Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical fluctuations found in a different flavor of turbulence that gives birth to the real starry night: supersonic turbulence.

Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885 ...

More information: James J. Riley et al, Is there hidden turbulence in Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night ?, Journal of Turbulence (2025). DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2025.2477244 Provided by Virginia ...

Admirers of Van Gogh's art can now buy the Lego adaptation of his famous Sunflowers painting at major retailers to display ...

Van Gogh creates his own highly personal image of space in the form of Starry Night. Both are constructions, both are subjective.” ...