Everything Under The Moon by Pública Rework: Daylight in the Water

Everything Under The Moon is an art print by Pública Rework that sets a woman with a parasol on a green bank between Van Gogh's night sky and Monet's water lily pond. The moon is up and the stars are turning. Look down into the pond, though, and the water is still holding a pale daytime sky.

Everything Under The Moon by Pública Rework is an art print combining four paintings: The Starry Night (1889) and Green Wheat Fields, Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh, with Woman with a Parasol (1875) and Water Lilies (1906) by Claude Monet. It is printed on Fine Art Freja paper at 265 g in two sizes.

The pond reflects a different sky

The sky above this picture is night, and the sky inside the pond is day. The upper half of the sheet belongs to The Starry Night: a crescent moon in a wide yellow halo at the top right, stars ringed in light, and a long pale current sweeping across the middle. Everything up there is blue, deep and moving.

Below the bank lies Monet's pond, and it is lit by something else entirely. The water is a clear pale blue drifting into lilac, with soft white patches lying on the surface where clouds are reflected, and pink lilies floating among green pads. There is no moon in the water and no star. Of all the yellow in the sky, none of it reaches the pond.

That is not an accident of assembly. When Monet painted Water Lilies in 1906 he had given up the horizon altogether and looked straight down at the surface of his pond. The only sky in his picture was the one reflected in it. Pública Rework has now hung a sky above that water, and the pond goes on showing the sky Monet saw.

Between the two stands Camille Monet, on a bank of Van Gogh's green wheat, with her parasol raised. A parasol is for the sun. Monet painted her on a windy summer's day in 1875, and under this moon she is still holding it up, dressed in the soft light of that afternoon.

Four paintings, two from each painter

Everything Under The Moon is built from four well known paintings, two by Vincent van Gogh and two by Claude Monet, and each one lends a single part of the scene.

The sky and the moon come from The Starry Night, which Van Gogh painted at Saint-Rémy in June 1889. The bank comes from Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, painted in the last months of his life in 1890. In the print the field ends in a scalloped edge of bright yellow green and drops straight into the water, a shoreline made for this picture.

The figure comes from Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son, painted in 1875. Her son, Jean, has not come with her, and Camille stands on the bank alone. The water comes from Water Lilies, painted in 1906, sixteen years after Van Gogh's death. Two of the four originals, the woman and the wheat field, hang in the same museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Pública Rework chose the four for how their colours, tones and brushwork sit together, and it signs the result in the lower right corner, out on the water: an open brush circle with the two painters' names in small type beneath it. Everything Under The Moon was first introduced in January 2021, when Pública Rework arrived at NOKUKO.

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Choosing a size, and where it hangs

Everything Under The Moon comes in two sizes, 30x40 cm and 50x70 cm, and both hold the same composition, with the moon at the top right and the lilies at the foot of the pond.

It is a bright print. Almost the whole sheet is blue, yellow green and lilac, so it sits easily against pale walls and light wood, as it does in the product photographs, and it brings colour to a room that has little of its own. The smaller size suits a desk, a shelf or a group of frames. The larger one holds a wall by itself.

Both sizes are printed on Fine Art Freja paper at 265 g, which keeps the blues of the sky and the lilac of the water distinct from one another. The frame shown in the photographs is for illustration and is not included.

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in daylight, from memory, looking back on a view he had seen at night. So even the one night picture in this print was made by day.

Hang it where the light in the room changes. Whatever the hour, the sky will say night, the water will say afternoon, and the woman with the parasol will stand on the bank between them, in no hurry to decide which one she believes.

About Everything Under The Moon

What paper is Everything Under The Moon printed on?
It is printed on Fine Art Freja paper at 265 g, the heavier art paper NOKUKO uses for its art prints, chosen for how faithfully it holds colour. The print is sold without a frame, and the frame shown in the product images is for illustration only.

What sizes does Everything Under The Moon come in?
Two sizes, 30x40 cm and 50x70 cm. Both hold the same composition, with the moon in the upper right corner and the water lily pond in the lower right.

Does Everything Under The Moon come in different editions or colourways?
No. There is one version of this print, offered in the two sizes. It combines The Starry Night and Green Wheat Fields, Auvers by Vincent van Gogh with Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son and Water Lilies by Claude Monet.

Is Everything Under The Moon exclusive to NOKUKO, and is it a limited edition?
It is made by Pública Rework and available only at NOKUKO. It is an open edition art print rather than one of NOKUKO's limited editions, and no certificate of authenticity is issued, because certificates accompany original paintings rather than prints.

Written by NOKUKO.