Day 261: Virtual Starry Night

Post-Impressionist art, anyone? :)

Welcome to the Virtual Starry Night, a virtual exhibit of Vincent van Gogh's work in Second Life.

This is totally thanks to Deedee who told me about this amazing exhibit :)



Yep, van Gogh is the one with the famous Sunflowers :)

Virtual Starry Night has 3 areas: Portraits & People, Landscapes, and Stillifes. Each contains a maze of rooms with van Gogh's paints from all over the world.

The nice thing is that each painting has the name of the painting and where it is on display. There are paintings from Amsterdam, New York, Paris, and many other cities around the world. There are also paintings from private collections.



And heres the gallery's namesake: "Starry Night", currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

There are also tidbits about van Gogh's life throughout the gallery.



And heres Vincent himself!

I dont know how he can paint so many self-portraits! I have problems just taking pix of myself :P

Oh, you are welcome to take photos and videos :) As long as you dont use the flash, of course :P



And the absolute coolest part about Virtual Starry Night are the 3D paintings. When Deedee first told me about this place, I didnt know what she meant by being *IN* a van Gogh painting...

Well, you can literally go into a 3D version of van Gogh's painting :)



So I can sit on the pool table in van Gogh's painting, "The Night Cafe" :)

The gallery reproduced several of the paintings as complete scenes in Second Life, so you can walk around inside the painting...



How about "A Bridge in the Rain"? Complete with particle rain, of course :)



This is probably the coolest way to look at van Gogh's work. If you are interested in modern art, you really have to see this! Click on Search, select Places, and enter "starry night" as the keyword. The SLURL is Luctesa (95,193,66).



Heres van Gogh's long lost masterpiece: "Mermaid in the Bedroom" :)