Formal Analysis Essay

For the Formal Analysis Essay, I have chosen the artwork of Vincent van Gogh to discuss: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), The Night Café, 1888, oil on canvas, approximately dimensions 70.0 x 89.0 cm, describing the Le café de nuit in France. The subject of Vincent van Gogh’s The Night Café is to express the loneliness and desperation, he tried to express the idea that how a darkness place can make someone go mad or go commit a crime. The drinkers and the standalone person or known as the owner of the café name Joseph-Michel Ginoux standing behind the pool table and with the skewed perspective and stark coloring created a disturbing work. The theme for this artwork is Art and the Passage of Time. Everywhere is the contrast between reds

The artist also used the skewed perspective and stark coloring to create a jarring and disturbing work. Van Gogh used the whole canvas for the room of the café, he used the pool table to filled up the biggest space in the middle of the room, the café tables are surrounding the pool table to make up all the gap from the poll table to the wall. Van Gogh used the red blood color for the wall to create a dark and a sad environment inside a café shop and he used the light yellow color for the light to describe the contrast between the reds and the greens to come up with an idea that when you are sitting in this café at the late hour, there may be something wrong with your life. The focus point on this painting is the lonely person in the white clothes even then you take your eyes off the painting then turn and look at it again, the guy in the white clothes will first appear to your eyes. When you look at the painting the only movement in it you can come up in your mind is the guy in white clothes is standing up and leaving the café shop, it could be he is tired from a long day work or he finally figured out what is he doing this late the café shop at this hour, other people in the room seem like they are drunk and sleeping on the