Kacie- there is a nice swirling effect going on and it has yellow dots that are stars and that theres a little town.

Gavin-

Sean-the painting uses mostly cool colors being blue.

Julisa-I see swirls, little houses  and a moon.

Analyze

Kacie-uses lines that become a swirl in the middle of the page acting like wind

Gavin-

Sean-uses lines to paint the scene such as the sky.

Julia-The lines look like they are actually going up. It pretty much uses lines. 

Interpretation

Kacie-shows how van gogh might have felt with the night sky

Gavin-

Sean-I think the painting means is to show what van Gogh saw on a night sky.

Julisa- Probably shows his emotions.

Judgement

Kacie-the colors make it really catching to the eye and make people look differntly about the night sky.

Gavin-

Sean-The paintings colours make it look pleasing to the eye, and lighter colours around the moon show it’s brightness. 

Julisa- This painting is pretty catchy and it looks cool. 

Date: June 1889

Materials: Oil paint on canvas

Size: 2’5” x 3’0”

Alyssa: The first thing that I noticed was the hard black outline of a twisting tree in the foreground against the night sky in the background. The sky is swirling with endless shades of yellow and blue, with a very yellow crescent moon perched in the sky. In front of the oiled swirling sky, there are rolling hills that are made up of dark blues and blacks. A village is seen at the base of the hills, and the most noticeable building is the white steeple of a church tower. The brushstrokes are thick and distinguished, making the different colors seem to shine out at the viewer. 

Marc:

Maddie:

Alyssa: Van Gogh shows the main center of interest by using bright colors and very distinguished and sharp designs in the sky. While all the other colors in the painting are dark, the sky is made of many whites and bright yellows to attract the eyes. The tree in the foreground is also a center of interest, since it is so dark compared to everything else, and overlaps the bright sky. 

Marc:

Maddie:

Alyssa: Since I know about the artist himself, I believe this painting was the release of emotion, and an attempt to put on canvas the way he saw the world. He had many mental problems and it weighed hard on him; he painted this after admitting himself into an asylum. The strangeness of the painting and the movement of the sky makes me believe he may have been pouring his sorrow and confusion into this piece, or perhaps trying to make sense of his hometown in his own way.

Marc:

Maddie:

Alyssa: I love this painting very much, and I know for a fact that it was a great success. It is one of many pieces of the story that Van Gogh left behind, and it lives on to this day. I sometimes wonder what he would think if he could see the way people now love the art that others used to make fun of him for.

Marc:

Maddie: