Twinkling painting

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The Twinkling Painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Real-world counterpart
The Starry Night
Year 1889
Artist Vincent van Gogh
Main appearances

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 painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons introduced in the 1.2.0 April Free Update. This piece is based on The Starry Night by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh; it is one of two van Gogh pieces to be featured in the Animal Crossing series, alongside the Flowery Painting.

Art details

In New Horizons

Twinkling painting
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 This painting is always genuine.
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0

Real-world information

The Starry Night

Painted in 1889, The Starry Night depicts a sky full of stars, just before the sunrise, and it 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).


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