Analyzing Cafe at Night Painted by Vincent Van Gogh Essay

Analyzing Cafe at Night Painted by Vincent Van Gogh I have chosen to write my paper on painting titled â€Å"Cafà © at Night† by Vincent Van Gogh. Since this picture is a very popular one, I might have seen it a couple times before I actually decided to write about it. I feel warmth, streaming out of it, when I take a look at the â€Å"Cafà © at Night†. This comfortable feeling made me select this artwork. This picture shows a cobbled street, probably somewhere in the south of Europe, at night. In the very front there is just the street, and in the left corner there is the edge of a building that is painted in dark blue. It looks like there is no light coming out of this building, and it does not seem to be very important for the view, Van Gogh†¦show more content†¦There are some people sitting at several tables, a waiter is taking an order. A few tables are placed on the street, they are standing apart from the others. In front of the cafà ©, where a few tables seem to be set out of order, a little boy is passing by. He seems to play with a kind of yoyo as he walks by. Taking look more to the right, a couple is standing ahead of a strip of buildings that is located at the other side of the road. Apart from a window behind the couple, the entire strip is dark. This window is not as light as the cafà © on the other side, but it implies movement behind it. Looking along the b uilding strip, the faà §ade is getting darker as one’s view is moving to the very back of the strip, or the middle of the painting. One can imagine another couple, way back on the road and a person, walking with a dog, just reaching the very edge of the cafà © coming out of the dark. Just above the cafà © is another building showing up, covering the dark sky, the strip on the other side of the road does not seem to reach that high. Those houses allow the viewer to have a look at the incredible dark and also clear sky that is sprinkled with stars. â€Å"Cafà © at Night† caught my eye, because I feel a certain relation to it. I would not be able to say why, but I am very sure that van Gogh painted a scene in southern Europe. When you have ever been in the south of France, living the style the people down there live, youShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Van Gogh s Agony By Lauren Soth And Under The Starry Night By Denis J. Billy Essay2419 Words   |  10 PagesOne of the most mysterious and thought-provoking images to date was painted in 1889 from a mental health institution in St. Remy, France by non-other than Vincent Van Gogh. The opulence of blues and yellows has the ability bring a viewer to its knees, mostly in a subconscious manner that evokes a kind of spiritual quest, perhaps one that Van Gogh was on himself. The Starry Night is still heavily contemplated and its meaning is still relatively unknown and quite debated, as is the man himself.