Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Van Gogh, The Night Café


            This piece of art is so interesting to me. This did such a good job of capturing Gogh’s mental state.  He knows the law of simultaneous contrast, Red and Green, and uses it in this piece. I love it because it is like looing through the eys of someone else. He paints exactly how he sees the Café. He made the lamps look like eyes, feeling as though everyone was always watching him. For Gogh this was a terrifying place, everything affected him so much more than it affected anyone else because his mental state. He thought that he could just freak out and kill someone randomly, for he had a high level of anxiety. Its very interesting because he thought everyone thought like that.
            Composer Tchaikovsky started to write romance songs about  Désirée Artôt
After meeting her in Berlin. I like the fact that theses songs were straight love letters to her. He wrote them as their romance and like Gogh, he wrote what he was feeling through his songs, just like Gogh wrote what he saw and felt through his artwork.
            Gogh didn’t intend to paint to let others know what he was feeling, he just assumed that everyone felt that way and that’s what I love about his art. It takes you into a different world looking through someone else’s eyes.

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