They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...
Van Gogh painted Starry Night in June 1889 ... Van Gogh was definitely not using fluid dynamics knowledge, but likely drawing on general observations of the sky or other naturally occurring ...
He is undoubtedly one of the world's best-known painters, and his paintings never fail to draw crowds ... over 2,000 canvas and drawings. The Starry Night is one of the many stages in Vincent ...