He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers found ...

The study authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint to see if the laws that apply ...

Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night (1889), created (along with several other masterpieces) during the artist’s stay at an asylum in Arles following his breakdown in December ...

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The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new analysis by ...

When Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced "The Starry Night" in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind. Yet according to a new ...

A Dutch artist has recreated Van Gogh's "Starry Night" as a bike trail. — -- A Vincent Van Gogh Masterpiece is the inspiration behind a design for the world's first glow-in-the-dark bike path in ...

The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists. Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of ...

Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. One word kept popping up to describe the artist’s work and ...