Van Gogh Night Cafe With Pool Table

It depicts the interior of the cafe with a half curtained doorway in the center background leading presumably to more private quarters.

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. Most of the six figures are men but there is a woman at one table. 24 x 36 vincent van gogh was a dutch draughtsman and painter classified as a post impressionist a pioneer of expressionism. The walls are lined with tables and chairs some occupied by figures hunched over the tables.

This poster is of vincent van gogh s night cafe with pool table. On the edges are other patrons sitting at tables. It was the artist s intention to show the lowest edge of humanity without adornment with as much impact and sincerity as possible. 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.

This poster measures approx. A more striking van gogh canvas would be difficult to find but no one could call this particular picture beautiful. It shows a man standing next to a 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.

The mood is set by much more than color. 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.