This essay is about Starry Night by Edvard Munch. It is an in depth analysis of this painting. It discusses the style, lighting, mood, and texture. This painting is at the Getty Museum.

This abstract painting, Starry Night, by Edvard Munch represents a Norwegian landscape in which the style he paints it in expresses his feelings and we can see them through the use of various elements. The foreground which is defined by the rhythmic shoreline, includes a white fence set diagonally entrapping clumps of bushes and trees on which we can also see the shadow of two lovers embracing each other in the dark. The sky is …

…of these formal elements. The sadness of the color and the direction of the infinite ocean versus the direction the lovers are moving towards are all the main components in the sadness portrayed in this painting. Instead of continuing with the flow of the ocean the two lovers chose the path that will lead them to an end. The viewer chooses his path according to his feelings, "nature is merely the means of conveying them."