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Article: Van Gogh: the Starry Night.
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- Instructor (1990)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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TWO WORLDS
The natural world--the sky, the tree, and the mountains--seems bigger and more powerful than the human world in this painting. Have children list the natural and the man-made objects in the painting. Which take up most of the space? Which seem more important or powerful?
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HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL?
Van Gogh is known for the great emotion and drama of his paintings. Ask children how this painting makes them feel, and why.
THE MIND'S EYE
Van Gogh painted the village and sky the way he remembered it in his mind. Ask children how a work of art created from memory might be different than ...