{"id":2360,"date":"2012-10-05T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:54:13","slug":"starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Starry Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The famous Van Gogh painting Starry Night has received a very modern makeover<\/strong>
\nFrom the Herald Sun<\/a>
\nBy Erinna Giblin
\nOct 3, 2012<\/p>\n

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THE picture is iconic, inspiring artists, astronomers and lovers for generations. Now new tribute has been paid to Vincent Van Gough’s “Starry Night”<\/p>\n

Astrophysics student Alex Parker’s work involves a lot of starry nights, focusing on the formation and evolution of planetary systems.<\/p>\n

So when cloudy weather stopped the PhD student from exploring space from his office at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he decided to get creative.<\/p>\n

He moulded some of the stunning images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope into an homage to Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s famous 1889 painting, ‘Starry night’, using photo-mosaic software.<\/p>\n

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Alex Parker, a PHD astronomy student took Van Gogh’s 1889 painting, and built it back up from arguably humanity’s other most famous space portraits – those taken by the Hubble telescope over the last 20 years. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n

While the original artwork is set outside the painter’s asylum room window, where he was staying after a mental breakdown the year before at Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence, in France, Parker’s version is a lighter take on the awe-inspiring night sky.<\/p>\n

Parker explained to Michele Banks at thefinchandpea.com<\/a> :\u201cThe idea came up around the time of Hubble\u2019s 22nd birthday, when I thought it would be neat to assemble a collage of a bunch of Hubble images from over its history.”<\/p>\n

[Alternate to the original can be found HERE<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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