Starry Night Over The Rhone

Starry Night Over the Rhone, a popular painting that was that was drawn in September 1888 by an expressionist artist, Vincent van Gogh. Starry Night Over the Rhone is the painting that is said to have given Vincent the perspective that he employed in his later Starry Night paintings. It is differentiated from other Vincent’s Starry Night paintings because it contains human beings. Inclusion of human forms in this painting has a lot of significance because they add a touch of natural quality. They also enable the painting to have a natural environmental setting that is pleasurable to look at.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks but received little recognition during his lifetime.

Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists.

Van gogh attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.