Digital artist Petros Vrellis created an interactive version of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night. The brushstrokes movie and activate music. Vrellis tells more about the project at Creative Applications. Link -via The Daily What

See also: Starry Night is Everywhere!

What's so special about this print of Vincent van Gogh by artist Phil Hansen?

Just zoom in a bit ...

... a bit more and you'll start seeing some letters ...

... and finally, a story:

Phil asked his viewers about an experience that shocked them, and wrote over 1,000 of such stories with sharpie to create the image of Van Gogh.

The making of video clip is amazing:

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Previously on Neatorama: Artwork by Phil Hansen

That’s because she used spices and other ingredients for cooking to recreate the scenes, and the textures feel much more like the original paintings than most recreations i’ve seen. And when she’s done snapping pics of the scenes she’s created, she can cook up a tasty meal!

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Starry Night is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh that has proved to be an enduring iconic image. Painted in 1888, the scene shows a night sky filled with stars swirling over the French countryside, which includes a view of the village of Saint-Rémy. Since 1941, the painting has been at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But everyone wants their own copy, or some version of Starry Night. We’ve seen a lot of them.

Suzy Myers used quilled paper to recreate Starry Night. You can see the process and closeup views at her site.

Back in April, Mattel unveiled a set of “fine art Barbies.” The collection includes a Da Vinci Mona Lisa model, another honoring Gustav Klimt, and this Barbie honoring Vincent Van Gogh with a Starry Night dress. See them all at If It’s Hip, It’s Here.

Tabitha Ballard made an award-winning cake that reproduces the Van Gogh painting.

Flickr user and pastry chef Megpi made what she called an “Impressionist Cake” in 2008. Only the top layer uses the image of Starry Night, but it’s all impressive!

Andy Alcala reinterpreted a series of classic artworks as face paintings. In addition to Starry Night, he also used works by Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, Banksy, and more.

You’ll find quite a few Starry Night tattoos if you look for them. This full-arm tat goes all the way!

Did you ever have the burning need to make a Van Gogh masterpiece out of bacon? It’s been done, but you can make your own with step-by-step directions from Instructables.

Doyle Geddes, a teacher at Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah, led 150 students through the construction of the world’s largest recreation of Van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night. The finished product was 72 feet by 90 feet on the gym floor, and an inch deep in breakfast cereal! A Malt-O-Meal factory donated two tons of Tootie Fruities, Cocoa Dyno-Bites and Frosted Mini Spooners for the project. Watch them put it together in a time-lapse video.

Imagine a 1.5 Gigapixel image made of over 200,000 other images. This version of Starry Night is a photomosaic. At this link, you can zoom in over and over to see the other images that make up this image.

You can have your own Starry Night from the NeatoShop! Our Inflatable Van Gogh in a Can gives you a 19×15 version of the painting packed in a convenient can. Anytime you need some art, just pull it out and blow it up!

If something is nice, someone will eventually make a LEGO version of it. Ed Hall did it in 2001, with awesome results.

Ross Thomas and Elizabeth Farrell of the University of Virginia collected 8,000 bottle caps and used them to make a Starry Night mosaic. Their finished product is shown here, but it’s far from the only bottle cap mosaic of Starry Night. See the others at Oddity Central.

It’s not only artists that recreate the Van Gogh work. A photograph of a storm on Jupiter struck Ransom Riggs (and plenty of other people) as very reminiscent of Starry Night.

And then there are the mashups, in which an artist takes a pop culture icon and places it into Van Gogh’s world. James Hance thought Starry Night would be a great backdrop for The Dark Knight. He was right!

Hance’s mashup was later enshrined in a tattoo.

Someone did the same for The Lord of the Rings, putting the Eye of Sauron into the scene. Unfortunately, the artist’s name has been lost along the way.

The stars are replaced by spaceships and an ominous Death Star in this Star Wars/Starry Night mashup by Newbpainter.

DeviantART member Terry Lightfoot inserted a TARDIS from the Doctor Who series into Van Gogh’s masterpiece.

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And now for some music! Don McLean paid tribute to Van Gogh’s painting in the lyrics of his 1971 song “Vincent.” This video uses many of Van Gogh’s paintings to illustrate the song.

Van Gogh / Genius by Huy Lam

At a glance, the artwork of Toronto-based artist Huy Lam look like their original pictures and photos, but when you take a closer look, you'd be delighted to see that the details are made with text painstakingly colored and shaped into the images.

Here's what Lam said about his art:

... From afar you see a portrait of Nelson Mandela which looks like it could be a pencil or charcoal drawing. But as you come closer and closer, you realize its created from a different media. After farther inspection, parts of words start to emerge on top of layers of other fragmented words until you finally come across the completed words, 'my hero'. Nelson Mandela is my hero and I created a portrait of him with only words. A portrait of Che Guevara is created from the words 'bought a T-shirt' because I've also bought the iconic T-shirt when I was young and rebellious. [...]

All the images are created with 4 point type.

Inflatable Van Gogh

For those times when you feel the need for emergency art, there’s the Inflatable Van Gogh in a can, now available at the NeatoShop. It’s Van Gogh’s most famous work, Starry Night, that can be inflated to hanging size or stored in its full-color illustrated tin. Never be caught short on art again! Add some class to your condo or cubicle with this Inflatable Van Gogh painting! Each 19-1/4″ x 15-3/4″, vinyl masterpiece is a stunning example of high concept kitsch for the cultured cosmopolitan. Makes a great gift!

Check out other decorative items for your home at the NeatoShop!

Flavorwire has assembled a cool slideshow of people with artist-inspired tattoos, from the pop art of Andy Warhol to Banksy’s graffiti work. Other artists represented include Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. I think the colors in the Starry Night-inspired sleeve above are just gorgeous.

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Artist James Birkbeck likes to compare himself to Vincent van Gogh – he even looked like him, so he decided to put on a little make up and take a self-portrait as the renowned Dutch painter! Link

See also: Living Paintings by Alexa Meade

Popped Culture has a gallery of the neatest parodies of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night you’ll see today. My favorite is this one above, titled Gotham Starry Night by deviantART user 1funnyguy. Check out the entire gallery here: Link

From the NeatoShop: Disappearing Van Gogh’s Ear Mug | More "disappearing" mugs

“To the best of our knowledge it is the largest re-creation of a Van Gogh work of art in any medium,” he said. The re-creation – made with blue, purple, red, green, yellow and brown cereals – was displayed in a gym at Sky View.

As he looked at the completed project Saturday, Geddes said, “I think it’s better than we even expected or dreamed that it could be.” He thinks Van Gogh would be happy with the re-creation, too.

The work was displayed to the public for four hours on Saturday, then the cereal was collected and given to a farmer to feed his pigs. The Herald Journal details the process of making the recreation. Link to story. Link to time-lapse video.

(image credit: Alan Murray/Herald Journal)

Famous paintings are a huge part of history and culture.  Many of them are paintings of people without any identification.  Who was Picasso’s Weeping Woman?  Who was the man behind the apple in The Son of Man?  Find out.

American Gothic is a famous painting that was created in 1930. Wood entered the painting in in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning the bronze medal. Since it came out at the onset of the Great Depression, it was viewed by many as a symbol of the steadfast American spirit. Many saw it as a struggling farmer and his wife who refuse to give up. The woman is actually Wood’s sister. The man, his dentist.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by sish2000.

This clever "Disappearing Civil Liberties" mug features the complete text of the Bill of Rights that disappear (thanks to the Patriot Act) as you add hot beverage. From the Neatorama Shop: Link

More disappearing mugs:

Global Warming Mug	Disappearing Dino Mug	DisappEARing Van Gogh

Bailey concludes that this letter was written by [Van Gogh's brother] Theo from Paris in December 1888 and contained news of his engagement. This, he believes, tipped Vincent, who was already psychologically disturbed, into self-harm.  “Vincent was fearful that he might lose his brother’s emotional and financial support,”writes Bailey in the January edition of The Art Newspaper.

The postmark depicted on the letter corresponds to that which would have been used by Van Gogh’s brother, and the date would agree with the transmital of the engagement news.

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A few people were lucky enough to be pan pals of a sort with Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh often added sketches or paintings to his letters, to illustrate what he wrote about. BibliOdyssey has a collection of these letter sketches, along with the letters that accompanied them. Link

Gauguin, an excellent fencer, was planning to leave Van Gogh’s "Yellow House" in Arles, southwestern France, after an unhappy stay.

He had walked out of the house with his baggage and his trusty épée in hand, but was followed by the troubled Van Gogh, who had earlier thrown a glass at him.

As the pair approached a bordello, their row intensified, and Gauguin cut off Van Gogh’s left earlobe with his sword – either in anger or self-defence.

He then threw the weapon in the Rhône. Van Gogh delivered the ear to the prostitute and staggered home, where police discovered him the following day, the new account claims.

Gauguin had undoubtedly been staying with Van Gogh, but most experts think he had disappeared before the ear incident.

Although the historians provide no "smoking gun" to back up their claims, they argue theirs is the most logical interpretation, and explains why in his final recorded words to Gauguin, Van Gogh writes: "You are quiet, I will be, too".

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