It is a simple depiction of the Saint – Remy-de-Provence, during night time, rather romantic and made with strokes of precision. The painting is a depiction of the artist’s memory of what he sees outside his window in the moonlight.
The Museum of Modern Art has made this painting a part of its permanent collection. Vincent Van Gogh was a famous Dutch post impressionist artist and one of his most renowned works includes ‘The Starry Night’. This may be used as a precedent to understanding famous works of oil paintings in the world, for example Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’. Since the 60s, various forms of art including the cubist movement, three dimensional art, sculptures etc have taken precedence over plain canvas paintings because they bring to life what is being made instead of just depicting a drawing of the same.īerger’s third composition talks about using oil paints to reflect art. This example has been taken in order to understand the tricks that one’s eyes may play on them and today, artists have exploited this very opportunity in order to create fresh and modern forms of art. Thus, the physical world does not necessarily determine the complete truth about the world. Up till the time she remained within her confined black and white world, she was under the impression that she had all the physical knowledge in the world, however, since she enters the Technicolor world she understands that the complete physical truth is not the whole truth.
The eyes of a human being are subjective to what they see like Frank Jackson’s Mary leaves her black and white room for the first time to see a red tomato, a blue sky and other colours around her. Furthermore, Berger talks about how colour photography has taken over the role of oil painting however the context is reversed because the photograph is now made to look like an oil painting.
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