A Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh's A Starry Night is the most popular painting in the world. Van Gogh used oil paints over canvas to create this landscape painting in 1889. Van Gogh produced over 2,000 paintings, drawings, and sketches during his lifetime. Van Gogh's works are great, but this painting is his best.
As the title suggests, it is a landscape of the night sky with a yellow moon and circular-shaped stars over a small village. Van Gogh used a combination of bright colors to recreate the scene of a night sky. It is said that Van Gogh used both imagination and memory to create this scene. It is obvious that Van Gogh felt very peaceful while he painted this piece of art. When people look at the painting, they feel as if they are standing under a starlit sky, enjoying the view.
The surface of the painting is not smooth as with most paintings or photographs. Van Gogh used a series of brush strokes to achieve this texture. This texture adds more value and beauty to the painting. The painting became more popular in 1941, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought it from a painting collector.
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Which sentence would the author most likely include in the passage?
A.
Van Gogh believed that nighttime was more lively and richly colored than daytime.
B.
Van Gogh was born in Holland, studied art in Belgium, and eventually moved to France.
C.
Van Gogh's still life paintings are also well known, particularly his sunflowers series.
D.
Van Gogh's interactions with other artists in Paris influenced his Post-Impressionist style.