The secret of Van Gogh "STARRY NIGHT" / What scientists discovered about the 1889 artwork

2024-09-20 15:26:02 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE ALFA PRESS

The secret of Van Gogh "STARRY NIGHT" / What scientists discovered

Van Gogh created an impressive body of work, although he suffered deep emotional pain. Some of his paintings reveal a lot about his state of mind and his personality in general. An iconic painting that expresses the artist's agony and genius is "The Starry Night of 1889.

This work for scientists is extremely consistent with the astronomical principles of our sky. Which implies or rather alludes that the painter was way ahead of the scientific minds of the 19th century.

Van Gogh's paintbrushes seem to have calculated the points of even air flow, known as turbulence, that would cause changes in the visual appearance of the night sky. Strange but wonderful at the same time how he had painted the living work of skylight in a lightless studio.

The study has identified what scientists describe as a "hidden turbulence" within van Gogh's starry style. The artist seems to have compensated for principles in fluid dynamics that did not appear for almost 100 years later, such as a scale for air-energy movements designed by mathematician George Batchelor in 1959.

The study shows that the movement of Van Gogh's brushes are in accordance with the astronomical principles of the sky.
The current study authors examined different types of brushstrokes on canvas, in similar circumstances as leaves blowing in the wind to classify the atmospheric conditions of the wind such as its shape and energy.

Other factors related to the brightness within the different paint colors were also examined in relation to the energy of movement.

What scientists learned from looking at the 14 rotating shapes of "Starry Night" was that the painter had a strange connection to the movement of the earth and our natural sky.