Twinkling painting

Twinkling Painting
Real-world counterpart
The Starry Night
Year		Unknown
Artist		Vincent van Gogh
Main appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue WW CF NL NH
Name in other languages  またたくめいが  闪烁的名画  Toile scintillante  Paisaje estrellado  Quadro sfavillante  Звездная картина  반짝이는 명화  閃爍的名畫  Toile scintillante  Paisaje estrellado  Funkelgemälde  Nachtelijk schilderij

The Twinkling Painting is a piece of artwork introduced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This piece is based on the The Starry Night by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1889 (by coincidence, the same year Nintendo was founded); it is one of two van Gogh pieces to be featured in the Animal Crossing series, alongside the Flowery Painting. Depicting a sky full of stars, just before the sunrise, the painting remains one of van Gogh's most iconic works—and one of the most iconic pieces of art in western culture as a whole—for its distinctive, heavily post-impressionist imagery, even compared to van Gogh's other works. The meaning of the painting was never explicitly stated by the artist and as such has become a breeding ground for interpretations, ranging from artistic abstraction to a reflection of van Gogh's deteriorating mental state (with him having been institutionalized the previous year following a mental breakdown, before suffering a second one the month after the painting's completion; the painting specifically depicts the view from the window of his asylum cell, and van Gogh would commit suicide shortly after in 1890).

Art details

In New Horizons

The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Oil on canvas

Museum description	Van Gogh's signature piece, painted while he was hospitalized at an asylum. This view from his room includes memories and imaginations. In letters to friends, the artist called it a failure.
Buy price	4,980 Bells
Sell price	1,245 Bells
Obtain from	Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
Authenticity	Unknown
Furniture size

Authenticity

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there are no forgeries of this painting.

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The copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher/producer and/or artist(s) producing the work in question. It is believed that the use of web-resolution images of artwork for commentary on the scene or object in question qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

This image is an illustration of a scene or object from a video game.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher/producer and/or artist(s) producing the work in question. It is believed that the use of web-resolution images of artwork for commentary on the scene or object in question qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.