#2: Starry Night – Vincent van Gogh (1889)
From a small room in a French asylum, Van Gogh turned his window view into a sky that pulsed with emotion. He used thick layers of paint, letting each stroke swirl like a living thing. His Starry Night was his inner storm laid bare. Machines can copy texture, but they can’t ache.
Every curve in that sky told you he was reaching for peace he’d never find.