《罗纳河上的星夜》是荷兰后印象派画家文森特·梵高于1888年创作的著名油画，显示了法国南部城市阿尔勒的罗纳河上的夜景。
短促的堆积用笔，非写实的画面典型的印象派，唯美的构图是画家结合现实的小镇，加入自己的理想主义创作的，寥寥几笔勾勒出河岸线，着重点是天空和河面，右下角的点睛之笔动态的河面拍打停泊的小舟，一对夫妇的散步把画面直接衍生到弧形的河岸。
运用冷色迷人的深蓝短线铺满整个夜空，强而有力的笔触表达出夜的深沉神秘与无法预测，而点缀其上的微明星子，与倒映在河面上的瓦斯灯灯影相互辉映，深蓝与亮黄的强烈对比让作品表达出画家内心澎湃的感动，略带稚拙地描绘平静河面上的灯影，是梵高内心急欲分享与寂寞的率直表现。
蓝色主调抹上黄调的星光河沿岸灯火，一对男女在河畔牵手夜行，那是罗纳河最典型的浪漫之夜。
From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of "night effects". In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: "I need a starry night
with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat." In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: "But when shall I ever paint the
Starry Sky, this painting that keeps haunting me" and, in
September, in a letter to his sister, he evoked the same subject: "Often it seems to me night is even more richly coloured than day". During the same month of September, he finally realised his obsessive project.
He first painted a corner of nocturnal sky in
Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles (Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Muller). Next came this view of the Rhône in which he marvellously transcribed the colours
he perceived in the dark. Blues prevail: Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt. The city gas lights glimmer an intense orange and are reflected in the water. The stars sparkle like gemstones.
A few months later,
just after being confined to a mental institution, Van Gogh painted another version of the same subject:
Starry Night (New York, MoMA), in which the violence of his troubled psyche is fully expressed. Trees are
shaped like flames while the sky and stars whirl in a cosmic vision. The Musée d'Orsay’s
Starry Night is more serene, an atmosphere reinforced by the presence of a couple of lovers at the bottom of the canvas.
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