Labels:bulletin board | hakham | monitor | path | person | poster | reckoner | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: specia decorations but this never came to fruition Instead he requested Theo in May 1889 to exhibit his Stary Nighut over the Rhone is an example of his experimental nocturnal effects Thus month before he painted his Starry Night a1 Saint- -Remy he carefully considered a subject appropriate t the thematic emphasis of the World's Fair The symbolic linchpin of the 1889 extravaganza was the 1000- foot-high Eiffel Tower which both its partisans and critics compared toa secularized church steeple reaching impudently for the stars. Those mounting the uppermost platform likened the ascension t balloon flight. The notori aus group t artists wha opposed the tower published protest tagainst this "barbaric mass" which overwhelmed such Gothic monuments as Notre Dame Sainte Chapelle, and the Tour Saint ...