Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh: Ultra-Soft Premium Cotton T-Shirt
This design was created based on Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 painting "Starry Night". The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
Vincent van Gogh painted this famous landscape in June 1889 while looking out his room’s window at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in the south of France.
The original painting depicts swirling movements in the dark night sky and the quiet town below. While the original artwork features thick layers of paint and vigorous brushstrokes, the design composition on the white cotton t-shirt we've created takes a much simpler line-art form.
Van Gogh didn't create this landscape by looking directly outside, but through a blend of his memory and imagination. From the room's east-facing, iron-barred window, he couldn't actually see the small town below or the tall, pointed church spire. He later added these architectural details to the composition, drawing inspiration from the villages in the Netherlands where he was born and raised.
He also intentionally painted the cypress tree in the foreground in massive proportions, creating a vertical axis that bridges earth and sky. When we look at the sky, just to the right of the cypress tree, we see a circular object painted significantly larger and brighter than the rest. In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh describes looking out his window long before sunrise and noting how enormous the morning star appeared in the sky. Detailed astronomical studies have proven that the large, brilliant object the artist saw from that window and captured on canvas in June 1889 wasn't actually a star, but the planet Venus.
