Who is vincent in starry starry night

I remember the first time I ever heard those words, "Starry, starry night. My brother and I were listening to it and we both just looked at each other because we had never heard anything like it.

Take us back to the writing of the song, "Vincent. I guess I was We used to gather around and play the new record with a group of kids, listening to the new album by somebody they liked. It was an excuse to get together and have a soda or something.

Someone would have one of those futuristic, plastic radios you could take to the beach and we would think, "Whoa, what a big deal, to have a radio this small compared to the house radio. I remember that night, they were outside, hearing Elvis Presley, so for you to tell me that, it gives me a wonderful feeling inside. BH: It literally feels like it was yesterday. We knew. I was in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I had just come out with the first record and I was broke.

No money. I was singing in the Stockbridge school system, like those people who play in the class. I would play banjo for the kids in kindergarten and sing to the high school students or for the community college. I was very versatile. It was about how both of them had the same illness. I always thought he was the usual cliche. DM: He lost his mind over a woman, and of course he was high strung, because he was an artist.

I understand. So, I thought maybe I would write a song about this and set the record straight. I had always known his work and I had books on him, even when I had no money.

I just felt something from him. Everybody does. BH: Can I interrupt? I feel like you are writing as much about yourself, sometimes, in that song, in parts of that song, as you were writing about Van Gogh. DM: Always. There is always something about me and what I can understand. BH: We are gonna go back to Stockbridge. Or is there something more we can read within the whorls Vincent's raging night sky?

This is what makes Starry Night not only Vincent's most famous work, but also one of its most frequently interpreted in terms of its meaning and importance. Some people have speculated about the eleven stars in the painting. While it's true that Vincent didn't have the same religious fervour in , when he painted the work, as he did in his earlier years, there is a possibility that the story of Joseph in the Old Testament may have had an influence on the composition of the work.

Additional Commentary The interesting issue of Starry Night and its astronomical significance is discussed in detail on an Online Forum page. Oil on canvas Provenance Exhibitions. See below. Previous painting. Next painting. Theo van Gogh. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. Oldenzeel Gallery.

Miss G. On loan to Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, until May Paul Rosenburg Art Gallery. New York. United States.

Museum of Modern Art. Acquired through the L. Bliss bequest. Stedelijk Museum. Tentoonstelling Vincent van Gogh. Kunstzalen Oldenzeel. Museum Boymans. Kersttentoonstelling in het Museum Boijmans. New York 2. Art in Progress, Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition.

Cleveland Museum of Art.