Starry Night (Munch) Explained

Starry Night
Other Language 1:Norwegian
Other Title 1:Stjernenatt
Artist:Edvard Munch
Year:1893
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:135.6
Width Metric:140.0
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
City:Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum:The J. Paul Getty Museum

Starry Night (Norwegian: '''Stjernenatt''') is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1893. This night landscape represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo in Norway, where Edvard Munch had spent his summers since the late 1880s. In this painting Munch shows the view from the hotel window where he fell in love for the first time.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Starry Night info at J.Paul Getty Museum