고호의 유명한 The Starry Night (Starry, Starry Night) 별이 빛나는 밤

빈센트 반 고호의 The Starry Night.
뉴욕의 Musium of Modern Art에 소장되어있죠.

1889 년 5월 아를을 떠나 스스로 정신병원에 들어간 고호. 어느 정도 회복된 후 원장의 배려로 그림을 그릴 수 있게 되어 1년 동안 150여점을 그렸는데 그 중의 한 작품이 별이 빛나는 밤 입니다.

모마 뮤지엄에서 사람들이 젤 많이 모여 있었어요. 그래서 정면 사진을 못 찍었네요.
정면 사진은 인터넷에서 찾아서 올렸어요.

노래 땜에 더 유명해진거 같은데 맥린의 노래 가사를 음미하며 그림 감상해보시길....

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...