1. Starry, starry night…

2. Who is the author of these paintings?

3. Vincent van Gogh
1853 – 1890
Netherlands

4. Vincent van Gogh son of a pastor two unsuitable and unhappy romances
worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher
colour was the main symbol of his expression
highly emotional and lacked self-confidence
studied art > determined to give happiness by creating beauty

5. Vincent van Gogh early Dutch period: somber-tone (dark)
discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints
met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin in Paris > lightened his very dark palette
painted in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists
difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health

6. Vincent and Gaugin Gauguin joined him but with a disastrous results.
Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles > Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off
Van Gogh then began to alternate between madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.

7. Vincent’s last years
in May of 1890, he seemed much better and was released
Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all."
Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line: his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.

8. What’s in a song?
Expressing Van Gogh's inspiration for the painting.
However, one line says : "Look out on a summer's day." which is a false statement as Van Gogh was in an asylum at Saint-Remy, and was not able to paint picture from an actual view point, it is strictly from his mind.
Song:
Starry, starry night. 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.

9. These are references to other
Van Gogh paintings.
· Flaming Flowers: The Sunflower Series
· Swirling Clouds: Starry Night
· Field of Amber Grain: Wheat Field with Crows
· Weathered Faces: The Potato Eaters
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 field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath
the artist's loving hand.

10. Even though he loved painting,
his paintings could never love him back.
Van Gogh attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest, which ultimately led to his death two days later.
For they could not love you, But still your love was true. And when no hope was left in sight 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.

11. Van Gogh's artistic legacy is contained within his paintings, drawings and writings.
They are everlasting and will never "forget" the style that created them.
The paintings are Van Gogh's eyes
that watch the world.
Starry, starry night. Portraits hung in empty halls, Frameless head on nameless walls, With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met, The ragged men in the ragged clothes, The silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

12. Conclusion:
Van Gogh's
eternal struggle with
insanity.
Now I think I know
what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free. They would not listen,
they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

13. Trivia... His epilepsy was partly caused by licking his brushes clean.
He painted mostly with oil paints, so when he licked the brushes he got a lot of chemicals in his body. 
He also went insane from the high winds and hot sun of Arles, France.
Van Gogh was also addicted to alcohol.