My favorite piece of art

"La tristesse durera toujours"

In my opinion, the most beautiful and perfect piece of art that exist in the world! It’s Vincent Van Gogh’s The starry night. This piece of art in specific has a movement and an intensity that I love, because you can feel the sky moving and you can see the stars shining; this painting has a life on it’s own. 

Vincent Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter, who fought his way through recognition and fame during his life, and finally having the respect and influence in modern art after his death in 1890. 

Van Gogh painted over two thousands paintings in his career and specialized in watercolor to paint all kinds of styles, like self-portraits, portraits, cypresses, flowering Orchards, flowers and wheat fields. We can watch his art at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 

In his last year of life he "had fits of despair and hallucination during which he could not work, and in between them, long clear months in which he could and did, punctuated by extreme visionary ecstasy” .

Even with all his sadness and mental problems, Van Gogh gave us extraordinary paintings that transmit us his perspective of the world, a world that, through his eyes, it’s complex but at the same time, worth of looking at and keep discovering. The starry night it’s the clear example of that.