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Artist’s Painting Gets Mistaken For A Van Gogh, So She Creates Brilliant ‘Starry Night’ Series (Part II)
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One thing is certain, if your painting is confused with one by Vincent Van Gogh, you really have a talent. Do you still remember New-York based artist Aja Trier, who mashes up pop culture elements with Van Gogh's expressive style? Well, a year ago she proved to us that she is extremely talented, and now she is back!
Everything started when an educational blog mistakenly shared her painting of the Eiffel Tower and branded it as a painting by Van Gogh by mistake. It is worth mentioning that this painting of the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and the famous artist died in 1890. He spent the rest of his life in the south France, therefore, it's not quite possible that he even saw the famous tower.
After this happened, Trier decided to have some fun with this situation and created a whole series of Van Gogh-style paintings that show the things that the famous Dutch painter never got to see before his death. This is how the 'Van Gogh Never' series was born.
Scroll down the page and discover the iconic starry sky from a different perspective!
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Wonderful use of color. It looks like it's lit from within. I'm jealous (in a good way the way that encourages you not to quit).
Aww, love Lil Bub - I'd recognize that derp-tongue anywhere! She's captured Bub's permanent look of wonder.
Beautiful : the black cat sitting on pumpkins under the moonlight gives this one a Hallowe’en flavour.
This is so vivid, you can almost feel the wind through the trees.
The picture in my view shows a dog who has lost a fallen comrad in battle and is looking to the stars hoping one day he will be there too. This picture hit me hard
Lonesome Shore with a truly striking night sky. Lovely indeed. Thank you .
The starry sky is one of my favorite of Van Gogh and I really like all that she has done with the painting .
Looks like she added paper for a 3-D effect? Or else it's just ultra-thick paint. Either way, very cool.
Thank you so much for the feature!!
You're amazing! Such bold and fluid gestures and the homage is beautiful.
Personally (as an art lover) some of these works couldnt be painted any better by Van Gough himself. Particularly love the woodland landscape - #22
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me!
The beagle is really cute and i like the random stuff like the rv
I love them. I can see how one of her paintings got confused with one by Vincent Van Gogh. She made the best of the situation and I love the resulting series. She really got his style down and successfully combined it with her own style and with pop culture.
Thank you so much!
For anyone interested in purchasing the art, you can find it at https://www.etsy.com/shop/SagittariusGallery Thank you again, it means so much to me!!
Thanks for the link! I'm trying to find the one of the Eiffel Tower that sparked this series, and you have so much art! (Full disclosure: I am just curious, not trying to buy it.) Can you give us that link as well?
It's the piece at the following link. I should state before you see it - I honestly was dumbfounded that anyone could mistake this piece for a van Gogh, which is why it was hilarious to me in the first place and became a jumping off point for the van Gogh Never series of paintings, which emulate his work much more than the original piece that started it all. I still to this day do not understand how an educational site would ever think this was a van Gogh, but here you are - https://www.etsy.com/listing/207020450/eiffel-tower-art-paris-print-seine
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Thank you so much for the feature!!