The Night Cafe

Although Vincent had earned the respect of the Paris avant-garde by the time he left, the pace of city life adversely effected his delicate psychological condition, and he preferred to work alone in any case. Leaving Paris and the influence of the Impressionist and neo-Impressionist avant-garde allowed him to develop his own singular style of heavy, modeled, rhythmic brushwork and distinctive color. He believed "the painter of the future will be a colorist such as …

…is an excellent example of the way he used color and brushwork to capture the passionate emotions he wished to convey. My opinion of this masterpiece is that it reminds me of the Maynard Café. In the Maynard Café, There is always a bunch of elderly men who have nothing better to do than sit around and shoot the breeze. Van Gogh was poor and therefore had nothing either, except for his gift of art.