Van Gogh Night Cafe With Pool Table

A more striking van gogh canvas would be difficult to find but no one could call this particular picture beautiful.

Van gogh night cafe with pool table.

It was the artist s intention to show the lowest edge of humanity without adornment with as much impact and sincerity as possible. 24 x 36 vincent van gogh was a dutch draughtsman and painter classified as a post impressionist a pioneer of expressionism. This poster is of vincent van gogh s night cafe with pool table. One scholar wrote the cafe was an all night haunt of local down and outs and prostitutes who are depicted slouched at tables and drinking together at the far end of the room.

The lack of shadows apart from that cast by the pool table the hunched posture of the patrons and the scattered positions of the chairs and glasses the warped quality of the perspective itself. Five customers 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. The mood is set by much more than color. On the edges are other patrons sitting at tables.

Most of the six figures are men but there is a woman at one table. The walls are lined with tables and chairs some occupied by figures hunched over the tables. Standing close to the pool table leaning on another table is a standing figure wearing white the owner of the café. Night café depicts the interior of a pool in arles place lamartine.

This poster measures approx. It shows a man standing next to a pool table.