historyofartdaily:historyofartdaily:Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night / Olive Trees, 1889, MoM
historyofartdaily:historyofartdaily:Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night / Olive Trees, 1889, MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New YorkThe Olive Trees are the daylight complement to the nocturnal Starry Night. In fact, Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: “I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky”. In these two paintings, Van Gogh went beyond what he called “the photographic and silly perfection of some painters”.Happy 165th Birthday, Vincent Van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) -- source link
#starry night#art#so gorgeous