One night, as I was on my way home, I looked at the night sky for the stars. It seemed like that I missed these heavenly fireflies because of the continuous and heavy rainfall the past few days. With excitement, my heart cheered and I smiled by myself. One person came into my mind who I had given credit for my artistic fascination of the stars… Vincent Van Gogh.
One of his night sky-inspired paintings, the “Starry Night” was really amazing. Even though this painting was made during Van Gogh’s sanitarium days, modern art enthusiasts would say that these days were few of those honing days in the history of art. This Van Gogh masterpiece has risen to the peak of artistic achievements that although he only sold one painting in his lifetime, the fame of his works after his death was very viral that they inspired and continuously inspiring painters of different generations.
And for me, he even made the sky his canvas.
Van Gogh was a broken hearted lad, a hot-tempered drunkard, an untidy artist, a “yellow” person, admirer of wheat fields, a semi-mad person who resembles the “House” TV Series main character Hugh Laurie, a post-impressionist artist, a lover of heavenly bodies. In whatever descriptions the world may give him, he is one of those artists from the past that I believe that had evidently shaped the modern world and even made fans of today educated of the difference between sanity and insanity. That decisions should be thought twice or trice before doing something that would do bad, like Van Gogh cutting a portion of his right ear, or doing the right thing, like also him doing his art masterpieces.
Don McLean's song "Starry Starry Night", I mean "Vincent", is still being played on radios today. This music still links people, links me to the artistic and crazy past of Vincent Van Gogh in his lifetime in Europe in the mid-1800’s. This links me to the beauty of the stars. And because there are countless ways of not forgetting the images of his outstanding starry-artwork, night skies will always be here, behind cloudy skies or in the other side hiding in the sunshine...and a happy and content Vincent will be singing along with us, celebrating the gifts he had received for himself... also the gifts he had given the world.
