185. Vincent – Notte Stellata

                                                     And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
                                                     You shout and no one seems to hear
                                                     And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
                                                     I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

                                                   Roger Waters - Brain Damage

Starry, starry nights
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how,
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how,
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, the bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now, I think I know

What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.
                                                  Don McLean - Vincent

Vincent van Gogh realizzò più di 900 dipinti e 1100 disegni, nonostante il fatto che visse solo 37 anni. Soffriva di una forma di epilessia e di una tendenza maniacale a scrivere e a dipingere. Nel mese di gennaio 1889 fu dimesso dall'ospedale di Arles, nel quale era stato ricoverato dopo l'incidente dell'orecchio.

Ma l'artista sentiva di non essersi ripreso del tutto: la sua salute mentale non era ancora integra. Così, a maggio, chiese asilo all'ospedale psichiatrico nei pressi di Saint Rémy in Francia. Fu qui che dipinse alcune delle sue opere più celebri, come "Notte stellata".

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notte_stellata

“Notte stellata” è un dipinto a olio su tela (92x73 cm), realizzato nel 1889 e conservato nel Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) di New York.

Le immagini mostrate sotto, indicano quali costellazioni sono presumibilmente raffigurate nei dipinti e sono state prese dalla rivista online Elapsus:

http://www.elapsus.it/home1/index.php/scienza/astronomia/63-tra-arte-e-astronomia-le-stelle-di-van-gogh

 

Le stelle di Van Gogh

 

Notte stellata sul Rodano  -  1888

  

Vincent, il brano musicale di Don McLean riportato sopra, è tratto dall'album American Pie del 1971. E’ anche noto come Starry Starry Night.

Le parole della prima strofa sono un chiaro riferimento al dipinto Notte stellata.

E’ possibile ascoltarlo al seguente link di YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk


http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay