Van Gogh Night Cafe With Pool Table

In wildly contrasting vivid colours the ceiling is green the upper walls red the glowing gas ceiling lamps and floor largely yellow.

Van gogh night cafe with pool table.

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. This poster is of vincent van gogh s night cafe with pool table. Most of the six figures are men but there is a woman at one table. It shows a man standing next to a 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 walls are lined with tables and chairs some occupied by figures hunched over the tables. Night café depicts the interior of a pool in arles place lamartine. 24 x 36 vincent van gogh was a dutch draughtsman and painter classified as a post impressionist a pioneer of expressionism.

This poster measures approx. It was the artist s intention to show the lowest edge of humanity without adornment with as much impact and sincerity as possible. A more striking van gogh canvas would be difficult to find but no one could call this particular picture beautiful. Standing close to the pool table leaning on another table is a standing figure wearing white the owner of the café.

It depicts the interior of the cafe with a half curtained doorway in the center background leading presumably to more private quarters. The mood is set by much more than color.