This Van Gogh Painting Will Make You Uncomfortable
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This piece is called The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh. Is it beautiful? I wouldn’t say so. Charming? probably not. Striking? I think you could say that. Nevertheless, it’s now considered one of Vincent van Gogh’s greatest masterpieces. Van Gogh on the other hand, hated this painting and called it “one of the ugliest pictures I have done”. But why would Van Gogh talk about his own painting in such a negative way?
It’s no secret that van Gogh lived a troubled life. He also hated the nightlife scene, which is one of the reasons he left Paris. Maybe in creating this painting, he was warning others just as much as he was reminding himself.
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Waittt- I think I had a similar thing like 7 yrs ago wth
I can easily see why the artist hated this painting: it was his mirror, though he didn't realize it. That was a metaphorical depiction of his life, and his vices. Great contrast of such potential, yet not enough production. Having such hope, that evaproates with booze. In the day light, this could be a quaint little cafe, but after midnight, it's a place of despair.
You must be pretty young or just not a drinker, because given what I have observed about "quaint little bars or cafes" that serve beverages "stronger than espresso", they frequently tend to be much more depressing in the DAY than at night.(At least the ones I have seen....And drank at ). Also, if ol' Vincent is STARTING to drink at 12 noon, and STILL drinking at 12 MIDNIGHT, then yeah.....He is probably going to come up with such paintings! But obviously he had A LOT of brain cells to sacrifice, because if I drank like HE probably did, I probably would not be able to merely hold a paintbrush...Or hold MYSELF up!😅😶)
@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 I have no doubts I'm older than you, but I also know history; and I understand addiction and what booze will do to the body.
You cannot super impose modern realities onto the past. Sure, that little dive bar today would be more lively at night, but not after 12pm. Most cities put a curfew on bars around midnight.
The clock is critical to defining the mood in this painting: the only people left are the dregs of society... people who truly have nowhere to go...you know- the homeless of the day- a very depressing sight.
By this time, all financially secure people would be in a home; not necessarily in bed, but in a home drinking and eating until almost dawn; providing they are above the working class. Again, the working class would be preparing for bed, by this time.
All the happy financially sound people won't be in that establishment until the bright hours of lunch the next day. This is not a wealthy establishement, so the owner won't see wealthy people who have no jobs to get to, so they have no bedtime. The only folks he will see are the average wage passer bys, and/or the locals- who have jobs.
I've seen numerous documentaries on Van Gogh and the man stayed on a upper level buzzed, if not out right drunk. He drank from the time he woke up until he passed out. When the human body lives like that day in day out, it begins to acclimate. At that point, the artist cannot produce while sober; they can't think straight sober; they don't have their genius, while sober. Yet, the alcohol still drepresses higher brain functions, and eye/hand coordination, so their genius still looks like a drunk produced it. I have no doubts, most of this painting was done on a upper level drunk.
However Absynthe of the day was loaded with toxins, to the point most countries banned it's production until the late 20th century, when the toxins could be removed. Van Gogh wasn't merely drunk, he was also poisoning his body. He drank more than he ate food, and the poisons affected the brain; which affected his mental stability, as well.
@@Objective-Observer Thank you for the comment. Duly noted.
🤯🤯🤯 well said
Also its ugly af
Yay finally van gogh! I know it's so cliché to say and common. But van gogh really is my favorite artist. His paints and artwork are just so beautiful to me.
I feel ya, me too.
just because the artist gets a lot of appreciation and recognition doesn't detract from uniqueness and quality of their work! no shame in having a good taste^^
same 🥰🥰 my favorite artist even if it’s “basic” … he is iconic for a reason!!
He was a genius.
I fuking hate impressionist paintings lol. They are just not appealing to look at. I don't understand it at all. It's like looking at a low resolution photo and being like yup that's fuking beautiful lol. What's appealing about it to you?
He was incredibly lucky that he had Theo in his life. Theo recognised and supported his brothers genius.
def overpowering with his mental health issues, too
Novelist Malcolm Bradbury, in his 1960s campus novel “Eating People Is Wrong”, wrote of Van Gogh that, so far from being insane, he was in fact “afflicted with sanity of the most painful kind”. Depressed, yes, a heavy drinker, yes, but always structured, articulate and insightful. The hallmarks of madness include chaotic thinking and the inability to engage with external reality, whereas Van Gogh, in painting after painting, turns chaos into order and pain into great art, which is why we love him so.
Masterfully stated. Excellent way to put it. 🕊
Reminds me of Pratchett's theory of drunkness. See, every person produces a small amount of alcohol internally. We are ever so slightly drunk all the time. This is necessary to be able to deal with everyday life. You can get completely sober by drinking the really strong Klatchian coffee, and see the world for how it really is. Never, NEVER do this.
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Kinda "red pill/blue pill" stuff
@Erik Johanssen
“You can get completely sober by drinking the really strong Klatchian coffee, and see the world for how it really is”
The same effects can be achieved through moderate to sever vitamin B deficiency.
So On Point!👆
I find it VERY interesting to compare the night skies in these paintings, knowing that they were viewed without the light pollution we have today. Can we imagine what it must have been like to just step outside and see the constellations so easily?
I experienced this near my home earlier this year, i was coming back at night and for some reason street ligths were off. At some point i looked at the sky and it was quite surreal to be able to see it like it should naturally be. It was not the usual dark sky with a few stars, there was the milky way up there ! Mindblowing experience.
if you don't live in a city it's pretty easy
I always see the stars my city is located in what is known as a blue hole where the ozone layer is thinner so we have some amazingly clear night skys.
@@thegoodplebian4769 Someday, I'd like to take an ocean voyage and really get away from light pollution. Maybe Antarctica...
@@cosmicabyss7358 That must be fantastic!!
Woah, Van Gogh really is someone who expressed himself with his works.
Although he was quite a peculiar individual, we can all agree that art in any form is always the chosen method of expressing oneself by people that don't know how to relate to others, and/or feel out of place in the mundane life of 'normal' people (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。
He felt out of place with the 'common man', e.g., these townspeople who feared him because he dressed differently, hated him because he had a Dutch accent, bullied him because he was not 'one of them' and ONLY because he was not one of them.
Interviews with the bully brother whom we now know killed Van Gogh prove this, as does the ample testimony of the 'common man' of that village whonwere still alive when "Lust for Life" was filmed...
People with little education, little appreciation of beauty, and those first reaction to someone different was to fear, aka, hate...
@@midnightchannel111 I’m sure someone who made a living as a painter did seem very odd to people who lived in a tiny town out of the way. Reminds me of the Doors song, “People are strange”. I think that’s the title?
I was thinking the lack of windows would indicate this was a basement. And the elevated point of view was entering from the top of stairs. When you first enter from the dark outside, lights would seem blurry and colors muted.
As a child I could never understand how the same artist that created the luminous dark of Starry Starry Night or the brooding beauty of a vase of dying sunflowers could paint a piece as ugly and stark as this one and the Potato Eaters. It never occurred to me that anything other than beauty could be worthy subject matter. I wish that my younger self could have benefited from your commentary. Instead, my adult self is the one to learn from your insights. Just as good. Thank you 😊
The Potato Eaters and Starry Starry Night are my to favorite Van Goghs. As a child, on seeing them both in a book, I thought they made the most wonderful story together. I imagined this family sharing in the work of the day under the blanket of stars. I guess for some reason it made me think of the lyrics of It's A Wonderful World. "The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night".
I have to say beauty is a concept just as ugliness is.
Hello Megan, apparently you were a smart/educated/exposed child-to even have such thoughts-or even to have seen such works. I envy your childhood. I had no such “exposure” as a child. My only recollection of art as a kid was seeing (and “falling in love with) Rousseau’s jungle paintings. They were the most amazing thing I’d (literally) ever seen. But now as a (sort of) grown man/artist whose seen thousands of works of Art (and made his own “countless” art) I have to say, I have never considered this or the Potato Eaters as “ugly.” I think Potato Eaters is one of the most moving and powerful pieces I’ve ever seen/ever created. It moved me the very instant I first saw it. I also think it’s perhaps, the “saddest” art ever created. But! At the same time it’s also (perhaps) the “Truest” art ever made-alongside Dorothea Lang’s Migrant Mother. So, does the grown woman still consider those works “ugly” or was that just the little girl in you? BTW, I m (red/green) colorblind ergo I see this 9and everything) differently than you/most of the world :)
@@leonardodalongisland Just the little girl in me, thankfully! I didn't have any art exposure as a child at home, but I loved flipping through art encyclopedias at the library. Rousseau was also magical to me then (and still is!) and Escher and the surrealists made me want to be an artist. I now see the Potato Eaters as the deepest type of beauty ( if I can reclaim that abused word, Beauty) because it is true and raw and closer to the lived experience of most of the humans that have walked on this earth than the glossy contrived depictions of mythical characters so often depicted in art (though truth be told, I love those stylized pieces as well! ). I'm just glad now that there is no limit on art or Beauty and that many many pieces have a story to tell. I'm glad to live in a world of Muchness. Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
@@meganlumley3719 Thanks for your thoughtful reply.. I'm also a huge Escher fan. Btw, is Hammer related to Escher ? :)
"Man I really wanna move to Japan. Well, guess the south of France will have to do."
I think the painting is very successful, as it portrays exactly what he wanted to portray. The misery of a seedy little bar with drunkards full of hopelessness and the glare of the bright lights on this garish fact. The conflicting colors make one's stomach turn. He did a good job, and that is why he did not like it. Because misery and garishness are what he painted, and to him that was ugly. It is good and ugly in my opinion, and that makes it interesting and successful as it portrays exactly what it is supposed to portray. The reality and garishness of life sometimes. The red edges on me a little, and the lights send me over the edge. I like the reality and stark and ugly contrasts of the painting.
I love this and every one of VV's works. As for “The conflicting colors make one's stomach turn.” I find this to be such a bizarre and incomprehensible statement; you see I “suffer” from (red/green) colorblindness, ergo I see this (and everything) differently than you/most of the world :) The colors have little to no affect/effect on me. And, being aware of this, I have to remind myself when making my own art that people will see it differently (and usually-“better”) than how I see it. I’m always surprised (and relieved) when their comments are positive and even more “insightful” then my own into my own art BTW: a little known fact; Michelangelo had the same colorblindness.
@@leonardodalongisland I have to admit I love everything I have ever seen by Van Gogh. Even his bad stuff was good, if you know what I mean. It is amazing that someone could be so talented and yet have such a sad life. He is one of my favorite painters, if not my favorite.
@@janeaparis He's my favorite-too. As far as having …”someone could be so talented and yet have such a sad life.” I (highly) recommended Creativity and Madness by Barry Panter. It exploers the lives of many artist, writers, etc and their “sad lives.” This “affliction” seems to be a constant in the lives of talent people. Not that I’m anywhere in the league of these people, but (they say) I’m a pretty talented artist/writer and I can assure you-I have a (terribly) sad life. Many artists I know suffer (from many maladies and other issues) as it seems creativity and madness (as the book says) go hand-in-hand. It’s lousy but (apparently) if they/we were happy and sane, most of the great art we know wouldn’t exist. I don’t know if my work will ever be worthy of gaining a spot in the next edition of C&M, but I know my life sure would
@@leonardodalongisland It is nice to meet you. I will check that out, when I have time. I have a strange life too. I have done some painting, but then I got sicker, and now it hurts to be creative (it is hard to be physical and I am mad about that), so instead I just study. I am actually excited about my next class, because it deals with trauma, and that is something I experience a lot. I am going to check your suggestion out, and I hope things get better for you. :)
@@janeaparis Nice to meet you as well. May I enquire as to what “Pains” you? And, would love to know more about/see your paintings. Good luck with the class-where do you take them?
That makes sense I was going to say the art he hated looks like he was painting while drunk.
Thats the point of this art
I truly am obsessed with his "Starry Night" piece. I have it as a blanket, license plate, steering wheel, and a few clothing pieces.
I dont understand the appeal of impressionist painting. It just makes look like a low resolution photo. It's not pleasant to look at all.
@@Laocoon283 That's when you look at them from too close. These paintings catch moments that convey the overall impression and atmosphere rather than details. (I do agree though that not all painters were good enough to not make this style look like a child's work in some cases.) The last art exhibition I went to in summer was an impressionist collection. It was beautiful, and - what's esp. appealing - it's easy to take the paintings in without it taking hours of looking.
@@misspeach3755 of that's interesting maybe instead of focusing on specifics parts too closely I just need to look at as a whole?
@@Laocoon283 What are you even talking about when are paintings high resolution?
@@cosmicabyss7358 Not literally. I just mean the impressionist stuff has this blurry kind of look that I describe as "low resolution".
Have you ever seen Loving Vincent? A movie animated in oil paint in his art style. It’s a visual masterpiece
If you like these type of movies, "The tragedy of Man" from 2011 is a movie for you (or by itself Marcell Jankovics works-)
I appreciate your channel Thank you for sharing your knowledge in art history ,you bring out different perspectives ;inspiring and useful
Thank you so much!
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Im trying to get my teacher to play these videos in class. Cause many of classmates aren't art majors. They just needed to take a history class. And I think art deco videos are just so informative but in a easy, and fun way. And I think it's important to look at art, it really is a peek into the world back then and the view of a historical figure. It's just great
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My favorite artist! 😊 When I was in high school, we had to do a painting in the style of an artist of our choosing. I stupidly chose Van Gogh because he’s my favorite. Let me tell you, the man was a crazy genius! I was having so much difficulty until my teacher pointed out that he rarely blended his colors. I ended up painting most of my painting with a palette knife, dipping it in several different colors and just slapping it on the canvas. It was quite the experience! That being said, you can see that in this painting as well. A lot of his colors aren’t mixed or are just haphazardly blorped onto the canvas. I’ve also noticed he had a habit of doing exactly what he did in this painting in a few others as well. His perspective is a bit skewed, as if he was drunk as a skunk when he painted them. This one in particular is the best example of that, I think. And I definitely agree that the colors make you feel unsettled. They’re too vibrant, too clashing, what they used to call nightmare colors. The people all look as if they’re in misery except for that creepy guy in white that’s staring at us. And those eyeball lamps… It gives one the feeling that you’re looking at purgatory’s waiting room… However, one thing I do love about his paintings that I incorporate in my own is that use of thick paint. It gives the painting depth, especially if you’re allowed to run your hand over it. So not only can you see the beautiful texture, you can feel it as well. He was way ahead of his time. And it’s usually the mentally ill ones who have the most genius. 😊
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You took the words right outta my mouth!! I just adore these!
Please please
Someone needs to write a book series, but each book is a character in a Van Gogh painting and their story, like how they ended up at that scene. Creating a character in each painting and setting the scene in that painting. E.g. this painting would be a book about a girl who lives in this city and works at the cafe everyday, then she meets Van Gogh who is painting this painting. Idk i think it would be cool 😅
You should write it. The idea is sound and you seem to have the spark to carry it through.
Yes! Great idea!
That would be amazing!
The only trouble would be making them all into a coherent story. That's a fun idea tho.
Most of his last portraits were local people in the Village so we know who they are.
Love your videos. I hadn't noticed the Cyclops eyes until you mentioned it, and once you have seen them you can't un-see them.
Interestingly, those “eyes” are the first things I noticed.
Never noticed the eyes either. When I saw the The Van Gogh exhibition in the 70's in San Francisco I felt like this was the greatest "Artist" that had ever lived and I still feel the same way today.
I don't know when it happened but somewhere along the way I started actively checking for your uploads. I'm not an artsy person really. I really don't know anything about classical arts but these videos are so informative and straight forward I don't feel too out of my element watching them. Sometimes I'm even the Leonardo DiCaprio meme pointing at the screen when I recognize a painting, lol! So, thanks for these videos. They're really awesome, they make me feel smart and cultured, and I really look forward to them even if I'm probably not the target audience. :)
Poor Vincent. 😢
Love your videos.
Thank you 😊 as always 💙
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
There is a song by The Doors called “People Are Strange.” This heart-rending painting by Van Gogh has always come to mind when I hear that song. I felt that this genius of a creator, isolated and tormented by so many things both natural and self-inflicted (including his loneliness) in-dwelt this song in some way. The painting silently screeches the glaring absence of hope and love and relationship. No wonder he hated it. It was a too harsh mirror.
Beginning lyrics:
People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone
Hearing you say Cafe Terrace at Night is one of the most beautiful paintings of all time fills me with glee! It's my favorite Van Gogh painting and my wallpaper ❤
The bar in the first painting still looks much like that today, it is still there and recognisable if you know the painting. The hospital garden at Arles is still there too and recognisable. I made a pilgrimage to Arles among many others of Vincent's painting locations. It. Is still possible to relate to many of them.
PS It also made and excellent theme for a lovely holiday in beautiful SW France and the unique Camargue.
I love your videos! And I would love to see videos on the paintings you use for reactions. I am doing a moodboard =)
When I saw his paintings in Amsterdam I was so amazed by how many colors were in each of his brush strokes. No matter how much they have been reproduced, when you see the real paintings they are so much more beautiful than the prints.
So true!
"But why would Van Gogh trash talk his own painting??"
Girlie have you ever met an artist?
When I look at this painting, I feel like I am quite drunk: the place is wobbling around me, and I cannot judge the distance correctly.
Great video, thank you!
The man in white was the owner of the cafe. Vincent had frequented the cafe and stayed o often that he told the man he would do a painting for him. Sadly, the sameman in white was one of the many townspeople who later signed a petition to have Vincent evicted from the yellow house in which he was staying. I actually really like this painting and have it a a large canvas hanging in my living room. Bt the way, did you notice that the man in white has no feet?
That's because the billiard table is covering them
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but Absinthe was not simply a strong alcohol. Absinthe was distilled with alcohol and Wormwood, a bitter narcotic plant.
I believe that the perspective of the painting may have something to do with that fact.
People who drank Absinthe, dropped slowly through a lump of sugar, sat inside a pierced teaspoon, into a glass of water below, were considered mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Thanks for your work, it's nice to have a platform to learn about, and discuss artworks.
Well done.
Thank you. I was hoping someone else wanted to inform other people about what Absinthe was back then and why it was so problematic.
@SeiichirouUta I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who knows or cares.
I've drunk modern Absinthe, but I'm absolutely sure it's *nothing* like the original! 😵
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"Narcotics" (an oft misused term) are drugs that put you to sleep. Think of the god Narcos. Absinthe, on the other hand, has hallucinogenic qualities, so is somewhat psychedelic. Just sayin'
I heard you say that the painting is not one of his best, but I kept looking at it thinking ... I'd want that on my wall. I like it a lot better than many of his paintings ...
You made me appreciate my least favorite Van Gogh piece with a new perspective! Thank you!
You forgot to mention that person in all white attire is representing the opposite to ,,working class,,. Back then only higher class could afford to wear all white. That being said, I believe Vincent put that white man there staring at him because that is a version of himself, who he could be if he loved and took care of himself more and better. That’s why he hated that painting. It presented his punishment.
His name is NOT van Goh, but van Goch, ending like Loch, you know like Loch Ness.
I learned so much from you! Thoroughly enjoy your Technique- very entertaining and informative.
This is my favorite channel. Thank you for taking the time to create these! Please, please, please do Pontormo's, The Desposition one day💕
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! It makes me so happy to know it's your favorite!! I will definitely look into that painting for a future video 🖼😊
The painting itself is not that bad, i really like the lamps and how he painted the light coming from them. But yeah, is kinda ugly compared to his most famous paintings, those are truly beautiful, i don't blame Vincent for hating it tough.
Everything appears to be melting, descending back into the primordial goo that gave birth to it. I am reminded of the last lines of James Joyce's "The Dead". Joyce was referring to snow; Van Gogh chose to use Light and Heat as oppressively bringing everything down and backwards---back to where it began, and where it belonged.
"A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
Reminds me of my 20s hanging out in dive bars. At 1 point I was a night prowler. Now I am in bed by 10 usually. Those were fun times but also times of despair. Lol
halos around the lamps seem to imply he may have had cateracts in his eyes.
Hey I really, really like your videos I truly think their some of the best on RUclips but maybe you could use a little less effects? I mean a littles good but too much and it's harder to enjoy the actuall piece. Your just focused on the effects. However again, your videosare amazing, keep it up!
They people in Arles thought he was from another world, too...
He quit drinking completely after his time in the sanitarium, turning down alcohol when with Dr. Gachet ("...the blind leading the blind" as he described that doctor's medical abilities).
I believe the current theory of porphyria fits, so well in fact that it amazes me how many symptoms were ignored by others in the past when medical and psychological conditions like epilepsy and schizophrenia were 'diagnosed'... The geenerations of family I ntermarriages, the high nunbe rifnother family members who had a milder version of his illness (eg his youngest sisternehonhad herself committed later in life and died in a sanitarium herself.)
Same goes for the ear... When Gauguin showed up in the yellow house, Van Gogh writes Theo of how volitile he is:" Good thing there are no machine guns around, if there were wed all be in big trouble" (the gatlin gun was used by the military by the ). Iow, Gauguin cut the ear off.
And, of course, the current theory that a teenager bully shot him. Not suicide...
midnightchannel Well to the people in Arles he literally was from another world. He was not from their town an not even from their country. He probably spoke French with a heavy Dutch accent and was a stranger and 'strange' to them in every way. He was widely seen there as 'that Dutch foreigner weirdo'. And he was always treated by the French people as an outcast who was not one of them and never would be.And Vincent cut off his ear. Go see the documentary The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear. The Gaugain story is completely made up and is bizarre and without even the siughtest proof. In fact there is only proof for the fact that Van Gogh cut his own ear clean of using a razor. If anything Gaugain was as shocked as anyone would be when he found Van Gogh the next morning.
I love visiting the Yale Art Museum mainly to see this painting but there's also many more beautiful pieces there including another less famous Van Gogh.
Some time ago, I read on line that this painting hung in Yale’s library.
There is an alternate timeline where he actually went to Japan and I am so angry I don't live in it.
Just sit there to contemplate it all after you come back because you're gonna see such
crazy and radical things in these trips. That when you come back you're gonna be like what the fuck was that? And you're gonna spend a week just in the shower, what the fuck was that? Cooking your food, what the fuck was that? Driving to work, what the fuck was that? Sitting at work doing your work, what the fuck was that? Thinking that. Trying to wrap your mind around it. Try to remember and trying to figure it out and that's a very valuable process.
I can understand why Van Gogh HATED this painting. It reminded him of his own STRUGGLES!!!! I CAN'T IMAGINE the Demons that Haunted him throughout his adult life. I pray that he is FINALLY at Peace with Our Lord.
Gaugin encouraged Van Gogh to use the cheapest paints he could find/make and his paintings are fading badly partly because of it. There are some sites showing what some of them would have looked like when they were painted. Even the iris and sunflowers were much brighter.
Yes, the cyclops eyes always freaked me out! I also see the outline of the door to the back as some kind of cloaked person, almost Grim Reaper..ish.
"Ven Go"? Where does that pronounciation come from? If only Americans could TRY to pronounce his name right ...
Not "Ven" but "Vahn".
Not "Go" but "Choch". Or if the guttural "Ch" sound is too difficult, at least "Gog".
I’m a simple man. I see Art Deco post a video, I watch the video.
I'm a simple woman. I see Christopher post an amazing comment, I reply and say thanks.
I hate it. It reminds me of my heavy alcoholic days, kidding myself that spending a night alone in a corner of a bar, people watching, was a good idea. I don’t blame him for hating this. Reality can be ugly.
Please, the pronounciation is not 'Van Go' but since he was a Dutch painter: the correct Dutch pronunciation is approximately “van goch” (pronounce the “ch” like a heavy, rasping coughing sound.
I look forward to your posts. Your insight is enlightening and presented in a very entertaining way. Thank you!
The colors look sick, like the colors themselves look ill. I know how that sounds but that's the only way I can describe it. I wouldn't want to hang out there.
Overanalyzing is not always the answer. Why are we so keen on getting into artists heads? Artists psyche is a mess like everyone else and they are expressing it in paintings, drawing and music because people can't handle truth, love and diversity. So, they are afraid to lose people near them, and at the same time they are scaring their surroundings away on purpose in order avoid being held responsible personally.
Down vote for saying it would make ME uncomfortable, when it didn't. I wonder why people use such titles.
Except for the rectangle in the outer room, there are really no bright colors in the room. The reds may be saturated but the greens are more like olive drab. Yes, quite unsettling. The apparent height of the painter may be the result of entering the room from the top of a few descending entry stairs. Hence, the attention given by the waiter or whoever the figure in white may be. "Oh, it's you again. Mr. absinthe nutcase. Another hellish night ahead."
Van Gogh was not only a romantic figure, the struggling artist. Most people are said to be repelled by him. He was actually unpleasant company, it seems. Only his patient brother and Dr. Gauchet could see the man within the curmudgeon.
Unpopular opinion: can people stop painting mental illness in Van Gogh as if it was some sort of special gift? I am sure he was very burdened by it and would definitely want to get rid of it if he could.
And there's a reason why the artist himself hated it, probably it wasn't a masterpiece.
Don't get me wrong, i like Vincent's work as anyone else but this painting is not a masterpiece.
What about the man in white having no legs, and the Freudian issues around the billiard balls and cue pointed towards the back room? (Not my theory - Read about it in a book on Van Gogh years ago.) He might have even painted himself into it - the guy in the yellow hat on the right.
The night cafe was always my favourite Van Gogh. I first saw it just after I'd been to Amsterdam and I'd been in little bars and cafes that felt just like it. The cafe terrace at night while beautiful is like something you'd see on a wall in a hotel room whereas the night cafe is a painting that is looking at you and saying "here you go, what do you think of this?". In my case it looked and felt very familiar.
I think Van Gogh was color blind and he saw this as beautiful and no one probably knows that because he never told anyone
To my eye, the painting draws attention to the door at the rear of the cafe. I wonder if the vanishing point where all horizontal line converge is back there somewhere. What's behind the door? A way out? Or something else? This question is unanswerable. We can't see. There's always more than meets the eye or than is apparent.
Years ago, an art expert speculated that the large amount of absinth he was drinking was affection his color perception..hence the yellows, reds and intense oranges in this scene. I wonder if this theory was found to have any merit.
I went to the Van Gogh exhibit in Detroit a couple of weeks ago. It will continue until Jan 22nd. Well worth a special trip.
I would liked to have drinks with Vincent Van Gogh and Edgar Allen Poe with the three of us sitting at the same table.
The way how you pronounce his name is a pain in the ears. Good video.
How else is it pronounced
You didn't pronounce his last name correctly, the secret is to sound like you're choking and swearing at the same time
What do you think of the theory that VG didn’t cut off his ear but that a drunken crazed friend did it. And that VG covered this up to protect his friend?
Thanks for this video!
Vincent van Gogh ist one of my favorite painters. A fabulous museum to view many of (not only) his paintings is the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands.
Such a poor script and editing, I'll just read about the painting instead.
Pronounce Van Gogh correctly and I'll watch the rest of your video
Well I feel like he absolutely nailed his intended purpose for that painting...
Its Van GOKH and NOT Van Go!!! Show some respect!
Honestly it is a quite unsettling piece while looking at it something just feels off...
We flew down to LA from SF Bay Area when the Van Gogh exhibition was there. An entire collection of his paintings that usually were in a museum/gallery in Denmark I believe? Anyway, his paintings are very intense. They literally vibrate due to the colors & impasto brush strokes. I hihly recommend seeing them in person.
In Houston, there was a master's of the MET exhibit. One of our very favorite paintings there was Van Gogh's White Roses. A print of it could never show the subtle but bright colors throughout the painting. Wow!!!! We went back to see the painting a couple of times before leaving the large exhibit. I bought a postcard of it that is not as powerful, but it has been on my fridge for several years as a reminder of the original beauty of the painting. 💗🎨🖼🌝
You mean the one at the LA County in 1999? Drove down from Salinas to see that.
yensid Van Gogh was Dutch not Danish. So you probably saw a collection from one of the museums of Van Goghs home country: The Netherlands. Most of his works can be seen there. As far as I know there is no collection of paintings by Van Gogh in Denmark (?) worth travelling the globe tot San Fransisco...
Can you review the Dido and Elizabeth painting? I just learned about their story and I would love to hear your take on their story and the painting itself
" "Vincent Van Gogh, one of the Dutch painters, could not sell a single painting in his whole life. Now only two hundred paintings have survived out of thousands that he painted, because nobody took care of them. He was simply distributing them to friends; nobody would purchase them. People were afraid even to hang his paintings in their sitting rooms because whoever would see them would think that they were crazy: what kind of painting are you hanging here? People were taking them - not to hurt him - thanking him, and throwing his paintings into their basements so nobody would see. Now each of his paintings is worth a million dollars. What happened in one hundred years? The man himself was forced into a mad asylum when he was only thirty-two. And he was forced because of his painting - he was not harmful, he was not violent, he was not doing anything to anybody. But anybody who looked at his paintings was absolutely certain that this man was mad and unreliable. He should be put in a madhouse. If he could paint these things, he might do anything….” For example, he always painted stars as spirals. Even other painters told him, “Stars are not spirals!”
He said, “I also see the stars. I see that they are not spirals, but the moment I start painting them something in me says so strongly that they are spirals. The distance is so vast… that’s why your eyes cannot see exactly what their shape is. And the voice is so strong. I am simply unable to do anything else but what my inner being says to do.”
And now physicists have discovered that stars are spirals. It has gone like a shock throughout the world of painters, that only one painter in the whole history of man had some inner contact and communication with the stars - and that was a man who was thought to be mad. And because he was thought to be mad, nobody was ready to give him any service. Every week, his brother used to give him enough money to last for seven days. And he was fasting three days in a week and eating four days - because that was the only way to purchase canvas and colors and brushes to paint. Painting was more important than life. He committed suicide at the age of thirty -three. Just after his release from the madhouse, he painted only one painting, which they had prevented him from painting in the madhouse. He wanted to paint the sun. It took him one year. He lost his eyes… the burning sun, the hot sun, and the whole day long he would be watching all the colors, from the morning till the evening, from the sunrise to the sunset. He wanted the painting to contain everything about the sun, the whole biography of the sun. Everybody who was sympathetic to him told him, “This is too much. Just studying it one day is enough; it is the same sun.”
Van Gogh said, “You don’t know. It is never the same. You have never looked at it. I have never seen the same sunrise twice, never seen the same sunset again. And I want my painting to be a biography.” One year… the whole day watching the sun… He lost his eyes, but he painted. And when the painting was complete, he wrote a small letter to his brother: “I am not committing suicide out of any despair - because I am one of the most successful men in the world. I have done whatever I wanted to do in spite of the whole world condemning me. But this was my last wish, to paint the whole biography of the sun in one painting. It is completed today. I am immensely joyful, and now there is no need to live. I was living to paint; painting was my life, not breathing.” And he shot himself dead. You cannot categorize him with ordinary suicides. It is not a suicide - out of despair, out of sadness, out of failure - no. Out of immense success, out of total fulfillment, seeing that now, why unnecessarily go on living and waiting for death?… “I have done the work that I wanted to do.” Every creative artist has to understand this: the moment people start thinking about him that he is a little bit off center, that something is loose in his head, he should rejoice that he has crossed the boundary of the mundane and the mediocre. Now he has grown the wings which others don’t have."
Physicists have discovered that stars are spirals??
Pretty sure that's one of my kid's third grade paintings. 😂 I do like most of his work though.
The painting just screams 'Despair' ... and I do believe van Gogh's is the warped 'perspective', bleary eyed, alienated, probably under the influence and a bit paranoid, and sitting in the corner of that room; as isolated and lost as the other souls in the painting.
I was fortunate enough to see 'Starry Night Over the Rhône' in person, when a large collection of Impressionist works were on loan from the Musee d'Orsay while it was being renovated (MANY years ago.) I just kept going back to it; it was gorgeous, compelling, and just had a grip on me. It's the only van Gogh I've seen 'in person' so I would never underestimate the sheer magnetism of any of his work.
(There was one other painting that just stayed with me - I think it was a Bernaud, but I just can't find the right one. The way he lit the painting - from 'another room' in the work, somehow throwing light around a corner? Just blew me away. Literally just the lighting of it ... could not get my head around it ...)
Sorry, bit of a tangent, but that Night painting and the 2nd one I described will be forever linked in my mind as EXPERIENCES, not 'just' paint on canvas.
I guess van Gogh can do that to you.
Original absinthe wasn't just dangerous for its alcohol content, it also contained wormwood. It can cause dizziness, seizures, hallucinations, and psychosis. It was also called the Green Fairy.
was even illegal in the US for awhile
I trashtalk my own paintings all the time, but then I am not a Van Gogh.
Why do people seem unable to pronounce van Gogh's name?
Just the title alone made me say to myself "Well, won't be difficult since all of his paintings do that.". One thing I noticed and maybe my mind is just making it up, the outline of the doorway to the back room kind of fools the eye and looks like the outline of the Virgin Mary. Pair that with the light shining brighter on the other side of the doorway, and maybe it's a hint that he knew the place was detrimental to his health.
The first thing I notice is the pool table perspective is off, it should be more foreshortened. I can see why he might not like it but it’s also fun to explore
I love ur vids, ur hilarious while im also learning something
i dont like all the little edits and sound effects. way too distracting.
I can understand why Van Gogh didn’t like the painting but personally I love it!
I really like this narrator’s voice.
he was probably painting himself in a drunken, hunched over fog
The most disturbing thing about this video is your voice.
I can't call anything by Vincent anything but beautiful, if I could meet anyone alive or passed it would be him every time. Genius and unique. I honestly just love him ❤️
I kind of reminds me of CGA graphics of the 1980's. Yes it's color but it's all rather frustrating
Ahhh I hate you said the lamps look like eyes all I see is that now!
I love this painting. I have a print hanging on my wall. It’s always seemed weird and familiar. I had no idea he hated it.
How it's uncomfortable?
I think you are reading far too much into this.
Just about anything you can imagine can be said about any painting!
Even the billiard table looks drunk.
Excellent video again! You are one of my favorite channels. Thanks 👍😊
Fun Fact: White oil paint is just Lead Filled Toothpaste back then, seeping into the skin and causing neurological damage, and in my opinion, probably the catalyst to him whacking off his ear in the name of love.
Yay 😁
Very nice analysis! Much art criticism is tired cliché, but you have obviously done your homework, and do a wonderful job of providing context.