文森·梵谷 (Vincent van Gogh) 的《罗纳河上的星夜》(Nuit étoilée)

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《Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône》1888年, 显示了法国南部城市阿尔勒的罗纳河上的夜景。该画现藏于法国巴黎的奥塞美术馆。在2009年奥赛博物馆允许摄影。在2012年奥赛博物馆不允许摄影。今年法国邮局发行12枚邮票 Avant et après L'Impressionnisme le thème de l'Eau 《印象派之前和之后:水的主题》。这张邮票是这12枚邮票之一。
From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of "night effects". In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: "I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat." In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: "But when shall I ever paint the Starry Sky, this painting that keeps haunting me" and, in September, in a letter to his sister, he evoked the same subject: "Often it seems to me night is even more richly coloured than day". During the same month of September, he finally realised his obsessive project.
He first painted a corner of nocturnal sky in Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles (Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Muller). Next came this view of the Rhône in which he marvellously transcribed the colours he perceived in the dark. Blues prevail: Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt. The city gas lights glimmer an intense orange and are reflected in the water. The stars sparkle like gemstones.
A few months later, just after being confined to a mental institution, Van Gogh painted another version of the same subject: Starry Night (New York, MoMA), in which the violence of his troubled psyche is fully expressed. Trees are shaped like flames while the sky and stars whirl in a cosmic vision. The Musée d'Orsay’s Starry Night is more serene, an atmosphere reinforced by the presence of a couple of lovers at the bottom of the canvas. (http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/col ... rry-night-7190.html)

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荷兰个性化邮票上的 《罗纳河上的星夜》