Name: Robert Laging

“Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh”

Van Gog’s painting can be interpreted in three criticism, Psychoanalytic
criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to
interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret
unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a
manifestation of the author's own neuroses. Formalist Criticism: This approach
regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be
examined on its own terms.” All the elements necessary for understanding the
work are contained within the work itself. Deconstructive criticism follows the
belief that objects have meaning because that it was it has been defined as through
language.
Van Gog’s painting shows the great emotional intercity. The cypress is
probably a representation of inner anguish of him. The turmoil of the stars reflects
the torment he was going through. The sleepy village represent the rest of the
world, unaware, towards him.
"Van Gogh's painting is the most wonderful interpretation of human sufferings"
We all are 'color blind" in a way or another, we all see the world in a subjective
point of view. Artists are the only ones fighting to keep they unique views, instead
of ordinary man than lost is uniqueness as a child and became social addicted,
social acceptance, money making machine, rejecting suffering associated with
uniqueness and embraces pain free ordinary acceptance. Vincent was not color
blind. His works was about his emotions and he used more color than other artists
at that to express them. I you know the symptoms of depression.
The swirls are done by him to show the flow of everything, the forces of nature at
work. He may have been a man with many internal agonies, but his moments of
creation and observations are probably what gave him some peace of mind,
meaning and a sense of purpose. Which manifests itself in an almost meditative
manner.