Night Cafe Vincent Van Gogh Analysis

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Night Cafe Who was Vincent Van Gogh? And why the night cafe is one of his masterpiece and most famous painting? In the Modernist world there were so many fabulous and famous paintings but in this essay I want to focus in Vincent Gogh.Vincent Gogh was born on March 30 of 1853 in Netherland. He studied paintings while living in Paris in 1886. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far reaching influence on 20th-century art. He never married he declared his love to Eugénie Loyer, but she reject him because she was already engaged with another man. Vincent Van Gogh had a short life, he passed way at the age of thirty-seven from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Van Gogh was often overcome with intense and uncontrollable emotions.On the other hand, Van Gogh was a fascinated painting in the modernist era and Night Cafe was one of his masterpiece and one of his most famous painting that he ever paint. Night Cafe is not something that we can call beautiful. Otherwise, we can see realists in the whole painting. The first implement in the painting of the night cafe is the depressing way that Van Gogh paint …show more content…
One because this cafe seems to be a place not only to go and get drunk or depress, but also to have fun.We can observe the billiard table in the middle of the room , where they can played and have fun.However, None of this people is taking advantage of it.They are there lonely and just getting depress. Van Gogh told his bother Theo in one of this letter that this was his interaction toward the painting. Gogh wrote the following “In the picture of the night cafe I have tried to express the idea that the cafe is place where one can ruin oneself, run mad, or commit a crime.” (The Humanity. 449) Gogh was trying to summit depression to the painting, and he accomplish his goal in this painting, because every time we observe the painting we can see the depression all over the

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