Vincent Van Gogh 100 - The Starry Night Comments

A powerful biographical poem about an artist par excellence

This fills the readers heart with wonder and awe! .. Truly magnificent! .. Endless 10'S And Stars! ..++++++++++++++++++++++++

Beautifully mesmerizing! .. And deeply heart touching! ..

p.s. ***** stars Speaking of stars, my Google research shows the painting's name as 'The Starry Night', NOT 'The Starry Nights' nor 'Starry Nights'. Hmm? ? ? ? bri : )

(cont.) [[ WWll's Winston ('Winnie') Churchill was said to have spoken of 'blood, sweat, & tears'; years later Blood, Sweat, and Tears was the name of an American jazz rock band. ]]

stanza 3: oops! 'eight seven' or 'eighty seven' or 'eighty-seven'? It probably all means the same thing. : ) Now, I doubt painting too all of his 'blood'. (cont.)

Opium? Well, if it helped him to create 'great' art, why not? bri : )))))) I eat and get 'high' on ice cream BEFORE & after writing poems. ;)

(cont.) ....he (Vincent) would 'distract and comfort' himself with a 'stiff drink' or by smoking 'very heavily'. Absinthe? (considered hallucinogenic and dangerous) . (cont.)

Maybe the two people in the lower right corner are/were Vincent and Theo? Did Vincent 'do drugs'? ? It's been reported that 'V' wrote to 'T' that after finishing a painting (cont.)

(cont.) ....but I can't help but notice, Geeta, that you don't mention another 'magnificent creation': ME! ! ! i DO see 2 boats at the nearby shoreline and two nocturnal pedestrians. The sky IS beautiful!

stanza 1: '....highlighted the five elements of nature - Water, fire, earth, ether and air' I can't say that I see those five ['ether' here meaning [LITERARY]: 'the clear sky; the upper regions of air beyond the clouds', but....(cont.) .

Although I appreciate the style and colors and subject matter of what I've seen of Bill's paintings, I wouldn't make so much of his art (that I've seen) . [Alas, I never saw his 'Three Nude Girls at a Picnic'.]

Though I referred to 'van Gogh', alternately spelled 'Van Gogh', earlier as 'Vince' (in our drinking days) , I later just called him 'Bill'. : ) bri

(cont.) n just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. Wikipedia'

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.' (cont.)

I may have seen this work displayed in the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam a few years back. Oops! I guess it is in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. ;)

Geeta, I look forward to reading another of your biographical poems about my good friend and fellow 'artiste', Vince Gogh; we were in the same university fraternity together. bri : )

A beautiful poem well composed with an inspiring thoughts from a great artist and philosopher. Indeed, this magnificent creation is a celebration of life on earth. Thank you for sharing this poem, Dr. Geeta. Another great informative work.

I liked his philosophy in life. ' It did not matter how many days he lived on this earth, what mattered was how many stars he could embrace.' Very inspiring!

What a wonderful creation of Van Gogh. A masterpiece dominated by vivid blues and yellows reflecting the bright stars. A great work that will be remembered beyond his lifetime.