Cafe Terrace at Night - Vincent Van Gogh
HISTORY OF ART 5
OUTCOME: Analysis
Café Terrace at night: Van Gogh
The outcome that I choose is analysis to compare, to contrast, to distinguish, to point out and to relate the painting charateristics.
The painting “Café Terrace at Night” was a painting made by Van Gogh. Today, it was called Café Van Gogh it was placed in Paris. It was a painting representing the exterior of the café at night. In the painting you will notice the light coming from the cafeteria it was yellow and it is scattered around the place, even in the rocky flooring the yellow pinkish violet and blue shadows of it gives the rough texture on the painting. The colors that Van Gogh uses were so bright even if it is in nighttime, the yellow, orange, green and he uses blue and violet instead of black. As you observe the painting has a perspective and it emphasizes the Café Terrace the tables, chairs and the people around it. The man in a white clothes standing gives an emphasis and your eyes towards to the man with the yellow dress to the man in red clothes in the street. Each element has a connection, the movement of your eyes will tell. The remarkable night sky of Van Gogh was shown in this painting it was like a “Starry Night” one of the famous painting of Van Gogh, it was blue sky with yellow stars. The stroke of the brush was obvious because of the style impressionism. And Van Gogh also emphasizes the terrace, as you can see it was the only part that was so bright. He uses a tone of yellow and orange like the light of a candle. Furthermore the structure of the houses and buildings was not parallel in terms of one point perspective. The windows, jamb, ceiling of the terrace doesn’t fall to the perspective of the painting. You will see leaves from a tree and it was significant from the painting, it has a flow from the leaves to the ceiling of the terrace to the lamp light and to the chairs and tables to the man in white clothes to the people in the streets to the last tower to the
OUTCOME: Analysis
Café Terrace at night: Van Gogh
The outcome that I choose is analysis to compare, to contrast, to distinguish, to point out and to relate the painting charateristics.
The painting “Café Terrace at Night” was a painting made by Van Gogh. Today, it was called Café Van Gogh it was placed in Paris. It was a painting representing the exterior of the café at night. In the painting you will notice the light coming from the cafeteria it was yellow and it is scattered around the place, even in the rocky flooring the yellow pinkish violet and blue shadows of it gives the rough texture on the painting. The colors that Van Gogh uses were so bright even if it is in nighttime, the yellow, orange, green and he uses blue and violet instead of black. As you observe the painting has a perspective and it emphasizes the Café Terrace the tables, chairs and the people around it. The man in a white clothes standing gives an emphasis and your eyes towards to the man with the yellow dress to the man in red clothes in the street. Each element has a connection, the movement of your eyes will tell. The remarkable night sky of Van Gogh was shown in this painting it was like a “Starry Night” one of the famous painting of Van Gogh, it was blue sky with yellow stars. The stroke of the brush was obvious because of the style impressionism. And Van Gogh also emphasizes the terrace, as you can see it was the only part that was so bright. He uses a tone of yellow and orange like the light of a candle. Furthermore the structure of the houses and buildings was not parallel in terms of one point perspective. The windows, jamb, ceiling of the terrace doesn’t fall to the perspective of the painting. You will see leaves from a tree and it was significant from the painting, it has a flow from the leaves to the ceiling of the terrace to the lamp light and to the chairs and tables to the man in white clothes to the people in the streets to the last tower to the
References: Background[edit source | editbeta] The woman in the painting is Christina Olson (3 May 1893–27 January 1968)