The Starry Night is one of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings and often referred to as his magnum opus ( think about the book Charlotte’s Web to remember what this means ). The painting shows the village of Saint-Remy under a swirling sky with a cypress tree in the foreground. Art historians think the painting is an example of the artist’s fascination with the nocturnal. The oil on canvas painting is hanging in The Museum of Modern Art in New York.