Plus, reality is as we see it because we are humans not because it really is this way. To other conscious beings (say aliens) our existence might appear quite differently.
What I like about Starry Night is the feeling of vastness of space. Van Gogh really knew how to translate the feeling of infinite possibility if we could open our minds far enough. It's why he was a genius and why he was a little bit crazy.
Van Gogh’s masterpiece invites us to look up and feel the vast, gentle embrace of the cosmos, reminding us that beauty exists in chaos and peace in the unknown.
I’ve read that Van Gogh was actually an astronomy fan and read astronomy magazines. There was actually a popular astronomy magazine at the time that was available at the asylum where he was staying that had one of Camille Flamarrion’s sketches of the Whirlpool Galaxy. He could have easily seen that sketch and incorporated the Whirlpool in his painting.
I took a $20 Starry Night shower curtain and stretched it onto a five foot canvas, so I have an enormous Van Gough on my living room wall. I did the same with a $30 Marilyn Monroe photo on my other wall. They both get a lot of attention. I spent maybe $15 on some 1"x1" wood and a white bed sheet to make a canvas with a cross support. Just need screws, staples, and patience. An inexpensive piece of art the same size might cost hundreds of dollars.
@@erdemmemisyazici3950 That's not the point. It's a cheap, easy way to get a nice piece of decoration on the wall, one that everyone talks about when they walk in. As an artist, I can appreciate the time and effort it takes to create a piece of art, but I definitely can't afford anything more than a print.
I really enjoy watching these brothers converse on their various intellectual journeys. And a gift to boot!! They're both genuine and down to earth!!! 😃😃
Hey you guys. Thanks for the program. And Neil...to make you jealous...years back I found a cloisonné Tea Pot and a roll stamp dispenser...both with a Starry Night design. I'm also a fan of the art.
Hi My daughter & I were in France where a some artists learn to paint. I bought Starrynight painting from a street artist and it is gorgeous and hangs in my LR. 🌠
One explanation of Van Gogh's halos around the stars is that he suffered from lead poisoning, which affects vision and creates the illusion of auras around objects.
Or he could have had cataracts, which also does the same thing. I have cataracts and I am an artist. My eye doctor has been pushing me to get surgery which I have declined for now. She wanted to know why and I said I see the most fascinating effects, especially at night.
@waynehanley72 - Fuch's Corneal Dystrophy also makes you see halos around points of light as your corneas slowly deteriorate. It's pretty until you have to drive at night, then it can be very annoying.
Ok, so I used the Celestron SkyPortal app to take a look at the actual sky this was painted after. Even changed the Date to mid June 1889, and viewing location to Southern France. Not only is Starry Night spot on, but just realized the constellation Aries is smack dab in the middle, between the Crescent moon and Venus. That constellation at that time of day & year starts lower left, travels up to the right, then curls downward. Similar to the curl and twist as the painted "Swirl" in the middle of Van Gough's painting. I got a feeling this isn't a coincidence. . .
I just checked that with KStars and a moon-phase calculation script. Venus was close to the horizon at ENE, with Aries above it, but the Moon is way off to the side (the constellation between them being Pegasus), more to the south. Also its phase is slightly more than half, and waning, not a crescent, and Wikipedia confirms this with its image of the night sky at that place and time.
As an artist, a painting is designed or meant to draw ones eyes to what is most important or central to the subject of the painting, thus "starry nights".
Actually, Van Gogh might have seen the sky that way, since it was the practice of artists to wet their brushes on their lips/tongues to mix paints high in lead at the time. This could account for the tracery and fuzziness to him of stars, since the lights would seem to vibrate and flow.. It is my most favorite of his work.
It has been suggested that there might be another explanation for the swirls around the stars in Starry Night. In Van Gogh's time they couldn't go to the local art store and buy their paint. So...they made their own. White paint back then used lead instead of titanium dioxide as the pigment. It, of course, is highly toxic and in his time they had no real knowledge or understanding of these things. One of the symptoms of lead poisoning is that it can give victims halo vision and even mental disorders. Not saying that was the case. Just kinda makes you think. Breathing the lead oxide dust over years of making your paint could have had a long term effect. We know about lead paint chips and kids. It tastes sweet. Romans used it to sweeten their wine. Van Gogh may have licked his fingers while grinding the pigment to make his paint. Or just breathed the dust. But wouldn't that put an interesting twist on those crazy stars?
This makes sense. I have always suspected he might've been on some kind of natural hallucinogen or an unknown toxin that dilated his eyes and gave him blurry vision, halos around points of light, and hallucinated swirly patterns, and the painting was his capture of the experience. The fact that this was his actual view from the asylum and the positions of the Moon, stars, and Venus correspond to an actual day (possibly a specific weather event, according to some) pretty much tells me he didn't just plain make up the scene out of his imagination, it was based on his reality, even if exaggerated. A new study determined that the dynamics of his air fluid turbulence is actually mathematically accurate. He also may have been influenced by an astronomy journal he had seen at the asylum with sketches of the Whirlpool Galaxy. Really it could be a culmination of any or all of these. At any rate, I've loved it since I was a little girl, it's always been my favorite classic painting. And as an adult I'm into sky watching and astronomy, and and I have an affinity for tie-dye, go figure, lol..... 🤔
Four years ago?? Im just now finding this. I really enjoyed this. I enjoy all of these episodes. But this was special with some insight into one of my favorite paintings. Thank you 💖
What a tragic figure Van Gogh was. Such a torturous entire life from very young childhood. And, to express so much through his art that it continues to be a subject of discussion to this day.
the only part i don't agree is "first painting ever that was named for what was drawn in the background" part. when i look to the painting i see the starry sky as the main thing in the painting, not as the background, but the village and other things seem dark and insignificant.
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in van Gogh's Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to hidden turbulence in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes. The study was published September 17, 2024, in the journal "Physics of Fluids." Perhaps in some subconscious level Neil perceived the patterns as something more than just an artistic interpretation of reality.
Neil... literally 80% of the painting is of the sky...and Chuck acting like he hasn’t heard Neil explain this a hundred times already... I need a new full length cosmic queries !!
exactly what I thought.. when you look at the painting, it has eye catchy colours i.e. yellow in the sky that is supposed to grab your attention and everything else become the background so to speak.
I hope you've been to the immersion experiamce iv been twice now Liverpool and todya in Birmingham it's always an amazing experiance I love vamgigh and and especially the starry night painting and the spsiiraul side I never realised until I went to the immersion experiance but if u have please go!!!!!!
I remember hearing in one of my pharmacology classes that the thought was Van Gogh used to snack on purple foxglove flowers and was actually in digitalis toxicity she he painted this 🤷🏻♂️
When Chuck was talking about what he got for Neil I somehow saw him as a child and a man. That's not an insult, I mean I could... feel his timeline? I could recognize him as an aging human rather than a static adult.
I put glow in the dark stars on my ceiling in my bedroom... The constilations were all of my own invention, like Ka, the constrictor... Rocky the flying squirel... All my favourites from teen years. 😁. 💋💖💋💖😆😆🌵👵🐺🖖
I don't agree the picture is named for the background. The name is "Starry night", not "Starry sky". The night (and day too) exits on Earth and other planets and moons, not in Space. If you were in a spaceship on its way to Mars, could you say it's day or night outside?
You're lucky in that the real Starry Night is close to you at the Museum of Modern Art. I'm a Van Gogh specialist in Toronto. Oh, and I have that exact same pillow, by the way.
I have some of those credit card covers that each have a van Gogh painting on them. ----- From seeing his paintings, especially "Starry Night", I have often wondered if he had synesthesia.
Dear mr deGrasse Tyson. You unfortunately as many Americans pronounce van Gogh wrong. It is with a hard G in front and at the end. But I loved your video. We Dutch are very proud of Vincent. As are the French, where he lived the second part of his life.
Vincent was so poor that he painted over paintings because he couldn't afford canvases. Not only is it likely that he couldn't afford glasses but also it is quite possible that he had astigmatism and could also have been near sighted. If so, the heavens might have looked more like that to him that they look to those with 20/20 (corrected, or not). All I have to do is take off my glasses and I have twice or three times as many stars as when I'm wearing my glasses.
If you were traveling in space instead of standing on Earth, you wouldn’t be looking at the “sky,” because “sky” by definition is what we frame as that which we see when looking “up” from the “ground.” It is a concept we agree upon when looking at the rest of the universe from Earth, but it is really just “everything that is not Earth.”
"Art captures the emotion of reality."
He gets it! This guy really does know everything!
And imagination, not just reality.
Plus, reality is as we see it because we are humans not because it really is this way.
To other conscious beings (say aliens) our existence might appear quite differently.
"art at its best captures the emotion of the reality rather than the reality."
oh so that's art is for.
Jesus novela
That is basicly the idea of expressionism which van gogh was a pioneer of not all art should capture the emotion of reality
What I like about Starry Night is the feeling of vastness of space. Van Gogh really knew how to translate the feeling of infinite possibility if we could open our minds far enough. It's why he was a genius and why he was a little bit crazy.
Van Gogh’s masterpiece invites us to look up and feel the vast, gentle embrace of the cosmos, reminding us that beauty exists in chaos and peace in the unknown.
I’ve read that Van Gogh was actually an astronomy fan and read astronomy magazines. There was actually a popular astronomy magazine at the time that was available at the asylum where he was staying that had one of Camille Flamarrion’s sketches of the Whirlpool Galaxy. He could have easily seen that sketch and incorporated the Whirlpool in his painting.
Marc Bell should read this.
Neil gets Art! That is wonderful! The Starry night is a thoughtful gift!
I took a $20 Starry Night shower curtain and stretched it onto a five foot canvas, so I have an enormous Van Gough on my living room wall. I did the same with a $30 Marilyn Monroe photo on my other wall. They both get a lot of attention. I spent maybe $15 on some 1"x1" wood and a white bed sheet to make a canvas with a cross support. Just need screws, staples, and patience. An inexpensive piece of art the same size might cost hundreds of dollars.
Damn smart. Thank you for something to consider.
Nice
Yea but nobody but a machine and you spent time on it. When you pay for art you are purchasing a small piece of an artist's soul.
@@erdemmemisyazici3950 That's not the point. It's a cheap, easy way to get a nice piece of decoration on the wall, one that everyone talks about when they walk in. As an artist, I can appreciate the time and effort it takes to create a piece of art, but I definitely can't afford anything more than a print.
Lol I don't think Van Gough would have seen much of that money, anyway.
I really enjoy watching these brothers converse on their various intellectual journeys. And a gift to boot!! They're both genuine and down to earth!!! 😃😃
I love Under Lucky Stars. I got one for when I met my wife and for our wedding. Brother, both were no doubt about it homeruns.
I never knew that. Van Gogh actually painted the sky as it was one night. Fabulous.
A great scientist speaking about an incredible artist.
Hey you guys. Thanks for the program. And Neil...to make you jealous...years back I found a cloisonné Tea Pot and a roll stamp dispenser...both with a Starry Night design. I'm also a fan of the art.
Hi
My daughter & I were in France where a some artists learn to paint. I bought Starrynight painting from a street artist and it is gorgeous and hangs in my LR. 🌠
The map of the sky for any given day is so cool, I love it!
One explanation of Van Gogh's halos around the stars is that he suffered from lead poisoning, which affects vision and creates the illusion of auras around objects.
Or he could have had cataracts, which also does the same thing. I have cataracts and I am an artist. My eye doctor has been pushing me to get surgery which I have declined for now. She wanted to know why and I said I see the most fascinating effects, especially at night.
@waynehanley72 - Fuch's Corneal Dystrophy also makes you see halos around points of light as your corneas slowly deteriorate. It's pretty until you have to drive at night, then it can be very annoying.
I like what Dr. Tyson said about art. I agree. It says something that TH-cam is so full of hyper realistic art.
Starry Night is also my favorite painting. It's so beautiful.
the phrase made me listen to Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) again
That is his best composition. I love it.
Ok, so I used the Celestron SkyPortal app to take a look at the actual sky this was painted after. Even changed the Date to mid June 1889, and viewing location to Southern France. Not only is Starry Night spot on, but just realized the constellation Aries is smack dab in the middle, between the Crescent moon and Venus. That constellation at that time of day & year starts lower left, travels up to the right, then curls downward. Similar to the curl and twist as the painted "Swirl" in the middle of Van Gough's painting. I got a feeling this isn't a coincidence. . .
I just checked that with KStars and a moon-phase calculation script. Venus was close to the horizon at ENE, with Aries above it, but the Moon is way off to the side (the constellation between them being Pegasus), more to the south. Also its phase is slightly more than half, and waning, not a crescent, and Wikipedia confirms this with its image of the night sky at that place and time.
That was a fantastic gift from Chuck! Now Neil can have both the emotional reality and the physical reality side-by-side!
My favorite astrophysicist and my favorite painting. MIND BLOWN
Er, until you realise this video was just an excuse to plug a new sponsor!
As an artist, a painting is designed or meant to draw ones eyes to what is most important or central to the subject of the painting, thus "starry nights".
My favorite painting.
I discovered this show last month, best youtube discovery since.
@m4r_art - You will have many hours of joy catching up!
I like the theory that Van Gogh was inspired by Hokusai's "Great Wave Off Kanagawa" block print.
Actually, Van Gogh might have seen the sky that way, since it was the practice of artists to wet their brushes on their lips/tongues to mix paints high in lead at the time. This could account for the tracery and fuzziness to him of stars, since the lights would seem to vibrate and flow..
It is my most favorite of his work.
That was really good
It has been suggested that there might be another explanation for the swirls around the stars in Starry Night. In Van Gogh's time they couldn't go to the local art store and buy their paint. So...they made their own. White paint back then used lead instead of titanium dioxide as the pigment. It, of course, is highly toxic and in his time they had no real knowledge or understanding of these things. One of the symptoms of lead poisoning is that it can give victims halo vision and even mental disorders. Not saying that was the case. Just kinda makes you think. Breathing the lead oxide dust over years of making your paint could have had a long term effect. We know about lead paint chips and kids. It tastes sweet. Romans used it to sweeten their wine. Van Gogh may have licked his fingers while grinding the pigment to make his paint. Or just breathed the dust. But wouldn't that put an interesting twist on those crazy stars?
Plus, he practically painted night and day non stop, and was drinking way too much alcohol.
This makes sense. I have always suspected he might've been on some kind of natural hallucinogen or an unknown toxin that dilated his eyes and gave him blurry vision, halos around points of light, and hallucinated swirly patterns, and the painting was his capture of the experience. The fact that this was his actual view from the asylum and the positions of the Moon, stars, and Venus correspond to an actual day (possibly a specific weather event, according to some) pretty much tells me he didn't just plain make up the scene out of his imagination, it was based on his reality, even if exaggerated. A new study determined that the dynamics of his air fluid turbulence is actually mathematically accurate. He also may have been influenced by an astronomy journal he had seen at the asylum with sketches of the Whirlpool Galaxy. Really it could be a culmination of any or all of these. At any rate, I've loved it since I was a little girl, it's always been my favorite classic painting. And as an adult I'm into sky watching and astronomy, and and I have an affinity for tie-dye, go figure, lol..... 🤔
I'm surprised he didn't have a Van Gogh ear muff.
Earmuff, singular
He does have a Van Gogh tie though.
we didn't get to see his tattoos
Or Van Gogh condoms
because Van Gogh ear muff only comes in singles.
3:34 "or he could have called it, I CANT SLEEP!!" 😂😂😂
I really like these shows. It's like sitting, for a moment, with a couple good friends. And chatting about some of the most interesting things.
New study finds Starry Night depicts real fluid dynamics.
Four years ago?? Im just now finding this. I really enjoyed this. I enjoy all of these episodes. But this was special with some insight into one of my favorite paintings. Thank you 💖
What a tragic figure Van Gogh was. Such a torturous entire life from very young childhood. And, to express so much through his art that it continues to be a subject of discussion to this day.
It's believed that he was manic-depressive, before such things could be diagnosed.
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' “. - Vincent
He could have called it, "I Can't Sleep."
The fact that Neil has a phone case really trips me up.
Josh B yeah I remember he went into a diatribe on why he didn’t have one on Rogan or something
@@JudgeDredd_ yeah remember that, too, he claimed he got used to handling the bare phone in his hand so that he wouldn't drop it
gornes it’s a skin tho, not a case.
Wow what a nice gift ❤
Man. Chuck nice is great for this format.
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars." -Vincent Van Gogh
I about had a heart attack when the intro music bust in over Neil's beautiful soothing Bob Rossy voice as I turned the volume up.
MY FAVORITE PAINTING.
Well done Neil.your expertise on the reality really shines
the only part i don't agree is "first painting ever that was named for what was drawn in the background" part. when i look to the painting i see the starry sky as the main thing in the painting, not as the background, but the village and other things seem dark and insignificant.
U forgot to mention “this video is sponsored by under Lucky star”
Neil did mention it at the very beginning, though phrased differently
Oh lol I always fast forward the beginning
gama munoz it’s in the description box as well
This video is sponsored by us 😁
Not just sponsored by it, it was a commercial for it lol
The sky look like that when I’m not wearing my glasses because my eyes are awful
Y
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Starry Night < I Can't Sleep
A study suggested that Van Gogh saw illustrations of whirlpool galaxies at an exhibition and put them all over the place.
Art always captures the reality of the situation 👌
I swear I thought Neil was gonna say, "When you squeeze the Moon, the pillow makes a fart noise." 💨😆
The Dr Who Van Gogh episode is my favourite Dr Who episode
That’s gotta be the best pillow I have ever seen
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in van Gogh's Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to hidden turbulence in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes. The study was published September 17, 2024, in the journal "Physics of Fluids." Perhaps in some subconscious level Neil perceived the patterns as something more than just an artistic interpretation of reality.
They're getting really good at these commercials.
Everything takes practice.
Love to see an episode with you and Michio Kaku.
check the episode with hawking, michio is there.
Don McLean explains it all in vincent starry starry night
Nice to see you again Neil
I thought maybe a video would start after the 6 minute ad
Wow that was a really really long ad
Enjoyed it, thank you.
Neil... literally 80% of the painting is of the sky...and Chuck acting like he hasn’t heard Neil explain this a hundred times already... I need a new full length cosmic queries !!
exactly what I thought.. when you look at the painting, it has eye catchy colours i.e. yellow in the sky that is supposed to grab your attention and everything else become the background so to speak.
Love these
I love that painting!
Oh, I get it now! The painting has stars in it, and de Grasses Tyson is an astrophysicist! So he's an art expert!
Looks Awesome!!
I hope you've been to the immersion experiamce iv been twice now Liverpool and todya in Birmingham it's always an amazing experiance I love vamgigh and and especially the starry night painting and the spsiiraul side I never realised until I went to the immersion experiance but if u have please go!!!!!!
I remember hearing in one of my pharmacology classes that the thought was Van Gogh used to snack on purple foxglove flowers and was actually in digitalis toxicity she he painted this 🤷🏻♂️
2:44 And for the rest of the video, Chuck thinks to himself: “Damn, this chair is uncomfortable!” 😂
I wanna be just like Neil when I grow up
When Chuck was talking about what he got for Neil I somehow saw him as a child and a man. That's not an insult, I mean I could... feel his timeline? I could recognize him as an aging human rather than a static adult.
😊 from what I understand he painted starry night from a dream that's why it looks the way it does.
Is there a star app u reccomend for looking at the night sky ?
I put glow in the dark stars on my ceiling in my bedroom... The constilations were all of my own invention, like Ka, the constrictor... Rocky the flying squirel... All my favourites from teen years. 😁. 💋💖💋💖😆😆🌵👵🐺🖖
Hey Neil! I have seen you with a miniature sized painting of Starry Night. I'd like to know where you got it! I would love to get myself one! :)
Where can we make questions/proposals for a new video?
Man Chuck Nice is so nice!!
I don't agree the picture is named for the background. The name is "Starry night", not "Starry sky". The night (and day too) exits on Earth and other planets and moons, not in Space. If you were in a spaceship on its way to Mars, could you say it's day or night outside?
Very good insights neal...ever consifer painting?
I definitely Can’t sleep when I see this painting 🖼, hahaha
It’s my favorite also and I too hav it on everything.
Oh come on Neil!!..
At Least Hug the man! Its a great gift 😊
Where can I get the same frame in India ? Can anyone help!?
Why don't you ask at framing shops in India?
Life just keeps getting better
You're lucky in that the real Starry Night is close to you at the Museum of Modern Art. I'm a Van Gogh specialist in Toronto. Oh, and I have that exact same pillow, by the way.
Well, that's the most beautiful advertisement I've ever seen.
4:48 🌌
I have some of those credit card covers that each have a van Gogh painting on them.
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From seeing his paintings, especially "Starry Night", I have often wondered if he had synesthesia.
The stars are not the background of the painting. They're the focus. The city is actually the background / area of non-focus.
AND a world class art thief? Stealing hearts.
Dear mr deGrasse Tyson. You unfortunately as many Americans pronounce van Gogh wrong. It is with a hard G in front and at the end. But I loved your video. We Dutch are very proud of Vincent. As are the French, where he lived the second part of his life.
Doing a jigsaw puzzle of this painting. ❤
A true Renaissance Man Neil! Mickael Casol from Montreal!
Best commercial ever 🤩
i loved watching the Hubble pictures being colored by the scientists.
6m 26s of a very elaborate ad.
Hello! The starry night is going out on June 1st by lego! Take a look! Are you going to buy it?
I feel I was just ambushed by an advert.. 😂
Neils painted copy is cropped or the frame is too small . The stars are not cut in half as his is.
"before dawn's light" would have been a good title but "stary night" is better.
Vincent was so poor that he painted over paintings because he couldn't afford canvases. Not only is it likely that he couldn't afford glasses but also it is quite possible that he had astigmatism and could also have been near sighted. If so, the heavens might have looked more like that to him that they look to those with 20/20 (corrected, or not). All I have to do is take off my glasses and I have twice or three times as many stars as when I'm wearing my glasses.
If you were traveling in space instead of standing on Earth, you wouldn’t be looking at the “sky,” because “sky” by definition is what we frame as that which we see when looking “up” from the “ground.” It is a concept we agree upon when looking at the rest of the universe from Earth, but it is really just “everything that is not Earth.”
Wasn't it Jack Horkeimer who use to say Keep Looking up?