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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Van Gogh's Starry Knight

Vincent Van Gogh's later paintings from his peak periods of mental illness have brush strokes that closely match the like fluid turbulence of real dust and gas in space. And they think that by accident or on purpose he really nailed the process of making paints on a canvas look like it's moving. He accidentally painted space like in the 1800s whoops painted space. It's like crazy weird genius stuff.

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