With his first “starry night” painting in Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh transformed an ordinary city square into something extraordinary – here’s how he did it, and what it means. Before there was The Starry Night, nine months before, to be exact, there was Café Terrace at Night. Painted in September 1888, the luminous portrayal of a lantern-lit coffeehouse in the Provençal city of Arles (to which Van Gogh had moved six months earlier) is capp…
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