Van Gogh's brushstrokes create an illusion of sky movement so convincing it led atmospheric scientists to wonder how closely it aligns with the physics of real skies. While the atmospheric motion ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

He recently replaced the sky of Van Gogh’s painting with a simulation of supersonic turbulence. Yet the question of whether Van Gogh precisely depicts turbulence at a mathematical level was not ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night ... The atmospheric motion of the painted sky cannot be directly measured, so Huang and his colleagues ...

New research suggests there is more to Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night than meets the eye. Its turbulent, swirling sky shares many characteristics with invisible fluid dynamics ...

Scientists measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along ... to see just how accurate those famous swirls in its night sky are. “With a ...

In September, Van Gogh created Starry Night Over the Rhône, depicting a star-spangled night sky reflected in a beautifully textured body of water. “On the aquamarine field of the sky the Great ...