Starry Night

I agree with you about everything except Starry Night.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

The layer cake with Starry Night, on closer look, is representing more than one painting, with only the top layer being Starry Night.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

And I agree that the CCC version of Starry Night is better.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

The intensity of Van Gogh's messianic vision, and the restorative powers he sought, and found, in his painting, underlie the deeply expressive character of many of his late works, especially "Starry Night."

Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision Mary Tompkins Lewis 2008

And I agree with the others that the cupcake Starry Night looks better than the cake version.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

The cupcake Starry Night, on the other hand, demonstrates a real understanding of the painting, even if it IS still demeaning.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

The Starry Night cake is actually using 3 different Van Gogh paintings, one for each layer, hence the orange icing in the middle.

The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

For Starry Night, pi written out to 50 decimal places, flowers, the alphabet, hopstotch, and peace signs?

and-the-way Diary Entry and-the-way 2008

She even has a preference for Van Gogh and Starry Night as her favorite painting.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005

Van Gogh referred to it in a letter to his brother Theo written about June 18, 1889, commenting, "At last I have a landscape with olives and also a new study of a starry night," thus pairing it with another now-famous painting, The Starry Night, with which it shares stylistic features on which van Gogh himself and later historians of art have commented.

Insight: A Visit to Ancient Glanum 1998