Internship doctors did not allow him to paint from his room, so the work was shed from abroad and painted from the author's memories.
Aesthetics
He Artistic style is the characteristic of Van Gogh; It is an oil paint with short and striped brushstrokes, an artificial color palette, undulating lines and detailed attention of the luminescence.
The sky is a combination of blue and golden tones that are applied with thick brushry, the clouds are a kind of swirl, the stars are bright and a large moon dominates the scene. To the left of the work is a large figure, compared to the scale of the rest of the scene, it is a large dark and isolated cypress.
Finally, in the lower part of the painting is the town of Saint-Rémywhich is not enough to see from the sanitarium, but that the author decided to include in his vision.
Symbolisms
There are many theories of historians who have dedicated themselves to studying the work of the creative genius, one of the most recurring is ** The relationship with death due to the cipreses **, which are distinctive of the cemeteries and confirms it in one of their letters “Looking at the stars always puts me to dream. Why, I ask myself, should not the bright points of the sky be as accessible as the black points of the Map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. ”
Other experts say that it is a surreal symbolismwhich speaks of a dark night that actually shines, as a sign of a deep desire to escape. According to and historian Sven Loevgren, it is an escape from the author's soul, an apocalyptic vision in which it leaves the body and integrates with the cosmos, a desperate cry in search of hope and that suggests suicide.