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''Starry Night'' () is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the
Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
artist
Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( ; ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work ''The Scream'' has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inher ...
in 1893. This night landscape represents the coastline at
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, a small beach resort south of
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in
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, where Edvard Munch had spent his summers since the late 1880s. In this painting Munch shows the view from the hotel window where he fell in love for the first time.
Starry Night info at J.Paul Getty Museum
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See also

* List of paintings by Edvard Munch * ''
The Starry Night ''The Starry Night'', often called simply ''Starry Night'', is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Sain ...
'', Vincent van Gogh painting


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{{Edvard Munch Paintings by Edvard Munch 1893 paintings Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum Water in art