Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night

What colors did Vincent van Gogh use in his painting The Potato Eater?

earth tones

Vincent van Gogh associated both the stars that fill the sky and the cypress trees in The Starry Night with:

eternity

In The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh covered the entire canvas with oil paint and left no area untouched.

False

The painted landscape in The Starry Night is exactly the scene that Van Gogh saw out of his window in the asylum.

False

Which Japanese woodblock print gave Van Gogh the idea for the sky in Starry Night?

Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa"

The bright and vibrant colors of the Impressionist artists were introduced to Van Gogh while he was living with his brother Theo in which city?

Paris

In which art movement do we categorize the works of Vincent van Gogh?

Post-Impressionist

The Starry Night is a scene from which place in France, where Vincent van Gogh was for a time resident in an asylum?

Saint-Rémy

Vincent van Gogh combined the landscape of Saint-Rémy and his knowledge of art history in his painting The Starry Night.

True

Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night was most likely an early morning sky and not a night sky, because:

he was an insomniac

The Starry Night shows Vincent van Gogh's use of a type of thickly encrusted paint application, known as:

impasto? parallel brushwork?

The fact that the cypress tree is taller and more dynamic than the steeple in The Starry Night suggests that faith and religion can be found in:

nature

What aspect of Georges Seurat's painting did Vincent van Gogh emulate (though he found it to be too restrictive)?

pointillist dots

Which parts of the composition of The Starry Night did Vincent van Gogh paint from his imagination or memory?

steeple

What is the most energized aspect of the composition of The Starry Night?

the sky

Van Gogh's composition for The Starry Night is similar to some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the way that:

the sky dominates two-thirds of the canvas

Vincent van Gogh was influenced by these Japanese artworks:

woodblock prints