

Green being what you get when you mix yellow and blue together. He used a light green almost as an interim color to transition from the bright yellows and oranges to the deep blues. If you look closely, you will see that in most cases he used a saturated yellow or orange in the centre, then used lighter but less saturated colors around the outside. He painted the light of the stars, moon and houses by contrasting vivid yellows and oranges against the blues and greens in the rest of the painting. The colors appear to vibrate as your eyes bounce between all the distinct colors. His lack of blending creates a broken color effect, which seems to reiterate the sense of movement and turbulence in the painting. Van Gogh used rich blues and yellows to paint the night sky, with light greens scattered throughout. This may explain his exaggerated use of of color.


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