Stars in My Eyes

The MoMA has so much art that has had a significant impact on the art world. However, while I was actually walking through the museum, all I could think about was Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night; what must be the best painting to ever grace this world. Clearly many others thought the same thing, since you could barely see it through all the phones and people posing next to it. Starry Night defines everything that anyone could ever want. We want to reach for the stars. We strive to know more about them. They are mysterious and beautiful and, as a New Yorker, basically invisible to me.

Van Gogh was not a successful artist in his time. He was poor and his art went unappreciated, because during his time the only art that was considered good art was realistic, which his was not. The painting shows a new perspective; that of a man who had nothing, but saw everything and though he was depressed and would take his own life later, he was able to put brush to canvas and show the world that  there was so much beauty in the universe and so much color, that one would only have to look to the skies to find it. God, I love Van Gogh.