STARRY STARRY NIGHT

Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul...

Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand What you tried to say, to me How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free: They would not listen; they did not know how --
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand What you tried to say, to me How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free: They would not listen; they did not know how --
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you But still, your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night You took your life as lovers often do --
But I could have told you, Vincent: This world was never meant For one as beautiful as you.

Starry, Starry night Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know What you tried to say, to me And how you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free:
They would not listen; they're not listening still --
Perhaps they never will.


Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890)

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"Starry Night over the Rhone" (Arles, September 1888) by Vincent Van Gogh

"Vincent's Bedroom in Arles" (Arles, October 1888) by Vincent Van Gogh

Impressionism

The Impressionism art movement was a theory or practice in painting especially
among French painters of from 1874 to 1886,
depicting the natural appearances of objects by means of dabs or strokes of primary
unmixed colors in order to simulate actual reflected light.
A style of painting that concentrates on the general tone and
effect produced by a subject without elaboration of details.

Claude Monet was a French painter born 1840 in Paris, France and died 1926 in Giverny, France.
Monet was associated with the Impressionism movement.


"Une Allée du jardin de Monet, Giverny"(1902) by Claude MONET 1902

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"Le Jardin de Monet, les iris"(Giverny,1900) by Claude MONET

Claude Monet (1840-1926)