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Starry Night, Art Poster by Vincent Van Gogh | 
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List Price: $14.75
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 9878
Dimensions (in): 0 x 28 x 22
ASIN: B00017X1EE
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| • | Print Title: Starry Night | | • | Artist: Vincent Van Gogh | | • | $6.95 Flat Shipping Rate to Continental US. No Extra Charge for Additional Prints! | | • | Image size: 24.5 x 19.5, Paper size: 28.0 x 22.0 |
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Product Description
Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundest, Holland. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings. In 1886 he went to Paris and inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin. He began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion. He went south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting his own ear off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Alien beauty October 30, 2004
C. MCCALLISTER (The waters of the Great Lakes)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Vincent Van Gogh is neither my favorite artist nor an artist whose work I dislike. I usually look at a Van Gogh work and think, "That's nice. It's interesting." His work usually does not instill enthusiasm in me.
But, this one, along with "Iris Garden", is different. The colors are such lush and so vivid, that I want to run my hand across the picture. There is such a strong impression of texture, conveyed even in art posters such as this, that I expect to feel the waves, bumps, ridges, and ripples of the surface. While I usually prefer more realistic art, this picture is so clearly what it is, yet also so alien in its beauty, that it makes me stop and stare at it, while wondering how Van Gogh really saw the world.
This print or poster is a good one for an office, and it might end up in mine.
 Very nice May 31, 2008
Cindy Tuisku (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this poster with my kindergarten class to kick off a lesson on Van Gogh. This was just what I needed. It is reproduced very well at a good price.
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