The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
1889
Post-Impressionism

A peaceful town asleep while while the sky is putting up a beautiful light show for Van Gogh. It's almost morning, there is a Venus by the moon. How romantic? If the painting is inverted, the sky is like waves carrying stars in them.
Van Gogh was facing depression and he couldn't sleep; Maybe not too bad, his asylum room had a view. But did it? How much of this beauty is what he wished for himself? The time before sunrise, the affirmation that sun will show up. He was depressed about his style being not recognised, he was financially unstable, and many more. But he was looking out for light for as long as he had the will in him to do so. But he did lose it.
Although he did, he didn't stop fighting time, and universe. He kept seeing hope, and beauty everywhere, in himself. That is why he had faith in his style and colour, and not fit the format. Recognition eluded him in life, but his blind faith in his vision eventually conquered the world. The town that is quietly sleeping, the mountains that almost touched the moon without even having to yearn like Van Gogh, the asylum are all referred after Van Gogh's name now and forever. He was building for himself. Validation did matter to him. But not getting the validation does not let him give up his vision. The Starry Night, a mid-June night, waking into a beautiful dawn, for sure.