Who Is The Artist Of Starry Night He painted the starry night in 1889 inspired by the view outside of his asylum in southern france where he the whirlpool galaxy can clearly be seen at the centre of van gogh s starry night which seems to have been inspired by the artist s knowledge of camille flammarion a french writer who

With starry night vincent van gogh moves away from the traditional impressionist connection with nature and instead adopts a feeling of agitation