Vincent Van Gogh Fine Art Print, Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles
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Vincent Van Gogh Fine Art Print, Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles
Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum - Background
"Café Terrace at Night," also known as "The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum," is a vibrant oil painting created by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in mid-September 1888, during his time in Arles, France. This masterpiece, executed on a canvas, is a striking representation of a nocturnal scene. Although the artwork lacks a visible signature, Van Gogh made numerous references to it in his letters.
To this day, visitors can stand at the northeastern corner of the Place du Forum, where Van Gogh once positioned his easel. From this vantage point, he gazed southward, capturing the warmly illuminated terrace of a popular coffeehouse. He also depicted the contrasting darkness of the rue du Palais extending towards the left, hidden from view, and, further beyond, the tower of a former church, now the Musée Lapidaire. On the right side of the painting, Van Gogh included a well-lit shop and glimpses of the surrounding trees, but he chose not to depict the adjacent Roman monuments.
This remarkable painting currently resides in the Kröller-Müller Museum located in Otterlo, Netherlands. After completing "Café Terrace at Night," Van Gogh expressed his enthusiasm in a letter to his sister. He described the scene as follows: "I was only interrupted by my work on a new painting representing the exterior of a night café. On the terrace, small figures of people can be seen enjoying their drinks. An enormous yellow lantern bathes the terrace, the façade, the sidewalk, and even the cobblestones of the road in a pinkish-violet hue. The house gables, resembling a fading road beneath a blue sky adorned with stars, are rendered in dark blue or violet, interspersed with green trees. Here, in this nighttime portrayal, you won't find any black; instead, it's a tapestry of beautiful blues, violets, and greens. Within this illuminated realm, colors manifest in shades of sulfur pale yellow and citron green. Painting the night scene directly on location greatly amuses me. Typically, one sketches and paints during the daytime, but I prefer to capture the essence immediately. It's true that in the darkness, I may mistake a blue for a green or a blue lilac for a pink lilac, as it's challenging to discern the exact tones. However, this approach allows me to break free from the conventional portrayal of night with its feeble, pale, whitish light. Even a simple candle already offers us the richest yellows and oranges."
Vincent Van Gogh - Artist
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept a long correspondence by letter. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886, he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. His paintings grew brighter in colour as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the south of France in 1888. During this period he broadened his subject matter to include series of olive trees, wheat fields and sunflowers.
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when, in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. His depression continued and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a Lefaucheux revolver. He died from his injuries two days later.
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist. Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
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