NIght Cafe in Arles Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Vincent van Gogh – NIght Cafe in Arles
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Painter: Vincent van Gogh
Location: Private Collection
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According to Van Gogh himself, the painting Night Café was created to convey the effect of looking at the surroundings of a public establishment through the eyes of a drunken man whose thoughts, understanding of what was going on, and reason were clouded by inebriated drunkenness. The painting was made on industrial primed canvas. The painting depicts the interior of a cafe. The accent of the central background is the curtains carelessly drawn by Van Gogh’s light hand.
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Description of Van Gogh’s painting Night Cafe
According to Van Gogh himself, the painting Night Café was created to convey the effect of looking at the surroundings of a public establishment through the eyes of a drunken man whose thoughts, understanding of what was going on, and reason were clouded by inebriated drunkenness.
The painting was made on industrial primed canvas. The painting depicts the interior of a cafe. The accent of the central background is the curtains carelessly drawn by Van Gogh’s light hand. This carelessness of all lines and gives a sense of light intoxication, and even a certain vertigo.
Surprisingly accurately conveyed the artist, the feeling that the visitors, also depicted on the canvas. Five customers whom fate has brought to this night institution for various reasons, are seated at tables along the walls. The tables are arranged in such a way that a waiter in a white suit is able to serve each of the visitors without any problem.
In the picture it is not possible to see the outlines of the visitors’ faces or the lines of the interior. Apparently the same is seen by those who decided to visit the cafe that night.
At the center of the picture is a billiard table, to which, on this night, visitors do not hurry to approach to play a game. A great deal of alcohol is depicted in the background of the painting. Apparently with this, Van Gogh gives another sense of the purpose of people coming to this café. Van Gogh depicts this painting through the eyes of a visitor sitting at the very end of the room, observing everything that is going on in this "hazy" room.
The predominance of green in the painting is not accidental. It is that shade of green that gives a sense of self-destruction and loneliness. At the same time, the bright red walls give a sense of unease, fear and anxiety, of which the unhappy visitors will soon forget for a while.
Van Gogh’s Night Café is a place where everyone can pour out their troubles with a shot, another cheap and not so cheap cognac or whiskey. Moreover, each customer portrayed by Van Gogh seems to have his own particular life story, radically different from the story of another customer who happens to be in the night cafe on the same night.
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