Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death.

Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ held a secret — and scientists just discovered the ‘hidden turbulence’ By Alex Mitchell Published Sep. 18, 2024, 3:24 p.m. ET ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889.

He painted "The Starry Night" in 1889 while living inside an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. He committed suicide in July 1890 two months after his release, according to the Van Gogh Gallery.

A person looks at Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" during a press preview for Van Gogh's Cypresses at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York on May 15, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Art & Tech Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Surprisingly Accurate, Say Physicists Van Gogh painted the work in a windowless studio at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

Scientists have determined the eddies in Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" adhere to Kolmogorov's law, a theory of turbulence that predicts atmospheric movement and scale based on inertial energy.

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