I am working on my accompanying painting for the star poem. I was researching how Van Gogh did stars, because I love his paintings. I will wind up with a different style, but I at least wanted a reference of how a master painted them. The only thing I know for sure is that I want to include at least an inference to the Big Dipper. If anybody is like me, they look for the Big Dipper first thing in the sky. When I checked Van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone...I was shocked. There it is! I have seen that painting many times and never noticed the Big Dipper staring at me. Vincent would have called it Steelpannetje (saucepan), but there it is.
I have to check Vincent's notes to see if he specifically noted the Big Dipper in his painting, or if he wanted it to be subliminal.
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As a child 100 and some years ago in Baghdad, Big Dipper was always in the sky so clear same place ( relative to an important location, which is where my bed was on the roof top ...hahahah... summer in summer out for years) as long as I can remeber. ...
In Arabic it is called ( Great Bear )I was never able to visualize the bear, it is a saucepan........I am a big Dipper/Bear/saucepan fan...keep digging Keith, thank you.
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