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Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at age 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

  The Starry Night is the only nocturne in the series of views from his bedroom window. In early June, Vincent wrote to Theo, "This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise with nothing but the morning star , which looked very big" Researchers have determined that Venus was indeed visible at dawn in Provence in the spring of 1889 and at that time was near its brightest possible. So the brightest "star" in the painting, just to the viewer's right of the cypress tree, is actually Venus.

The drawing Cypresses in Starry Night, a reed pen copy executed by Van Gogh after the painting in 1889. 

 Finally, the reason is what I want to choose this picture is my mother. When I was a little girl at the middle School, I was given a homework about Van Gogh. So I chose 'Starry Night' which is best-known works of his career. Furthermore, I tried to draw it and painted with my mum.


References: *http://www.biography.com/people/vincent-van-gogh-9515695#synopsis
                *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night