A Starry Night
The most likely purpose of this passage is
A.
to persuade
B.
to compare
C.
to entertain.
D.
to inform
Vincent Van Gogh's A Starry Night is the most popular
painting in the world. Van Gogh used oil paints over canvas
to create this landscape painting in 1889. Van Gogh
produced over 2,000 paintings, drawings, and sketches
during his lifetime. Van Gogh's works are great, but this
painting is his best
As the title suggests, it is a landscape of the night sky with
a yellow moon and circular-shaped stars over a small village.
Van Gogh used a combination of bright colors to recreate the
scene of a night sky. It is said that Van Gogh used both
imagination and memory to create this scene. It is obvious
that Van Gogh felt very peaceful while he painted this piece
of art. When people look at the painting, they feel as if they
are standing under a starlit sky, enjoying the view
The surface of the painting is not smooth as with most
paintings or photographs Van Gogh used a series of brush
strokes to achieve this texture. This texture adds more value
and beauty to the painting. The painting became more
popular in 1941, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York
bought it from a painting collector
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