This famous painting has a hidden meaning no one ever understood until now

Vincent van Gogh painted his famous Starry Night a year before his  death, in June 1889. Not only is it one of the artist’s greatest works,  but it also is one of the most important works of art in the history  of Western painting.

In 2004, observations using Hubble Space Telescope revealed swirling  clouds of dust and gas surrounding a distant star. And as astronomers  claim, these Galaxy images look uncannily like Vincent van Gogh’s Starry  Night. 

The scientists began to study how the artist’s works connects to the  actual discovery and found out that there is a distinct pattern  of turbulent fluid structures in many of Van Gogh’s paintings. 

As it turns out, while the famous Dutch painter was in an asylum  in France, he captured one of the most complex and elusive concepts  in science — turbulence. 

More than a hundred years ago in a period of intense suffering, Van  Gogh was somehow able to perceive and depict one of the most difficult  phenomenon nature has ever produced and unite the greatest mysteries  of movement and light in his mind.

This discovery encouraged scientists to check the works of other  Impressionists to learn whether they could depict turbulence in the same  way. But the study showed that their paintings are not as accurate  in terms of mathematics, as compared to Van Gogh’s masterpieces. Not  even The Scream by Edvard Munch could never match up to Starry Night. 

So, in the darkest times of his life, Van Gogh managed  to capture one of the most complex and intricate concepts in physics and  mathematics. 

 

Look at this video to learn more about turbulence and Van Gogh’s paintings: 

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