At night, the cafe terrace in arles Square.
Oil painting on canvas 81.0x65.5cm.
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1888 In February, Van Gogh was recommended by a friend to come to arles, a small town in the south of France. Arles is one of Van Gogh's favorite cities in his life. Van Gogh came to this city and fell in love with it soon. Violent sunshine and harsh wheat fields made him "crazy" and his creation reached its peak. Many of his classic works were also created here. For example, Langloire Bridge, Night Cafe, Yellow House, etc. , including the sunshine and bright colors of Provence that once bloomed in the painter's pen, still have traces to follow.
In arles, Van Gogh often went to Algasa Cafe to observe depressed souls and paint with scenes in the cafe. In the painting cafe at night, the people in the painting exude the breath of the devil.
"On the exterior of a cafe, there is a balcony illuminated by a big gas in the blue night sky, and there is a blue sky with stars shining in a corner. I often think that night is more lively and colorful than day "(Fan? 6? 1 high)
Where is it? 6? 1 High Lancashire Cafe, borrowed from May to September 18, located in Place du Form. Because it is open all night, it is called "night cafe". He once spent two nights painting an indoor work in a cafe, and the cafe in the evening was a work of the same period. He often thinks that night is more vibrant than day, so he runs outdoors several times to draw stars in the clouds. In the painting, the orange canopy illuminated by the gas lamp forms an isomorphic and reverse contrast with the dark blue starry sky, which seems to imply a complex mentality of hope and regret, fantasy and boldness. Where is it? 6? 1 Gao has slowly revealed his complex, uneasy, hesitant and nervous mental state on the screen. One week, he survived by 23 cups of coffee and some pieces of bread for four days.
The working cafe at night uses strong and exciting colors, which is the most powerful in Van Gogh's indoor paintings. This is a disturbing work that washes away extreme fanaticism. In order to reflect the depth of the room, Van Gogh chose a high viewpoint and organized the scene radially around the pool table in the middle. The accurate perspective line and the radiation of the gas lamp are dazzled by the aperture of complementary colors of yellow, red and green, which makes people feel uncomfortable. The cafe is so deserted, a few people are extremely small, scattered on both sides of the museum, making the space more empty, lonely and desolate. The vitality of the work itself diffuses from the ceiling lamp, the illuminated back door and the table and floor of billiards.
This is the true face of the midnight cafe. It accepts homeless Nightcrawler or drunken people. Van Gogh chose pink, blood red, distiller's grains and contrasting colors of green, azurite, olive green and dazzling turquoise to create another reality: "In my oil painting cafe at night, I want to try my best to express the idea that cafes are places where people destroy themselves, go crazy or commit crimes. I will try my best to show people's terrible passion in red and green. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle; There are four lemon yellow lights that emit orange and green light in the room. The conflict and contrast between red and green are completely different from those of the little villains who fall asleep in the dark and dreary rooms of purple and blue. In a corner, the white coat of a customer who stayed up late turned lemon yellow or light green. " "This is a sulfur furnace of a demon that makes people lose their minds, degenerate and commit crimes, and it is full of the darkness peculiar to all inferior pubs."
Where is it? 6? 1 Gao loves different levels of blue in the southern sky, just like the bright yellow of the earth under the sun. His works in arles often mix these two complementary colors to make the pictures bright and gorgeous. Here, Van? 6? The height of 1 depicts the outdoor scene of the cafe. The bright lights in the room are sprinkled on the cobblestone square outside the house. In the dark blue night sky, the stars twinkle like bright snuff. The atmosphere of the whole picture is warm and comfortable, which is in sharp contrast with the indoor scenery of his cafe. Where is it? 6? 1 Use white and bright yellow to describe the stars in the sky with a few strokes. Dark blue strokes are dotted around, the blue gradually fades, and the strokes are criss-crossed, showing the effect of stars. On the other hand, the ground facing the opposite starlight is made up of strokes of different colors, without mixing; Black strokes are used to represent pebbles on the ground.
Give it to Emile? 6? 1 Bernard's letter, where is it? 6? 1 Gao wrote: "I am fascinated by depicting night scenes, night scene effects and the night itself. This week, I did nothing but draw, eat and sleep. That is to draw for twelve hours at a time, or draw for sixteen hours at a time, and then sleep for twelve hours in a row. "
Vincent. 6? 1 where? 6? This painting with a height of 1 is one of many noteworthy works. Besides, it's also a van? 6? One of the most famous works, Height 1. This work is the first part of the starlight trilogy. A year later, within a month after Saint Remy created the famous starry sky, the starry sky on the Rhone River was also completed. An interesting fact can be found from the portrait of Eugene Bohr. Starlight is the background of this work.
Vincent enthusiastically introduced the cafe terrace to his sister Wilhelmina in his works. "I interrupted the work of depicting the outside of the cafe at night. There are coffee drinkers in this cafe. A huge yellow light scatters the light from cafes, houses and sidewalks, and also shines on the sidewalks in the street, where there is a pink-purple tone. Looking at the tree-lined spire houses in the street, you can see the blue sky, and the stars twinkle in the dark blue or purple sky. You can use beautiful blue, purple and green instead of black. In that environment, there is a kind of light sulfur color, and there is a kind of wood yellow in Qing Xiang. Painting outside at night makes me feel very interesting. People often draw sketches during the day and watercolors and oil paintings at night, but I will be satisfied if I draw them right away. " (W7:65438+9 September 0888 and 16)
Vincent then told Wilhelmina that there was a similar passage in Guy de Maupassant's book "Beautiful Paris": "In the starry Paris at night, there is a bright cafe on the boulevard, just as I described it."
Where is it? 6? 1 Gao often gets inspiration from literary works or the works of other painters (such as what he copied? 6? 1 Miller's works). The cafe terrace and clichy Avenue in Ankaiting's Evening are similar in style and composition. Where is it? 6? 1 Gao found inspiration from an qiding's works. What is this inspiration? 6? This situation of cafe terrace is unique in all works with a height of 1 Note that the lines of everything in the picture point directly to the horse and car in the center of the work.
Everything seems to be dragged into a whirlpool, but at the same time the picture is very calm. All the scenes are in the dark, but there is no darkness.
After Vincent finished this painting 100 years ago, this cafe has always been a place for arles people to drink. Now it is called Van? 6? The coffee shop with a height of 1 still retains the yellow awning and everything.
Where is it in this work? 6? 1 Height uses a vertical line, a horizontal line and two diagonal lines to cut the picture. The vanishing point, that is, the convergence point of the perspective line, is located in the center of the picture.
Here, we can't ignore this character-a person with orange hair. Dressed in blue, he sat curled up on the right side of the table. This reminds us of Van Gogh himself-orange hair, blue eyes and blue coat. Orange and blue are his favorite colors. Just like the sad picture of the Virgin Mary embracing the crucified Christ, he always uses this special TINT to integrate himself into the picture. Van Gogh once said, "This is the ugliest painting I have ever painted. I want to use red and green to express people's terrible lust. " However, he also has a blue painting called "Night Open-air Cafe", which depicts the Algasa Cafe.
Today, the bridge painted by Van Gogh is still there, and the river flows quietly under it. The cafe painted by Van Gogh is still there. People who come here sit down for a cup of espresso in the south of France. This cafe still completely retains the appearance of Van Gogh's paintings more than 100 years ago, but the walls are deliberately painted in khaki. The outdoor seats outside the cafe are different from the tables and chairs in Van Gogh's paintings, and they have been replaced by iron chairs, without deliberately restoring their original appearance. There are few guests here around three or four o'clock every afternoon. Occasionally, there will be a guide to show tourists around. Sit down and have a cup of coffee. What these people are trying to pursue. However, time will not go back. Only when it was getting dark, the stars rose little by little, and the sky showed a faint blue color. As soon as the light in front of the cafe lights up, people will suddenly feel all this. 6? 1 Gao Hua's "Night Open-air Cafe" is exactly the same.
100 years ago, when poor painters walked on these streets, of course, they didn't expect that this ordinary cafe would be world-famous because of Van Gogh in 100 years. Today, when we sit in this cafe again with a cup of hot coffee in our hands, there always seems to be a hunch that Van Gogh will be the next person to push through the door.