{"id":72,"date":"2025-09-24T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/24\/10-facts-about-vincent-van-gogh-and-his-famous-starry-night-painting-ex1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:26:00","slug":"10-facts-about-vincent-van-gogh-and-his-famous-starry-night-painting-ex1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/24\/10-facts-about-vincent-van-gogh-and-his-famous-starry-night-painting-ex1\/","title":{"rendered":"10 fascinating facts about Vincent van Gogh and his famous &#8216;Starry Night&#8217; painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to ask people to name famous paintings, <a data-linked-post=\"2658219692\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/starry-night-optical-illusion-ex1\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;The Starry Night&#8221;<\/a> would surely be among the top answers. The swirling blue and yellow sky is one of the most recognizable works of Western art, and <a data-linked-post=\"2671912267\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/van-gogh-painting-truly-seen-for-first-time-in-125-years-ex1\" target=\"_blank\">van Gogh is a household name<\/a> even among people who aren&#8217;t big <a data-linked-post=\"2671664279\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/jacque-jaujard-saves-louvre-art-from-nazis\" target=\"_blank\">art connoisseurs. <\/a><\/p><p>Most of us know a little bit about <a data-linked-post=\"2637391893\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/van-gogh-s-paintings-come-to-life-at-this-incredible-art-museum-come-take-a-tour\" target=\"_blank\">van Gogh<\/a> due to the dramatic story of him cutting off his own ear. But there&#8217;s also a lot of lore and legend ranging in accuracy about the man and his art, so it&#8217;s worth doing a dive into some true fascinating facts about both. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\">video from <em>Great Art Explained<\/em><\/a> provides a concise but comprehensive overview of who he was and how he worked, giving us a bigger picture of the legend as well as his most famous piece. <\/p>        <p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\">        \t\t<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-has-aspect-ratio \"> \n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/wk9L1N9bRRE\/hqdefault.jpg)\" class=\"rkv-video-placeholder \" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"wk9L1N9bRRE\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Play video\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"17\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 17 20\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M16.5 9.75047C16.5006 10.0051 16.4353 10.2556 16.3105 10.4775C16.1856 10.6995 16.0055 10.8853 15.7875 11.017L2.28 19.2802C2.05227 19.4196 1.79144 19.4957 1.52445 19.5007C1.25746 19.5056 0.993989 19.4392 0.76125 19.3083C0.530728 19.1794 0.338696 18.9914 0.204904 18.7637C0.0711107 18.536 0.000385179 18.2768 0 18.0127V1.48828C0.000385179 1.22417 0.0711107 0.964934 0.204904 0.737222C0.338696 0.509511 0.530728 0.321545 0.76125 0.192655C0.993989 0.0617322 1.25746 -0.00468706 1.52445 0.0002572C1.79144 0.00520146 2.05227 0.0813301 2.28 0.220781L15.7875 8.4839C16.0055 8.6156 16.1856 8.80145 16.3105 9.0234C16.4353 9.24534 16.5006 9.49582 16.5 9.75047Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t                        <\/p>            <p>Here are some facts the average person might not know about Vincent van Gogh:<\/p><h3>Van Gogh didn&#8217;t start painting until his late 20s and only painted for a decade.<\/h3><p>For such a famous artist, van Gogh didn&#8217;t paint for very long. He didn&#8217;t seriously begin painting until around age 27, but he dedicated himself fully to his art until he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest at age 37. Still, his prolific talent was legendary, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/essays\/vincent-van-gogh-1853-1890\" target=\"_blank\">created some 900 paintings<\/a>, and over 2,000 pieces of art overall, during his decade of work. He had just begun being recognized for his artistic talents when he died, and most of his famous paintings were created in his final two years of life.<\/p><h3>Van Gogh spent time in a mental institution, but it wasn&#8217;t your typical asylum experience. <\/h3><p>In 1889, van Gogh was admitted into a mental asylum outside Saint Remy, France. But unlike the overcrowded public mental institutions in large cities, the small asylum only had 41 patients and was run by a progressive doctor who believed in treating mentally ill people with kindness and understanding. Art and nature were seen as healing, and doctors quickly realized that van Gogh wouldn&#8217;t survive if he didn&#8217;t have the freedom to paint and create. He spent all of his waking hours painting and created many of his most well-known works\u2014including &#8220;The Starry Night&#8221;\u2014while gazing out his barred asylum window at the beautiful countryside dotted with olive groves and vineyards or wandering the purposefully planted gardens.  <\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\">        <figure class=\"rkv-rebelmouse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/qa-upworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/origin-77969.jpg\" alt=\"vincent van gogh, painting, art, irises, master\" \/><figcaption>Van Gogh painted   <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3e\/Irises-Vincent_van_Gogh.jpg\/640px-Irises-Vincent_van_Gogh.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">upload.wikimedia.org<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>                        <\/p><h3>Most of the time, he was perfectly lucid and rational.<\/h3><p>Today, van Gogh would likely be diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7604278\/\" target=\"_blank\">bipolar disorder<\/a>, and his behavior during manic episodes\u2014like cutting off his own ear and giving it to a prostitute\u2014have planted in people&#8217;s minds  a picture of van Gogh as a crazed lunatic. However, he was actually lucid and rational most of the time. Not only that, but he was intelligent and extremely well-read, spoke four languages, and had lifelong friends as well as a close relationship with his brother and sister-in-law. The history-defining ear incident was not his usual modus operandi. In fact, the video notes that he was &#8220;probably the sanest patient at St. Remy.&#8221; <\/p><h3>He also had syphilis. <\/h3><p>This fact can&#8217;t really be separated from his mental illness challenges, as <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5175054\/\" target=\"_blank\">syphilis can cause psychiatric problems.<\/a><\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\">        <figure class=\"rkv-rebelmouse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/qa-upworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/origin-77970.jpg\" alt=\"theo van gogh, vincent van gogh brother, art history, illness, health\" \/><figcaption>Theo van Gogh, Vincent&#039;s younger brother, helped support him throughout his life.  <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3c\/Theo_van_Gogh_%281888%29.jpg\/640px-Theo_van_Gogh_%281888%29.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Public Domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>                        <\/p><h3>Van Gogh&#8217;s brother Theo was his biggest supporter. <\/h3><p>Throughout his life, van Gogh&#8217;s younger brother Theo supported him in every way: financially, emotionally, and artistically. An art dealer himself, Theo encouraged his brother to develop his painting skills. Theo paid for Vincent&#8217;s treatment at the asylum and was also the one who insisted he be able to paint there. Much of what we know about van Gogh comes from letters he wrote to Theo, and the two shared a close bond. Theo was with Vincent when he died, two days after shooting himself in the chest. Theo, who also had syphilis, would die just six month later from the effects of the disease.<\/p><h3>Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;The Starry Night&#8221; was influenced by Japanese art.<\/h3><p>Like many of his Western colleagues at the time, van Gogh was influenced by art from Japan, and many of his paintings reflect elements of Japanese prints. He was an admirer of Hokusai&#8217;s &#8220;The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,&#8221; and it&#8217;s not a stretch to see how it may have inspired the swirl pattern and blue colors of &#8220;The Starry Night.&#8221; <\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\">        <figure class=\"rkv-rebelmouse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/qa-upworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/origin-77971.jpg\" alt=\"the great wave, japanes painting, kanagawa, hakusai, van gogh, the starry night\" \/><figcaption>Hokusai&#039;s   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/photos\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo credit: Canva<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>                        <\/p><h3>Van Gogh tried to poison himself with paints and turpentine a few weeks before painting &#8220;The Starry Night.&#8221;<\/h3><p>The bright colors that marked the last five years of van Gogh&#8217;s art also nearly took his life. New techniques in creating pigments in paints led to a dramatic shift from dark, brooding paintings to bright, colorful ones as van Gogh entered his peak years. But his mental health also took dramatic turns, and prior to painting &#8220;The Starry Night&#8221; in 1889, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/en\/art-and-stories\/vincent-van-gogh-faq\/did-van-gogh-eat-yellow-paint\" target=\"_blank\">medical notes from the asylum<\/a> indicate that he drank paint and turpentine as a suicide attempt. <\/p><h3>Van Gogh became very religious but eventually lost his faith in Christianity.<\/h3><p>Van Gogh was raised by a Christian minister father and developed a deep religious faith, even becoming an evangelical preacher himself for a time. But later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/en\/art-and-stories\/vincent-van-gogh-faq\/was-van-gogh-religious\" target=\"_blank\">his relationship with religion morphed<\/a> into a belief that the divine was expressed in nature, art, and human emotion rather than the church.<\/p><h3>Van Gogh considered &#8220;The Starry Night&#8221; a failure.<\/h3><p>With his standards for himself set impossibly high, van Gogh felt that many of his paintings were failures, including, apparently, &#8220;The Starry Night.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/van-goghs-night-visions-131900002\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote to fellow\npainter Emile Bernard<\/a> several months after painting it, &#8220;I have been slaving away on nature the whole year, hardly thinking of impressionism or of this, that and the other. And yet, once again I let myself go reaching for stars that are too big\u2014a new failure\u2014and I have had enough of it.&#8221;<\/p><h3>Van Gogh was entirely wrong about his own legacy.<\/h3><p> Less than two months before his suicide in 1890, van Gogh wrote to a critic who had praised his work in a Paris newspaper, &#8220;It is <em>absolutely certain<\/em> that I shall never do important things.&#8221; Though he had started to see some success as an artist, there was no inkling that he would become one of the most famous and iconic artists of all time. If he had lived, he might have seen the full recognition of his artistic genius in his lifetime or he may not have. But as it was, he died believing himself to be an insignificant failure. <\/p><p>There may be many lessons we can glean from van Gogh&#8217;s story, but perhaps the biggest is to not discount our own talents, skills, or contributions. Like him, we may not be seeing the full picture.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know bits and pieces about the man and his art, but likely don&#8217;t have the full picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alternative_headline":"","alternative_description":"","alternative_featured_image":0,"rkv_announcement":{"visible":true},"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"partner_boost":false,"hide_partner_badge":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,2514,146],"tags":[135,2579,1013,2580,2581,2582,434,157,2583,2584,2585,2586,2587],"sponsor":[],"rkv-people-shadow":[149,216],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-education-history","category-popular","tag-popular_source-pageview","tag-19th-century-art","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-famous-artists","tag-famous-painters","tag-history","tag-mental-health","tag-painting","tag-the-starry-night","tag-van-gogh","tag-van-gogh-ear","tag-vincent-van-gogh"],"edit_link":null,"apple_news_notices":[],"rkv_author":{"id":149,"name":"Parker Molloy","display_name":"Parker Molloy","first_name":"","last_name":"","nickname":"","url":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/author\/parker-molloy\/","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/author\/parker-molloy\/","description":"<p>Parker Molloy is a feminist who cares a lot about culture, politics, media, and the Chicago Cubs. 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