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a swirling sky painted from a madhouse window by a man who sold one canvas alive.
means A night sky filled with visible stars; also, by association, Vincent van Gogh's famous 1889 painting of such a sky.
from "Starry" comes from Old English "steorra," star, a word with deep Germanic roots and distant cousins across Indo-European languages (Latin "stella," Greek "aster"). "Night" is likewise ancient — Old English "niht," akin to German "Nacht" and Latin "nox." The pairing is plain English describing a clear, star-filled sky, but the phrase now lives mostly in the shadow of van Gogh's "De sterrennacht," titled in English "The Starry Night," painted while he was a patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy.
- painted indoors
- Van Gogh worked from memory in an asylum room.
- the swirls
- Their turbulence eerily matches real fluid dynamics math.
- morning star
- That bright spot is likely Venus, not a star.
- he disliked it
- Van Gogh called the painting a failure.
- MoMA home
- It hangs in New York, far from Provence.