The painting and sculpture section displayed numerous painting with great history attached to them but one of the painting that caught my attention was The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.  van Gogh was a post-impressionism painter in the French art movement that was developed between 1886 and 1905. The Starry Night which is oil on canvas was painted in 1889 during the post-impressionism period.  The painting above emphasized on the nightly imagination of Vincent van Gogh. This imaginative painting focus our attention on brushstroke painting of a blue sky fill with illuminating stars and moon that shows almost everything in the painting is in circle. The composition and linear perspective allow us to pay close attention to the center of the sky and the center of the town. This period was a period of religion, as a result, in the middle of the town stood a church to show stability within the town. In the foreground, we see a green-thick smoke like tree rising to the blue sky to show the perseverance of religion in the Town. On the other hand, the rolling hills with the town beneath it matches the color of the sky to signify purity.

This painting reminds me of a poem that we read in class called  Discourse on the Logic of Language by M.N. Philip. The author of the poem was using her imaginative style of language to understand why slaves were not allow to speak their mother tongue. Likewise, van Gogh a painter in the post-impressionism period used painting to expressed his imagination of purity and the heaven.

In addition, the great work of Vincent van Gogh is a priceless gift to those who want to understand imaginative painting during the post-impressionism period.