Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers found ...

The whirling shapes in the painting, which was created in 1889, follow a ‘distinct pattern of structures’ seen in the natural environment, according to the study The whirling shapes in Vincent van ...

(CNN) — The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

Scientists measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that apply in the ...

When Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced "The Starry Night" in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind. Yet according to a new ...

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

Turkish artist Garip Ay transforms water into Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece. — -- Oil and water may not mix, but they do make for great art in the right hands. Get ready to be mesmerized by the ...

It’s not hard to see why. The Post-Impressionist masterpiece hums with a swirling internal energy all its own. In the foreground of the painting, a cypress tree flares up against a night sky that ...

Visitors gather around Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1889) at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) On a busy Thursday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Modern ...