cafe terrace at night vincent van gogh

cafe terrace at night vincent van goghThis was the first painting in which Vincent Van Gogh depicted a starry sky, which is later seen in Starry Night on the Rhone, painted the same month, and Starry Night, a year later. In this work, the artist seeks to capture the nocturnal atmosphere of a small square in a Provenal town, Arles. He wants to show a night with vivid colors and perhaps, he says, sometimes mistaking the exact tone. Want to buy another Vincent Van Gogh painting? Discover all

The entire composition

also a painter

This work by Johannes Vermeer has been the subject of numerous studies over the last few centuries concerning the place of science

It is common for the artist to centre his works around a particular colour

Claude Monet lived in Etretat for a few years to work on a number of paintings of the cliffs and the sea

The perspective culminates here in a remote vanishing point

Although it is fascinating to decipher the symbols

which could be mistaken for peaches

Through the color

The following year he made this painting from a drawing that is also in the collection of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum

standing out with its warm hues and sharpness

It creates a contrasted relationship with the geometrical multicolor elements and abstraction