STARRY NIGHTS

Starry Nights

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Sketchbook assignment:

Draw a Star.

•Use the entire page.

•Use at least 3 colors.

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VanGogh Starry Night Over the Rhone, Arles. 1888

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VanGogh The Starry Night 1889

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Starry, starry night.Paint your palette blue and grey…

Catch the breeze and the winter chills,In colors on the snowy linen land…

Lines from “Vincent” by Don Mclean

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,Swirling clouds in violet haze….

http://www.americanpie.com/extracts/vincent.ram

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In point of fact I was interrupted these days by my toiling on a new picture representing the outside of a night cafe. On the terrace there are tiny figures of people drinking. An enormous yellow lantern sheds its light on the terrace, the house and the sidewalk, and even causes a certain brightness on the pavement of the street, which takes a pinkish violet tone. The gable-topped fronts of the houses in a street stretching away under a blue sky spangled with stars are dark blue or violet and there is a green tree. Here you have a night picture without any black in it, done with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green, and in these surroundings the lighted square acquires a pale sulphur and greenish citron-yellow colour. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot. They used to draw and paint the picture in the daytime after the rough sketch. But I find satisfaction in painting things immediately

-Vincent VanGogh, 1888

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Oil on canvas81.0 x 65.5 cm.Arles: September, 1888

Van Gogh

The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles at Night

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Edvard Munch

Starry Night, 1893

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Henri Matisse

Jazz Icarus, 1943

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Joan Miro Constellation Awakening At Dawn

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Joan Miro Constellation: The Morning Star 1940

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Joan Miro Constellation: The Morning Star 1940

VanGogh Starry Night Over the Rhone, Arles. 1888

Pick your favorite. Give 2 reasons why.

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Some fun star facts:

•You can see about 6,000 stars with your eyes.

•Scientists have discovered that stars are composed of flaming gases.

•Constellations are images that poets, farmers and astronomers have created by drawing imaginary lines between stars over the past 6,000 years.

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Constellation-Orion

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