"What About Art?" Goes on Holiday
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 9:38PM 
Vincent van Gogh - The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Oil on Canvas - 80.7 cm × 65.3 cm (31.8 in × 25.7 in) - Arles, France: September, 1888 - Kröller-Müller Museum - Otterlo, The Netherlands, Europe (click photo for larger image)The team at What About Art? needs a vacation! So, we’ll be taking a break and begin posting again on August 15th. While we’re away, enjoy examining Vincent van Gogh’s lovely Café Terrace. Vincent (1853-1890) was enthusiastic about this charming work, particularly because he was fascinated by painting night scenes. He wrote the following to his sister about it:
“I was only interrupted by my work on a new painting representing the exterior of a night café. On the terrace there are small figures of people drinking. An immense yellow lantern illuminates the terrace, the facade, the side walk and even casts light on the paving stones of the road which take a pinkish violet tone. The gables of the houses, like a fading road below a blue sky studded with stars, are dark blue or violet with a green tree. Here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colours itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot....”
We’ll see you all soon...
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Hello All - Good to see you here! FYI--Due to professional and personal demands, we'll be extending our vacation until September 1st. We'll usher in the Fall with you on that date--so please do come back! Thanks for your support. - Jill