@realityjunky
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?
@asiahthomas-mandlman2280
This is my favorite channel. Thank you for taking the time to create these! Please, please, please do Pontormo's, The Desposition one day💕
@micheleparker3780
I love these so much I can't get enough of them - DO MORE!!!🥰
@ellenpayson3104
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
@bjones2600
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. :)
@philiptownsend4026
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.
@KarlBunker
Poor Vincent. 😢 Love your videos.
@GabeWilliams
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
@Dallas-Nyberg
I'm an artist/painter... it never ceases to amaze/amuse me, when I hear people analyzing my paintings.. Nine times out of ten, they are not even close to correctly summarizing what I did or how I achieved it. However, I do not endeavor to correct them. If, at the end of it all, they like my subject choice and the overall end result, I'm happy. :body-blue-raised-arms:
@wge621
As always, these analyses are so beautifully done. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
@ardalla535
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."
@vanhouten64
The most amazing thing about this great painting is the glow lines encircling the lights hanging from the ceiling ('glow lines' is a term i just made up). This is my favorite Van Gogh.
@aliceshaw2011
Oh wow. I’m learning a lot from your videos. Wish I could go to a museum with you. Just looking at the tiny details is so fun. Sad in this case. The big, central vase of roses seems out of place. And it looks like faces are in there among the blossoms. I did see the big eyes before you spoke of them. I was so proud! Thank you.
@VaryaEQ
Well I feel like he absolutely nailed his intended purpose for that painting...
@andrewdewar8159
Even the billiard table looks drunk.
@donatella302
I just found you’re channel and so far love it. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists. I know The Night Cafe is considered to be a depressing piece, but it has the opposite affect on me as it looks so much like a bar my friends and I used to hang out in many years ago when we were in college. It was a grungy looking place, with the same colors and a pool table in the middle and the seating around the walls. But there were a lot of good times there. I look forward to binge watching more of your videos.
@madahab64
This painting is at the Yale Museum of Art. It's my favourite piece in the museum and try to find it on any visit. It's one thing to see a painting on a page and it's something else to be present before it. I love to look at the thick swirls of paint that make it look as if it were painted recently. It looks as if you could walk into the cafe, sit down, order a drink, and engage in talk about art. Despite he dislike of the painting it's among my favourite. I read that Van Gogh might have had had epilepsy which some theorize might have contributed to the way he painted with bright and vivid colours that swirled and gave the finished work an otherworldly quality. This is what draws me to Van Gogh over other painters of that period. He seems to what he paintings to come to life, for good or ill in some cases. I love those stark contrasts of colours. He was a sad and fascinating character.
@shelleymarquis2887
This painting always reminds me of the feeling (rather than the seeing)I had as a little girl walking into my mother's kitchen any morning from 3 yrs old to 9 yrs old after her "nightlife" with drinking buddies, all men. She wasn't sexually promiscuous. She was an attention junkie and because she didnt like or respect men she knew how to manipulate them. So, this painting is part of my life's stage backdrop painted before are 7. I think were stuck with raw data until our teeny tiny brains learn the art of rationalization. Just me, of course. I love your dissections of great art. Way better than art appreciation I was taught in school. You are a treasure! Keep it up!❤️💃🏻
@EKA201-j7f
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.
@Art_Deco