Starry night is a museum quality art print of an original oil painting by vincent van gogh dutch painter vincent van gogh created starry night from memory of the view from the east facing window of his asylum room at saint rmy de provence you can see the view of the village with a large cypress tree on the left and the dark blue sky above studded with swirling yellow stars and the moon elements of the painting were used in the movie poster for the woody allen film midnight in paris in 2011