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NASA’s model of ocean currents looks like The Starry Night

NASA's model of ocean currents looks like The Starry Night

NASA’s model of ocean currents looks like The Starry Night

NASA’s model of ocean currents looks like The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s most famous work ‘The Starry Night’, reproduced in actual pictures by NASA. In particular, they show the stars as giant white swirls. However, whatever the post-impressionist painter can do, Mother Nature can do better. Indeed, when NASA made a visualization of ocean surface currents around the world the result was stunning. They looked remarkable like the 1889 work of the celebrated Van Gogh.

NASA produced the model simply as a ‘visceral’ experience

NASA produced the model simply as a ‘visceral’ experience

Van Gogh wanted to show the starry night, created by the power of imagination – more amazing than the one that can be observed in reality. In one letter he described the plot of the future picture – starry night with cypresses and perhaps over a field of ripe wheat. His purpose, he managed to carry out at Saint-Remy. Vincent wrote to his brother Theo: “I’m still looking for a religion. So I went home at night and began to paint the stars.”

“Starry Night” (De sterrennacht) – a picture of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889, with a view of the pre-dawn sky above the fictional town from the east window of the artist home in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Since 1941, it was kept at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is considered one of the best works of Van Gogh and one of the most significant works of Western painting.

NASA’s model of ocean currents looks like The Starry Night

The ‘Perpetual Ocean’ model represents the currents that existed between 2006 and 2007

The ‘Perpetual Ocean’ model represents the currents that existed between 2006 and 2007

When NASA made a visualization of ocean surface currents around the world the result looked remarkable like the 1889 work of the celebrated Van Gogh

When NASA made a visualization of ocean surface currents around the world the result looked remarkable like the 1889 work of the celebrated Van Gogh

Animated starry night

Animated starry night

Animated portraits of Van Gogh

Animated portraits of Van Gogh

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