Look at the difference between these trees drawn just four years apart, in 1884 and 1888: Now compare his use of color in this painting of Paris from 1886 with his choices in “Starry Night” in ...

“The Starry Night” pictures outsized twinkling stars and a crescent Moon amid a swirling chaos of azure sky. Like many impressionistic paintings of the time, it uses “broken color” — the ...