The Starry Night

Painting · 1889 · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence · Europe

The view from an asylum window turned into a vortex, the best-known sky in painting

Author: Vincent van Gogh
Style: Post-Impressionism — After Impressionism: colour and form serve structure, symbol and emotion, not the passing moment
Century: 19th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1893 The Scream — Edvard Munch · Expressionism · Kristiania (Oslo)
1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
1907–1908 The Kiss — Gustav Klimt · Art Nouveau · Vienna
1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Pablo Picasso · Cubism · Paris, Bateau-Lavoir
1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
1915 Black Square — Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde · Moscow
1889 Morning in a Pine Forest — Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Savitsky · Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) · Saint Petersburg
c. 1890–1895 The Card Players — Paul Cézanne · Post-Impressionism · Aix-en-Provence