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Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
Its position low on the hills and bright, white color make Barnard astronomer Janna Levin think van Gogh saw the planet in ...
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Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ held a secret — and scientists just discovered the ‘hidden turbulence’
“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovere ...
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The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the ... Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting.
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Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' is not a masterpiece when it comes to flow physics, researchers say
The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one ... (often referred to simply as "Starry Night") in June 1889, and its depiction of a pre-sunrise sky and village was inspired in part ...
The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family
A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...
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Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’
The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.
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‘Starry Night,’ All Night Long, as a Van Gogh Blockbuster Ends
Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times The rest of the National Gallery closed at 9 p.m. on Friday, but the van Gogh exhibition rooms stayed open all night ...