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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.
When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most ... the curling swaths of color in the painting's night sky closely follow a mathematical theory that describes the complex ...
The New York Times25d
10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Starry Night’ by van Gogh
Look at the difference between these trees drawn just four years apart, in 1884 and 1888: Now compare his use of color in this painting of Paris from 1886 with his choices in “Starry Night” in ...
The Washington Post5mon
The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent ... He broke the square down into three color channels for analysis. He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical ...
Artnet8mon
Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Surprisingly Accurate, Say Physicists
In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry ... Night. Previous studies have compared the painting’s turbulent properties to molecular clouds that form stars and how Van Gogh used color theory ...