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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:52:00 EST
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- From: Penny Ward <UNCPEW@UNC.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Dominic's Top 5
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- > ...You can remake things as much as you want,but th at
- > does'nt mean its better. How many times did Van Gogh (sp?) paint Stary
- > Stary Night?
-
- Actually, a little-known fact is that Van Gogh painted Stary Stary
- Night several times. His first attempt was a nighttime scene with
- a Halloween motif, titled Scary Scary Night. He was dissatisfied
- and decided to revise it. His next draft, painted shortly after he
- had cut off his ear, was called Scarry Scarry Night. That still
- didn't cut it (pardon the expression), so he painted a third
- version, heavy on the celestial phenomena, and called it the
- Starry Night. But something about that version didn't satisfy
- him, either. Finally, he shut himself in his studio and sat
- in front of the canvas, staring at it for hours at a time. After
- about a week of this, he decided, "Since I've been staring at this
- so long, I'll call it 'Stary Stary Night,' and to hell with it!"
-
- Disclaimer: I dozed through much of Art Appreciation 101, so some
- of these facts may not be entirely accurate.
-
- p.w.
-