What they learned most of all through the experiments — including a look at “Starry Night’s” 14 twirling shapes — was how van Gogh had an uncanny connection to the movement of our ...
Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known ...
They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...