Time.news – The Eiffel Tower may have inspired Van Gogh’s famous painting, “Starry Night”. The British newspaper The Guardian writes it, citing a new theory elaborated by the expert and former art critic of the newspaper, James Hall.
The Dutch master created the masterpiece in 1889, during his one-year stay in the psychiatric clinic of Saint Remy in Provence, but he would have been profoundly influenced by the news and images relating to the construction of the grandiose iron monumentstarted in 1886 when he had just arrived in Paris.
Newspapers and magazines, including ‘Le Monde Illustre’, which Van Gogh read in Saint-Remy, they reported “wondering” illustrated accounts of the unveiling of the Eiffel Towerwhich was accompanied by a nightly display of fireworks, electric light and explosions which, according to the art expert, were repeated in the “pyrotechnic music of the stars, sky and clouds” of Van Gogh’s painting.