Van Gogh and the Universe

When I was young I used to painstakingly collect postcards and albums with reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings, which were rare in the Soviet Union. Nowadays the Internet and big size monitors give you possibility to endlessly enjoy master's canvases, and see details you never paid attention to before. And so I saw that the majority of the artist's works painted not long before his death started to depict the endless movement of the matter, invisible to the human eye, which made his paintings look very much like modern space images taken in different spectrums. Perhaps this visible connection between the artist's subconscious and the Universe is the main secret of his works.

I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to many museums and art galleries, the NASA, the ESA and other scientific institutions and internet resources for publishing through the Internet reproductions of paintings of Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, and of combined photos of the Universe. And also my special gratitude is for the artist Oleh Shuplyak.