The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair 

and maybe bad eyesight too

Maybe his eyes were filled with tears.

Yes once I wrote this for an art appraisal competition conducted by my English department And guess what I lost

@@shanmathi5747 What??? Tell me.......

Exactly

Rain Miao he was overrated tho

央礼 some “artsy” people made him overrated

@@drcommondrate12 nah he was barely recognized during the time he was alive

央礼 he is, and always will be an incredible artist though

Precisy may be for us But maynot be for generations to come.

A painting is never done.

He actually was disappointed after painting the starry night.

around Annebel He thought that painting was failure

A lot of the paintings from that time period were very swirly. There was definitely something going on.

He was dead in the end, posthumously appreciated It's a tragedy like Nietzsce and Poe.

Well, some paints have toxic ingredients in them. Not sure if that might have contributed to the mental condition. Like Titanium white, has powdered metal in it. Probably not good to inhale. I wonder if he made his own paint colors or if they were sold somewhere? Or perhaps the sky looked different back then. The Scream painting was made after large volcanic activity. The sky had ash in it for a long time.

Great artists have a sensible and peculiar mind, that's why they often suffer from mental problems- because of the way they perceive things. The things that happen during their lives aren't the causes

@@CheshireCat01 *The things that happen in their lives, as well as the way they perceive it, they both play a huge role in determining their emotional state.* 1. When you are an emotionally more sensitive person who is different than majority of people and you are born in a time period, when being different, regardless of being misunderstood, is not shunned by the society, it leads you to experience the peace of mind, merely because of being socially accepted. Regardless of whether you prioritize "blending in with the society's standards" or not, it does bring us happiness to have a lot of supporters. 2. When you are an emotionally sensitive person who is different than the majority of the people around you and you are also born in a time period when difference of any kind isn't welcome, too many narrow minded people. Now people won't just "not accept" you the way you are, they won't just let you be at peace either. They'd try to change you, say you are emotionally stunted, say u aren't "normal" merely cuz they don't understand you, etc. Hence ruining your peace of mind. It surely does bring us pain when the society doesn't treat us normally merely because of not fitting in to their standards. The example 1 and 2, both involved emotionally sensitive people. They do not have a different way of perceiving things. But one has a more peaceful state of mind, because of not being bothered by the masses of people for not fitting in, which wasn't the case for the other one. *Only when someone practices stoicism or abstinence or something similar,* only then we can surely say that the events in their life, events caused due to where, when and who they are surrounded with, won't be a cause to their emotional issue. For example, monks from the ancient days to the monks in current generation. The core of their lifestyle focuses on not being strayed away by any materialistic things, one of the key things which leads to them having an extremely peaceful state of mind. -I'd proudly say how I'm on the path to eternal monkhood, but it isn't out of choice, hence I don't have peace 0^0-

So, being roasted since day 1 has some good benefits in the long run after all.... good, good.

As they did to Sushant Singh Rajput

As an art teacher you should know that the name of the painting is The Starry Night, not just Starry Night.

What a brilliant class, I’m sure your students still get a lot out of that experience. You’ve inspired my to try it. Thanks, teach. :)

@@judithhermes9821 it doesnt matter

@@austeyen5628 It mattered to van Gogh. He named the painting The Starry Night. Who are you to change it? Who are you to dismiss his name?

@@judithhermes9821 i bet he doesnt care anymore

Scientists in there questionable sanity behold the heavens and scribe what they see; there medium? Equations and theories, is there really that much of a difference?:o

+Dorothy-Clare Jacobs NO way he took any of this into consideration, and that is the beauty, genius, and talent of Van Gogh. He was able to depict such a complex physical phenomenon to such a degree of accuracy through his unique perceptive eyes

+Andy Austin I think it is called Absinthe :D. Drinking Absinthe is as close as it gets to seeing the world through van Goghs eyes. See for yourselves and watch the nightsky. But dont bring a knife to the party ;). (spoon should be fine)

I think it wasn't intentional, but there definitely has to be something that connects this facts. Maybe he was able to see something else. Maybe he had a way of seeing his feelings. Who knows.

Well, yes it is broken down into mathematics and while the truth is undoubtedly that he he did not take these things into consideration, it has also to be noted that Van Gogh was very well aware of what he was drawing and not only has read but also profoundly studied the theories of art. Reducing Van Gogh to a thoughtless, ill minded drunkard does by no means do him and his works justice. But as it seems it is quite popular nowadays to reduce art to something that is no less than a spontaneous act and treat it as such.

stereotypes? Where? hahaha

LOL

+crixxxxxxxxx Russian mathematician at 2:08 should have a vodka in his left hand and an ak47 on his right hand ;p

+crixxxxxxxxx And those of England suitcases, umbrellas and hats, though a monocle was missing there lol

+Elizabeth Ochoa But he does have a monocle! 3:11

Kristy Wells Beautiful :)

and what when someone is getting tortured for no good reason?

378 That’s when Hades comes in, makes sense right?

True

How beautiful ♡

Once we see one too many memes related to the word "crack", quotes like that hit on a different level >x"D

That sounds like a horrible appropriation of Leonard Cohen's lyric.

R.D. Laing was a psychiatrist who had a unique perspective on mental illness and most likely influenced Leonard Cohen, not the other way round.

He admitted in that same sentence that he isn't very knowledgeable. Why do you still think he's a genius?

@@Mgtr14 only truly intelligent people can say that they don't know much.

@@srishtichaudhary3580 I'd say that it's always given that one's knowledge has it's limits. Van Gogh makes it sound like he doesn't know much at all.

I think a true genius knows that they don’t kno everything. Information is infinite

@@Mgtr14 Then same can be said for Socrates. And you know what, you're completely right. I know everything, so I'm the most genius of all. Must be true, because I say so.

I agree, I feel so much for him, in his struggle. Went to Arles and saw some places he painted, also, went to the sanitarium, St. Paul de Mausole where he stayed after the ear incident. Looked out of the window in his room. Powerful moments for me. Am grateful to have been where he’d been.

Maybe you just need to see the original one more time

Maybe the rapport you share with your friends and relatives have changed over the years.

rimas14 I don’t think it looks as good small. Maybe you need to get a bigger version, or hold the postcards up to your face. Lots of things feel less powerful for me than when I was young. I feel like it’s because I’m not literally looking up at them anymore. When you look up at something instead of even with it, you feel a lot smaller and it feels a lot bigger. I think being bigger than when I was a kid is a part of it. Now I’m even with most the stuff I look at instead of being below it.

I think because you've seen it one too many times. And your reaching so hard trying to love it that u end up not loving it. Also, it's very overrated in postcards and stuff.

Hey, try looking at " the cafe terrace at night " It always makes me feel so cozy and calm

indeed...

And then is the question, is it indeed worthy to be extraordinary?

@@jakubzajac8585 Being _extraordinary_ is better than being _ordinary._ As being _alive_ with pain is still better than just _living._

Beautiful answer.@@1..0w0..3

I have never known Van Gogh could be talented in this way!

Wow

Art is a combination of psychological strategies through the medium of use which is ultimately the technical science behind it to communicate a visual message, which is either personally interpreted or universally recognized (or both). Coming from an Art Degree student. Van Gogh legacy lives in all artists today when interpretating their work. You should always underline the personal and universally recognized meaning behind it.

Art is personal yet universal. Science is general and impersonal. Psychology is the objective take on the subjective states of our mind. Hopefully that made sense.

@@lyingeyes5579 👏👏

Van Gogh didnt paint The Scream lol

I don't think it is really what one would call "smartness". I bet that he painted this pattern intuitively. Wouldn't be surprised at all if this pattern occurs in our own brains or at least can be "sensed" by our brains in an instinctive way. Maybe birds or fish need it when encountering such turbulence in the air or the water. Life came from fluids, life is full of fluids, and fluids are often turbulent.

Jacob Sode Edward Munch is the painter of "The scream" not Van Gogh. ;-;

he wasn't crazy he's ill. u just cant call someone crazy, no reservations. done. case closed.

He know things that he can't explained

spot on

KidsWithGuns1992 you got it perfectly dude, you ain't a dumbass. hell you're smarter than most of us.

Exactly right :)

In a nutshell bruh

Yeah ....

Don McClean.

And so I sing along.

Now i understand what you tried to say to me. And how you suffered for your sanity. And how you tried to set them free. They would not listen, their not listening still. Perhaps they never will

Will Ferrous--There is an art program that was used about 15 years ago in the district in which I taught (retired now). It brought together literature, art, music, poetry, vocabulary, and an art technique. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" was one of the units and Don McLean's song was featured in the unit. After teaching that unit, I loved the song even more than when it first aired on my local radio station in 1971.

Yes of course

+boo rants I loled to hard at this

+The Beatbox god you laughed out louded to hard at this?

Amookoo Hykera fuckin oath mate

+boo rants People in Holland laughted at me when I tried to pronouce Van Gogh...

+boo rants I've had the exact same lecture from some mad Dutch woman I've not seen since. I still go with Goff...

+Trinity Frank probably the most likely conclusion

+Trinity Frank he also had constant beating noises going off like a bell in his head , how do you explain that, HUH?!

oui

yes

Comment of the century....

Yea that murderer that went crazy? NAHHHH hes just genius

@Rs Ok i agree with the first bit but bro. Some people like psychopaths and sociopaths and the like are born that way. Some people with mental illnesses made themselves that way. I hate how people think like you. 😐

I thought i was the only one who cried watching it. High five ✋ 😊

+Catarina Xavier I cried too..is so beautiful

i cried too

it is 3 pm and I know the pain

Awww...I'll come and hug you....wait, this was two years ago...probably this hug will be useless now....

try learning psychology. you can't unsee the connections in your peers.

Vinnie Davis waat

Lol that cracked me up.

watch anything Trump has said...

+whirlpool4 lol agree bout trump

the idependent party sound pritty good right now

This video is what happens when liberal arts majors are allowed to believe they are smart.

Any Arts Major*

do you have to be psychotic to use your mind to the fullest?

Perhaps

Not strange. Van Gogh may have actually seen things more clearly, and beyond the surfaces, than many realized (according to the video Physicist, among others). Clarity is a relief, in a world of confusing noise; just another wonderul ripple effect of his genius. I find his nighttime paintings particularly calming.

Yes, I'm drawn to it in my way also

Same

Where to start. Van Gogh was not epileptic (Google it...) but was given digitalis to address what were psychiatric issues that were thought to be epilepsy. He suffered from a number of psychiatric issues. His brother Theo, an art dealer in Paris,, completely (not "basically") supported Vincent during the 10 years that he was painting. Van Gogh produced nearly 1000 works of art - about one every 3 days (not 3000 paintings, which would have been about one a day!) .....the name of the painting is THE Starry Night not just Starry NIght and it is owned and permanently on display at MOMA (unless MOMA takes it down for some reason). Sorry to be a schoolmarm here, but...facts are facts and the mis-statements about Van Gogh are everywhere, and, here, too many to ignore..

At the end therr especially!

Dr Gachet probably gave him some macrodoses of psilocybin

He did the impossible even after so much of torment. Such a great soul he had.

I was just about to write that.

Actually, newly discovered historical evidence (a letter from a worker at the place where he admitted himself) shows exactly where he cut his ear off - and its all of it.

Devin O'Brien same

ThePurple huh...

real Van Gogh fans stand up 🙌🙌

Found this comment so I think you may be onto something: Georgina Tuohy "Van Goth was treated for epilepsy with digitalis which can cause a yellow green tint in vision and yellow spots surrounded by coronas. This may have been why he made Starry night, because that's how he saw the sky on medication. Well that's the theory anyways." Thanks for sharing!

Same! En dan gaan andere Engels talige mensen zeggen dat het "van Goff" is, denkend dat ze slim zijn en het goed hebben. Hoe moeilijk is het om gewoon op te zoeken hoe het in het Nederlands klinkt

And what's the right way, please? Can you make a transcription?

TheCamillo4ka paste his name (van Gogh) in google translate(Dutch) and listen to it.

The google translator says [hoh]. Correct pronounciation? In Russian we say smth between [gok] and [gog] :-)

TheCamillo4ka yeah but it’s not correct. Change the language to Dutch and then listen to it. Hope you find it :)

😭

Van Gogh comitted suicide because he was depressed, not much mystery there

this again 🙄

@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 what do you mean

@@eash7741 it's still painful

Derpy Waffle I would believe he did, as he was a very very intelligent man.

No. Most certainly not. Jasmine Evans doesn't know what she's talking about.

It doesn't matter really.

mossy1 no one knows, but you would assume so seeing he was very smart? But there's no point arguing seeing he's dead and we will never know

Jasmine Evans My nephew draws light in almost the same exact way. Plenty of kids do. There's only a couple of ways to illustrate radiating light and this is one of them. Van Gogh wasn't a mathematician. And there's a saying about those who make assumptions..

To know what a man knows you must be that man. Some ppl truly need inspiration to create. Maybe rudimentary math was a talent he possessed.

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