In 1888 Van Gogh created The Night Café using oil paints on a canvas. It's title alone depicts it almost to a tee, however, what one might envision without seeing it would be completely subjective. The same concept can be applied to what one feels when looking at this work. The painting depicts a very eerie room with colors that clash and are almost painful to look at. However, you’re drawn in by a man standing off in the corner of the room who appears to be staring at you. He almost looks as though he doesn’t belong and one could imagine that so do you to him, but there is no you in the painting, you yourself out of the painting is the you in the painting.
When looking at this work it immediately makes me feel very lonely, almost anxious. The focal point seems to be the center of the room, more so the pool table and the waiter. The waiter stands out more than anything else because of his cream and yellow under toned outfit. The reason he stands out so much is because the walls are almost florescent red, the lights are this mac and cheese yellow, and in various places the most prevalent being the pool table is a puke green. So a cream colored object is bound to stand out and look almost as though it doesn’t belong. One can’t be entirely sure what the topic of this work is as it’s not something that is so clear. Perhaps it’s the …show more content…
It looks as though there are faint shadows behind almost everything in the work. While the size of the work is small the shadows are natural and life sized. The art work isn’t very big, it’s about as wide as a medium sized body would be. Given how wide it is the figures are far from life size. Technically speaking it changes nothing from my own perspective because I can view it at a much larger size than those who view it in person. In person it might look quite odd to be viewing tiny people in a tiny café. Almost like a portal into the tiny
When looking at this work it immediately makes me feel very lonely, almost anxious. The focal point seems to be the center of the room, more so the pool table and the waiter. The waiter stands out more than anything else because of his cream and yellow under toned outfit. The reason he stands out so much is because the walls are almost florescent red, the lights are this mac and cheese yellow, and in various places the most prevalent being the pool table is a puke green. So a cream colored object is bound to stand out and look almost as though it doesn’t belong. One can’t be entirely sure what the topic of this work is as it’s not something that is so clear. Perhaps it’s the …show more content…
It looks as though there are faint shadows behind almost everything in the work. While the size of the work is small the shadows are natural and life sized. The art work isn’t very big, it’s about as wide as a medium sized body would be. Given how wide it is the figures are far from life size. Technically speaking it changes nothing from my own perspective because I can view it at a much larger size than those who view it in person. In person it might look quite odd to be viewing tiny people in a tiny café. Almost like a portal into the tiny