Question

Consider this painting by Vincent Van Gogh. What can be observed from this painting? Check all that apply. It was created in June. It shows a night scene. It is a landscape view. It reveals the Alpilles mountain range. It was painted with swirling brush strokes.

Answer 1

The painting you are referring to, The Starry Night, was painted in June 1889 and it shows a night scene. It depicts, specifically, the view from the painter's window in his asylum room and it reveals, in the background, the Alpilles mountains (France), together with an idealized hamlet (a reference to his country, the Netherlands), so it can be considered a landscape view. Finally, it was painted with swirling or sweeping thick brush strokes, one of the artist's main formal features.

Answer 2

The corrects answers are:

B) It shows a night scene.

C) It is a landscape view.

E) It was painted with swirling brush strokes.

What can be observed from this painting by Vincent Van Gogh is that It shows a night scene, it is a landscape view, it was painted with swirling brush strokes.

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night while he was at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, in France. He went there several months after a breakdown in which he cut a portion of his ear with a razor. The famous Starry Night is an abstract landscape painting form 1889. The oil-on-canvas painting depicts an expressive night sky over a small hillside village. The sky is full of stars in the form of spirals and a glowing yellow crescent moon.