Shock Discovery: Van Gogh’s Starry Night Reveals Hidden Laws of Nature

EuroWeekly News ^ | 19 Sep 2024 | Marc Menendez

[pops88]

Sometimes God reveals secrets to those who pay attention, especially to His creation.

[central_va]

Van Gogh straddled the line between art and cartoon.

[Psalm 73]

“Spinning Away” (Brian Eno/John Cale) is a splendid song about this painting - it really captures the artist’s mind-set while painting.

[Ge0ffrey]

When you look at Van Gogh’s paintings in person, you realize he’s highly overrated.

[bunkerhill7]

You can see these whirls/whorls forming after you wash the dishes and stare at the water settling before you drain it.
Micro-macro....that`s probably where he saw it after Hortense washed the dishes.

[MikelTackNailer]

Had the good luck to check out the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam back in the 80s when security was minimal and you could get close to the works. I learned Vincent not only painted on canvas but often painted out with a built-up three dimensional layer effect that's totally lost with two dimensional photography.

But I'm not down with the author's premise that he was somehow perceptive of near-invisible laws of physics when too many of his later works better show his style changed over time due to advancing glaucoma.

[Nateman]

Images of the South Pole of Jupiter resemble this painting

[bunkerhill7]

You can also see whorls in foamy streams that have rapids and side pools... and also in flowing mud puddles after rainstorms...and in drafts of stopping boats at their sterns
cavitations ...nuthin new

[BrandtMichaels]

I heard he got blood on some of the paintings after cutting off his ear! /

[Organic Panic]

I was at an art gallery in Lahaina Maui and Anthony Hopkins was giving a reception for his paintings. Of course the snooty snobs had to ask all kinds of snooty questions. The best line of the night he said, “I just like painting. Why does there have to be a message behind everything?”

[SunkenCiv]

I’d never been a fan, and stumbled across an exhibition in Detroit years ago. As with the Impressionists, his works have WAY more impact in person. Prints are a very poor substitute.

[MayflowerMadam]

I don’t care for any Van Goghs I’ve seen, except this one. (I’m sure I haven’t seen them all though.)

[MayflowerMadam]

We bought a couple Red Skelton clown paintings at a Lahaina gallery. I guess it was late ‘70s or early ‘80s. My ex got them in the divorce.

[MikelTackNailer]

So glad you showed up. I've got some things that have been slow to sell:

Got that last one at the Neverland Clearance Sale. Boys pants were half off.

[MayflowerMadam]

That Elvis one caught my attention. I’d be interested, but only if it’s on velvet.

[MikelTackNailer]

Truly a woman of discerning taste so I'll throw in this matador free of charge.

And it still has that authentic motel room smell!

Seriously though, Red Skelton and my father (both in vaudeville way back) had a raging fistfight. Over a dancer who snubbed them both for a stage hand. Some themes in life persist through time.

[simpson96]

“How Did Van Gogh Do It?”

It’s a coincidence, and they “read into it”, that’s how.

[Mogger]

His painting explains how Amsoil works, reducing temperatures in engines and gearboxes by around 50 degrees.

Turbulent flow vs laminar.

[bunkerhill7]

also explains women`s hairdo`s.

[minnesota_bound]

Van Gogh just looked at the clouds rolling by.