show in indigo of cosmic flow, so disregarded in his days, the Starry Night. We yearn to fathom vast tableau and yet ourselves have failed to know. How fickle are the public’s ways. When Vincent strove for word of praise he saw no hint how famed would grow the Starry Night. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh Painting Credit: Vincent van Gogh; Digital Rendering: MoMA, Google Arts & Culture, via Wikipedia Explanation: The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in Starry Night. The style of Starry Night is post-impressionism, a popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The original Starry Night painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, USA.