This fact sheet gives biographical information about Van Gogh as well as information about his painting The Starry Night. Use as artistic inspiration or as an addition to an art history lesson. Twinkl Parents Activities and Games Activities and Games Craft Activities Painting. September 13, 2022. This book covers Vincent Van Gogh’s time at the St Paul asylum in Provence. A remarkable amount of work was produced in his just over a year stay including his most famous painting Starry Night. Detailing his health, his work and more, this is an informative read with wonderful illustrations. Unusually for Van Gogh, he signed the work (Vincent), in the lower-right corner, and even gave it a title: “Le café de nuit”. Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum (White Lion Publishing Van Gogh’s Cypresses Previews May 16; opens May 22-Aug. 27, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., 212-535-7710; metmuseum.org. Deborah Solomon is an art critic and biographer who is 2 The artist’s initial career aspiration was to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a pastor. Image source: www.biography.com. In fact, before Van Gogh found his true calling as an artist, he took up and, subsequently, quit many jobs. His first job was as a trainee with an art dealership in the Hague, when he was 16. Most of his contemporaries made fun of his paintings and never tried to understand it. 9. He was influenced by Japanese art. Vincent Van Gogh, Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom (1890) In 1890, he wrote to his family about his painting Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom. In this letter, he explained how Japanese art had influenced him. The World-Changing Trees of Vincent van Gogh. In “Van Gogh’s Cypresses,” a new show at the Met, the artist seems to bend nature itself toward his brush. Van Gogh’s “Wheat Field with Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night is regarded as one of the most valuable paintings ever made. It is estimated that the painting will be worth more than $100 million dollars. Until his death in 1891, his brother Theo van Gogh had been in charge of the collection. Jo van Gogh-Bonger took over the collection after her husband’s death. An art history professor at UCLA, with the help of astronomers, attempted to identify the objects in the night sky depicted in Starry Night as seen by van Gogh from that asylum window in 1889. The stars and planets in the night sky as seen by Vincent van Gogh, the inspiration for his famous painting, Starry Night. Van Gogh entered the Saint-Paul-de Mausole Asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, after a mental breakdown in late 1888. He painted The Starry Night based on the view from his second-story B9dAU.