Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
MEDIUM:
Cradled wood panel-assemblage: collage, watercolor palette pan, brush, wood oil sprayed wooded stars, acrylic painted canvas board.
ARTWORK:
20″ x 16″ x 1¾”
FRAME:
Satin Black Finished Wood
21″ x 17″ x 2½”
Note: Homage to Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) painting Starry Night, 1889.
The lullaby “Little Star” by Jane Taylor *1783-1824), Rhymes for the Nursery, 1806.
Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist artist who a year prior painting “The Starry Night” questioned if his imagination could paint a star-spangled sky. His painting is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Years ago when visiting MOMA I had the opportunity viewing the exhibited painting. My artwork titled: “A Starry Night” documents that experience.
DRAFT
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream…I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” 1. Vincent van Gogh
Artist Note: It is with humility and conviction the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) questioned if his imagination could paint a star-spangled sky. Who would question Vincent’s 1889 painting “The Starry Night” had not succeeded bringing the starry sky down to earth for everyone to dream about. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Artwork: Years ago I viewed the painting on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. My assemblage, “A Starry Night” documents that visit and serves as a homage to Vincent van Gogh’s painting,“The Starry Night.”
Footnotes: 1. www.Goggle.com/Brainy Qoutes. /www.Wikipedia: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”2014. Brown, Mark: How Hokusai’s Great Wave crashed into Van Gogh’s Starry Night, The Guardian, 2018. Refer: Clines, Francis, A Starry Night Crowded With Selfies, Editorial Notebook, The New York Times, September 24, 2017. Chang, Kenneth: Twinkle, Twinkle, Perhaps Times Three, The National, The New York Times, December 2, 2010.
Note: Eighty-three years ago Jane and Anne Taylor in 1806 published the English lullaby lyrics for Rhymes for the Nursery, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Scholars have inferred the spiraling sky in “The Starry Night” was influenced by Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760 – 1849) circa 1830-31 colored woodblock print “In the Hollow of the Wave off Kanagawa.”