As part of the exhibit "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" that I talked about yesterday, this famous painting was also in the exhibit! "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1889! I guess is has to be one of the most famous paintings out there. I remember buying a poster of this painting when I was in college. So the area in front of the painting was mobbed, and of course looking at the painting doesn't count. You need a selfie of yourself in front of it to prove you were there. Sigh...
I wasn't expecting to see this painting so it was a complete surprise to suddenly come upon it. I did have a minute or two when the painting wasn't mobbed to study it, and it is a powerful feeling to find yourself face to face with the real thing! I think I want to go back to MoMA again, before this exhibit closes so I can spend more time just looking at it.
Love the painting and now I am singing the song. Joan
ReplyDeleteTook a painting class at the library a few years ago and this was the subject. Never realized that he used a lot of short strokes in this painting. Took forever. But it really made me look at this close up. I was lucky to see an exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings at the Clark Art Institute in MA several years ago. Betsey
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