jan 22, 1888 - Van Gogh - "The All-Night afe at Arles"

Description:

“In my painting of the All-Night Café I've tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese green against the yellow-green and stark blue-green tones – all this in an atmosphere like the devil’s inferno and pale sulphurousyellow… I’ve tried to convey the sinister power of such a place.”