"suggestive colour" or, as he would soon term it, "arbitrary colour" in which the artist infused his works with his emotions, typical of what was later called Expressionism. The painting is an instance of Van Gogh's use of what he called Unlike typical Impressionist works, the painter does not project a neutral stance towards the world or an attitude of enjoyment of the beauty of nature or of the moment. The work has been called one of Van Gogh's masterpieces and one of his most famous. The Potato Eaters", which it resembles somewhat in its use of lamplight and concerns for the condition of people in need. He also called it "the equivalent though different, of The violent exaggeration of the colours and the thick texture of the paint made the picture "one of the ugliest pictures I have done", Van Gogh wrote at one point. The next day (September 9), he wrote Theo: The white clothes of the landlord, watchful in a corner of that furnace, turn lemon-yellow, or pale luminous green.” Table, for instance, contrast with the soft tender Louis XV green of the counter, on which there is a rose nosegay.
The blood-red and the yellow-green of the billiard Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most alien reds and greens, in the figures of little sleeping hooligans, in the empty dreary room, in violet and blue. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle there are four lemon-yellow lamps with a glow of orange and I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. In one of the letters he describes this painting: The artist wrote his brother more than once about The Night Café. Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo van Gogh, and often included details of his latest work. It depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night, showing outdoor tables, a street scene and the night sky, was painted in Arles at about the same time. Prowlers can take refuge there when they have no money to pay for a lodging, or are too drunk to be taken in.” It is what they call here a cafe de nuit (they are fairly frequent here), staying open all night. Today I am probably going to begin on the interior of the cafe where I have a room, by gas light, in the evening. In August 1888 the artist told his brother in a letter: In a jocular passage of a letter Van Gogh wrote his brother, Theo, the artist said Ginoux had taken so much of his money that he'd told the cafe owner it was time to take his revenge by painting the place. The perspective looks somewhat downward toward the floor. The paint is applied thickly, with many of the lines of the room leading toward the door In wildly contrasting, vivid colours, the ceiling is green, the upper walls red, the glowing, gas ceiling lamps and floor largely yellow. The five customers depicted in the scene have been described as "three drunks and derelicts in a large public room huddled down in sleep or stupor."One scholar wrote, "The cafe was an all-night haunt of local down-and-outsĪnd prostitutes, who are depicted slouched at tables and drinking together at the far end of the room."
FiveĬustomers sit at tables along the walls to the left and right, and a waiter in a light coat, to one side of a billiard table near the center of the room, stands facing the viewer. It depicts the interior of the cafe, with a half-curtained doorway in the center background leading, presumably, to more private quarters. The painting was executed on industrial primed canvas of size 30 (French standard). Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and PipeĬourtesy of Vincent van Gogh painted The Night Café (original French title: Le Café de nuit) in Arles in September 1888.
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