配色-罗纳河上的星夜Starry Night Over the Rhone

作者：Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh

作品名称：Starry Night Over the Rhone

中文名称：罗纳河上的星夜

创作时间：1888 年

画作尺寸：72.5 x 92 cm

绘画类型：布面油画

流派：后印象派

题材：风景画

收藏于：Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

From the moment he arrived in Arles on February 8, 1888, Van Gogh was preoccupied with the performance of the "night effect".
1888年4月，他写信给他的弟弟西奥：“我需要一个有柏树的繁星之夜，或者也许是在一片成熟的麦田之上。” 6 月，他向画家埃米尔·伯纳德 (Emile Bernard) 吐露心声：“但我什么时候才能画出星空，这幅一直萦绕在我心头的画作”，9 月，他在给妹妹的一封信中提到了同样的主题：“通常它在我看来，夜晚比白天色彩更丰富”。在九月的同一个月，他终于实现了他的痴迷项目。

He first painted a corner of the night sky at the Cafe Terrace (Otterlo, Rijksmof Kröller-Muller) in the Forum Square in Arles. Next came this image of the Rhone, in which he wonderfully recorded the colors he perceived in the darkness. Blues prevailed: Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt blue. City gas lamps flickered with intense orange, reflected in the water.

The stars sparkled like jewels. A few months later, having just been admitted to a mental hospital, Van Gogh painted another version of the same theme: The Starry Night (New York, Museum of Modern Art), which fully expressed the violence of his troubled mind. The trees were shaped like flames, while the sky and stars swirled in the cosmic vision. The starry night at the Musée d'Orsay was more peaceful, and the atmosphere was enhanced by the presence of a couple at the bottom of the canvas.