![]() On June 19, he expressed his hesitation to Émile Bernard: “ But when will I do the starry sky, then, that painting that’s always on my mind? Alas, alas, the most beautiful paintings are those one dreams of while smoking a pipe in one’s bed, but which one doesn’t make. He hesitates however and procrastinates, intimidated by the subject. On April 12, he wrote to his friend the painter Émile Bernard: “ A starry sky, for example, well - it’s a thing that I’d like to try to do, just as in the daytime I’ll try to paint a green meadow studded with dandelions“. Van_Gogh : Self portrait as an artist, Arles1888 ” From then sprout in him the crazy project of painting the sky. In the background, the stars sparkled, clear, green, yellow, white, lighter pink, diamond-like diamonds. Stunned by the transparency of the firmament, he writes to his brother Theo: “ The deep blue sky was spotted with clouds deeper blue than the fundamental blue of an intense cobalt, and others of a blue clearer, like the blue whiteness of the milky ways. Although he arrived in the city by a snowy day, he discovered the Provençal light, brighting day and night. On February 20, 1888, aged 35, Vincent, the man from dark-heavened Northern Europe, moved to the old city of Arles, in the South of France. In the series of notes that I begin here, I will analyze in detail the extraordinary reports that Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1889) maintained with the vision of the Provençal sky. “ Coucher de soleil sur champ de blé près d’Arles (Sunset on wheatfield near Arles), 1888 It no longer belongs to the world, but it is the good of a man, the heart of a man, the elementary truth found in the contemplation of a lifetime. It is never simply the gold of the wheat, the flame, or the straw chair it is a gold forever individualized by the endless dreams of genius. “ A Van Gogh’s yellow is like an alchemical gold, a gold butine like a solar honey. In these texts written from 1942 to 1962 (gathered in Le Droit de rêver, PUF, collection “Quadrige”, 2010), Gaston Bachelard celebrates the difficult synthesis of imagination and reflection that seems to him to guarantee, for writers as for artists such as Baudelaire and Van Gogh’s, fidelity to dreamlike values. I'm weary of waiting for action.“In which space do our dreams live? What is the dynamism of our nightlife? Is the space of our sleep really a rest area? Is it not rather an incessant and confused movement? On all these problems we have little light because we do not find, when the day comes, only fragments of night life. SNP was a great and innovative software application in its time. ![]() But some have said that for every person who voices an opinion like this, there are one thousand others who feel the same, but just haven't spoken up. I've worked so hard to help others see all the good in Starry Night Pro. But at least it doesn't seem to be languishing from lack of love. In fact, it's the most expensive planetarium software on the market - and maybe the most expensive astronomy software I own. I also know that this is not a free program. Amazed at the apparent lack of care for customers. I've "bumped" the question several times. My request at was posted nine months ago and STILL it appears no one has answered from Sim Curr. It has truly become a community support forum.
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