I love night cafe. I don't think it's ugly the way we're taught in school, I think it's ugly in the way it feels. It's an ugly atmosphere, but a beautiful painting of that ugliness. If that makes sense.
Yeah, it's not at all ugly in a "eeew, that's a shitty painting" way. It's just depicting something dark. it's beautiful in the same way that a Dostoevsky novel is beautiful, even when it's depicting some of the harshest, ugliest aspects of human experience.
It's my favorite Van Gogh for exactly that reason. His happier paintings feel forced to me. This is a punch straight to the gut. It's amazing in person.
i was just noticing this on this rewatch too! i think we're kind of drawn to the lamps, with the steady line of them, their emitting light, maybe there's something about perspective and lines here too. whatever it is, the three lights are giving off that skeezy yellow, and all three are looking right at you, the viewer, almost highlighting the gaze we feel but cannot see from the bartender. even as all the other patrons look away, absorbed in their drink, the bartender and the eye's of his bar stare right at us. let's just say i can feel my social anxiety just looking at this one.
Liar of Lesbos precisely, i think of the room as one giant flesh like alien entity embodying substance abuse anxiety depression looking upon its prey that it swallowed, slowly digesting them with its acidic gaze and melting their consiousnesses into the walls and furniture thus creating aboiling pit of despair that you the viewer are hopelessly trapped in.
@@DeadlyLazer No, by all means. It's an interesting comment. It caught my eye because I'm french and I knew that. But I still had to search for the english name of that game. So you know... Sorry if I came across as an arrogant french.
I would also highly recommend 'At Eternity's Gate'. It took me a bit to understand just what Schnabel was doing, but once I got that the film was not a 'bio-pic', but was a meditation as seen through Vincent's eyes, I was blown away. (And Willem Dafoe was robbed at the Oscars.)
If you want a bit of a Fiction twist on his story that's still based on true facts the Doctor who episode is really good. Really helped me appreciate who Vincent would've been like as a person :)
If you liked the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam I can’t recommend the Kröller-Müller museum enough. It’s maybe an hour or so outside the city. They have the second largest collection of Van Goghs in the world, including some of my personal favorites, and crowds a tenth the size of Amsterdam. Plus you’ll get to find yourself in the gorgeous countryside in their outdoor sculpture gardens.
This painting hangs in the Yale art gallery, anyone can view it free of charge. Don't forget to ask for the headphones, you can type a code into them displayed on some of the art. Van Gogh gave this painting to the man in the white jacket, he owned the bar and the apartment above it which Van Gogh lived in.
_The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour._ *~Vincent Van Gogh*
THIS was brilliantly explained. I cannot begin to thank you for sharing this video. Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters, and this added so much more information for me as I learn about art. Thank you!
There’s a madness to his paintings that is visceral. The lack of literally mixing the colours gives it a manic quality that can be either jarring or soothing depending on his colour theory within a given painting
@@JotechLung that is the play on words that the video uses as it's premise, yes. the painting IS ugly, it is visually unpleasant to look at, and the video explains why and how it is artistically effective and how the juxtaposition is interesting and insightful.
@@JotechLung youre implying the painting isn't ugly but the stick man is, as if effort or visual coherence displays quality. That's true, which is why this painting is ugly, it intentionally lacks fundamental visual coherence, such as perspective and shadows. Your logic is inconsistent.
Not only did I love the analysis of the painting, but the effects in the video, particularly when the colors gradually appear from red, to green, to yellow and then the rest were absolutely spectacular. Great job as always!
It’s incredibly heart breaking. On his death bed he glanced at his brother and said I want to go home. I think he said that because he was incoherent and wanted to see his father. He never got to see his father before his death
This night café reminds me of the cafés I went to alone or with my friends when I was a student. I actually find it almost comforting. I remember the heat, the drunk old guys, the loneliness, the beer smell. It sounds sad but I don't know why... I liked these moments and I still do like remembering them. I felt real darkness there some days, real friendship other days. It inspired me to put real raw emotions into my music and drawing.
I find it cozy, it remi ds me of the cafes I went to to play billiards, they had old men hunched and a backroom where people played dominoes, the one I went most times actually had green and red walls and that yellowy lighting only interrupted by the colder light avove the billiard table. Nostalgia can make anything beautiful and expressed by a master like van Gogh makes its job easier.
Red/green color combinations are FASCINATING to me. It's really interesting that red/green became the dominant color theme of Xmas, especially because the two are so brash next to each other. It's almost like we all decided as a culture that CHRISTMAS MUST BE AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE. Keep up the great work my friend!
However, the combo is usually mellowed out with a lot of white, invariably if you live somewhere it snows, plus stories about Santa Claus and Jesus both typically bring in white. There's often many other colors in adition when it comes to decorations, gold in particular is a common Xmas colour, and brings some class even if it's no less loud. But yeah, it's really interesting how each holiday seems to have it's unique preset colour scheme.
This has always been my favorite van gogh, and thus one of my favorite paintings and have seen it In person a good dozen times, I never thought of it as conventionally 'ugly' before which is odd. I've always thought it was beautiful but I see it now
Nerdwriter1 has some of the highest quality video essays on the internet. The editing, production quality, analysis, and visual presentation of research are all so crisp, beautiful, and easily understandable. It's a shame and a miracle that these videos come out once a month. The artistic education i've gotten out of Nerdwriter videos is absolutely amazing.
This is a realistic example of what a social bustling setting looks like when you look at it from sober eyes (even tho VG was probably not sober) looking at something from the distance of loneliness and mental illness. He may have been depicting the setting itself objectively, but it feels more like he is depicting through his on eyes which are tinged with this deep separation from the people around him even though he was right next to them. Maybe that’s why it feels and looks ugly. He felt connected in nature, so there is a love attached to it, there is a sense of oneness. When he is inside, it’s almost like it was synthetic to him, like walking into the matrix. It’s sad but honestly weirdly relatable. One of my favorite songs is the Nirvana song “Dumb” - when you’re mentally ill you can either pretend to fit in in settings like this, or you can see the truth of the experience which is lonely and sad.
I'm just seeing this painting for the first time and the feeling of anxiety and sorrow is quickly noticeable in the surroundings, reminds me of times I've sat alone in cafes and bars like this. It's an uneasy feeling, yet it somehow feels attractive as well.
I kind of like it. The colors are nice and the large shadow is intriguing big and silent. The focus, the man is off centered and facelessly staring at you, like he’s greeting/acknowledging you. And there’s pink flowers in the back. A very calm and quiet painting.
This is my favourite Van Gogh. I’ve been fortunate enough to see it “in the flesh” twice. It stopped me in my track, I felt I could hear him urging me “look, look! “. I read that he once wrote that if he painted a tree, he didn’t want people to see a tree, he wanted them to feel it. I certainly feel him in this painting. I could write a page about what I get out of it.
I love Van Gogh so much. I’ve only seen one of his paintings in person and I stared into it for about 20 minutes before a line began to form behind at which point I went to the back of the line so I could look a second time. Thank you for the video.
I mean, I'm from the UK so I pronounce it Van Goff, let me tell you, you wouldn't want to hear us trying to pronounce it like "fenn hkhorcgh" or however it's really pronounced in dutch every time. That would be a lot more painful...and pretentious as hell.
Has anyone compared this painting to the "Liminal Spaces" effect. Cus this painting feels a bit liminal. "The Cafe Terrace at night" and "Night Cafe" are honestly my two favorite paintings from Van Gogh, I know everyone is always talking about "Starry Night" or his "Sunflowers" painting but these two are my favorite and I'm really not sure why too. Night Cafe for me is like in the same vain of why I like Hopper's Nighthawks. There's just something about those paintings that I can't explain the feeling but they make me feel in the moment if that makes sense.
Night cafe is a painting that has you continually glancing at the doorway, unable to move towards it because of the hypnotic claustrophobic feel of the rest of the scene. The awareness that something is wrong, and you need to leave. The walls are closing in, the drugs are taking hold, the depression has mutilated you. There is no escape from our own fears and anxieties.
It is claustrophobic and oppressive but incredibly compelling. The lighting reminds me of what I feel under harsh indoor florescent lighting where everything seems yellowed. I am an artist as well and Van Gogh is my favorite painter. He painted from the heart. I am in awe.
my mom had a replica of this in our living room and when I was little I remember only being able to recognize the single man. the rest was just jumbled garbage in my toddler eyes. beautiful art now that I look at it and I feel kinda connected to the painting in a way
In Dutch, which was his native tongue, it is pronounced 'van Gogh' with two raw, guttoral g's. It is very hard to pronounce for someone who does not speak Dutch, even though it looks simple.
his work is so amazing because he suffered so much, through his suffering came such amazing beauty which he left behind and the world will forever be amazed and thankful loving Vincent.
I grew up with this painting at my local museum (Yale Art Gallery) and it has always been my favorite in their collection. Whether it was ugly or not never occurred to me. Today I see the dichotomy of beauty vs ugly to be a trick being played on us to keep us in line. Most of the art/movies/stories/dance/music I love and find most meaningful is that which is often deemed to be "ugly".
I think this analysis also fits well with the aesthetic of neo-noir cinema, especially the colour schemes of movies like Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver or Fight Club
for me it kinda feels like i see it through a fish eye lens, because it has that warped effect... makes it feel like it’s seen through a surveillance camera but that is probably just me. I get what you mean though, it also feels like the white man is staring at me
this painting makes me think of that moment before panic or a breakdown when you feel utterly alone even in a room with others and drowning in yourself because no one can pull you out of you. it's ugly in that feeling it reminds you of, of dark moments that are never pretty and certainly don't feel pretty to go through, but beautiful in every stroke and the wonderful way he got the message across.
this is one of my favorite videos. the way you combine narration, sound design, and graphics to create a compelling story about complex material like this is incredible. please keep doing it.
There's something about the way the lights are painted as well. They look like tired sad eyes that constantly watch your every move. A lingering feeling that as you see everyone else ruin themselves through the night, they are also watching you. They are casting a light on the way you ruin yourself.
After "the incident" Van Gogh's friends used to asked him, Vince, you are such a beautiful man, why did you cut your ear?! And you know what Van Gogh told them? -"WHAT?" edit: capitalization;)
Great video, but there are some common mistakes when it comes to the color wheel and secondary colors. The three primary colors are those that can't be made mixing by any other colors, they are cyan, yellow and magenta (not red). Secondary colors are the combinations of two primary colors: purple, green and red. Complementary colors are pairs of colors that are opposite on the color wheel, the complementary of a primary color is always a secondary color formed by the two other primary colors, they are: magenta-green, yellow-purple and cyan-red. Different tones of reds are complementary to different tones of blue, the more a red leans towards magenta (such as a raspberry color), the more its complementary blue will lean towards green (like a turquoise), but it won't be actual green. Hope this helps someone, there's a lot of misinformation when it comes to basic color theory
Thanks, that's interesting ;) Do you know what he says in 4:17? I mean, I can't understand the name of that color and I try to translate it into Polish c:
“Ugliest” dude have you even seen the details like I can’t even draw a glass of water and Vincent Van Gogh paints a café that looks a bit creepy and then it’s considered “ugly” 😂
The word ugly in this context refers to the ugly side of the world the picture is depicting. In my native language the word ugly can be used to describe someone who acts mean. Ugly doesn't only refer to beauty on the outside, but also the inside. And the inside of this piece is ugly.
Van gogh often painted very fast and honestly i feel that. It’s such a nice feeling creating something you like by forgetting about what you want the end product to be like.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the bartender just standing there, staring into the viewers' souls. The only painting of his that I genuinely can't look at for very long..
@@weirdguy4948 nah, I have a book of his paintings, I studied it last year, and this is one of my least favorites. I clicked on this video because I knew this painting already, and I've seen critics call it ugly before, and I agreed, so I wanted to see where the masterpiece part of the title came in.
Seeing this at the Yale museum is a stunning experience. Seeing the blobs of paint it looks alive and gives the impression that it was just painted. It is not neat and polite but rude and alive. It is a remarkable painting and among my favourites of van Gogh.
This painting screams✨ Sad , Loneliness and Depression✨. while looking to this painting it feels like you're inside of this cafe and trapped , what an eerie feeling 💀
subconsciously i wished the doorway at this painting led outside at starry night at first glance.. then your explanation made sense why i felt that way.
The Van Gogh Museum is well worth a visit. You'll be blown away by the vibrancy of the paintings and the actual thickness of the paint on the canvass. I couldn't believe it.
*complementary. Not complimentary. Common mistake but they two different meanings. Complimentary is something that comes for free whereas complementary is when two things complement each other.
Van Gogh was a childhood idol of mine. I loved his work from the first time I saw it, and reproduced a select number of works in aquarel when I was 11. It was only when I reached adult phase though that then significance and uniqueness of his works really dawned on me, especially the contrasting colors and the oftentimes strange perspectives. The story of the man was a sad one however, and I wish he would have got the recognition he deserves, which unfotunarely only was reached post mortem. There are few artist who compare to his unique style, but I for one loved his breakaway from traditional art contemporaries and the way he, stubbornly believed in his own work. He was determined, devoted, and had a very peculiar relationship with nature, space and shapes. His work keeps on inspiring me. Great video!
Like two years ago I didn’t know who Van Gogh was then I moved to the Netherlands and in art class I saw his painting didn’t think much of it but really loved it then I started to research about him and watched I think 2 movies about him and fell in love with his art late last year I went to the kroller muller museum I cried after seeing his paintings they just speak to me somehow I sew the world in a different light because of is paintings I really love Van Gogh and his paintings💜❤️
I love night cafe. I don't think it's ugly the way we're taught in school, I think it's ugly in the way it feels. It's an ugly atmosphere, but a beautiful painting of that ugliness. If that makes sense.
Yeah, it's not at all ugly in a "eeew, that's a shitty painting" way. It's just depicting something dark. it's beautiful in the same way that a Dostoevsky novel is beautiful, even when it's depicting some of the harshest, ugliest aspects of human experience.
What do you learn in school lol
It's kind of like how music can be "ugly". It's not that it sounds bad, but it sounds so hurt and suffered that it's beautiful.
Go tell Van Gogh😂
@Juan Perez I come here to escape politics and not talk about it for once ...
"Ugliest masterpiece" is what I call my art everytime
try again😁😁
@@johannfer7073 Haha yes I'm trying :')
I forgot I made this comment
I wouldn't even call any of my art a masterpiece
Universal feeling
I think ive seen you before..
This painting is incredible. Staring at it for too much time makes me feel trapped and my breath starts to be shorter...so weird and amazing
So true i felt like i had my asthma attack early
@@cait2123.
Amen
It's my favorite Van Gogh for exactly that reason. His happier paintings feel forced to me. This is a punch straight to the gut. It's amazing in person.
Stendhal syndrome.
true. i felt chills.
So basically, this was the first cursed image
Not really. You know who created it, when and under what circumstances this painting was created, and what is depicted in it.
Whoa when I like this comment it goes from 1.1 to 1.2
No it was actually ooga booga’s carving in the 3rd cave of the anchient rome
No, curses are not real.
@@eekns It's a joke.
The overhead lamps in this painting look like eyes
Came here to say this
Drunken eyes
i was just noticing this on this rewatch too! i think we're kind of drawn to the lamps, with the steady line of them, their emitting light, maybe there's something about perspective and lines here too. whatever it is, the three lights are giving off that skeezy yellow, and all three are looking right at you, the viewer, almost highlighting the gaze we feel but cannot see from the bartender. even as all the other patrons look away, absorbed in their drink, the bartender and the eye's of his bar stare right at us. let's just say i can feel my social anxiety just looking at this one.
Liar of Lesbos precisely, i think of the room as one giant flesh like alien entity embodying substance abuse anxiety depression looking upon its prey that it swallowed, slowly digesting them with its acidic gaze and melting their consiousnesses into the walls and furniture thus creating aboiling pit of despair that you the viewer are hopelessly trapped in.
and it's so haunting.
Very beautiful painting. Unsettling, but not even remotely ugly.
Agreed, this is no where near ugly.
I only had known more famous works by Van Gogh but after watching this video this piece has become my favorite already
It is a very beautiful painting indeed but I believe that the unsettling and dark feeling the painting gives off is what makes it ugly
It doesn't look ugly, it feels ugly.
Not unsettling either
Suddenly I had a weird feeling when I saw this painting.
I can't explain what truly is, but I felt like you were on a sad, lonely, eerie world.
Lol, i feel you. The more i watch this video, the more scared i am.
VITTXRIO I feel like I’m trapped
I like Impressionism
Because you are suffering from same feeling...me as well
Unsettling
The pool table doesn't have holes. Wonder if that was intentional
Carom billiards tables don't have holes. French game. The rules are different.
@@capucinebertin4055 interesting. I didn't know that, Thanks for the info. Guess i can delete my comment now haha
@@DeadlyLazer No, by all means. It's an interesting comment. It caught my eye because I'm french and I knew that. But I still had to search for the english name of that game. So you know...
Sorry if I came across as an arrogant french.
What a wholesome exchange.
2 gentlemen the senate needs
Welp, he succeeded. This painting makes me feel like I'm too drunk to stand up, feel like I'm trapped, and it makes me feel like I'm going mad.
it gives me nausea and anxiety
6:05 it lowkey looks like benedict Cumberbatch
Plot twist : Benedict is the reincarnation of Van Gogh
Or hugh Laurie
haha i read that comment at the same time the painting was flashed 😂😂😂
bendydick cucumbersnatch should play him in a film
Actually benedict did play a role of vincent van gogh for bbc documentary, i've watched them on youtube too
If you haven’t seen Loving Vincent I’d highly recommend it! It’s a gorgeous film that gives you a lot of insight into his life and style.
I would also highly recommend 'At Eternity's Gate'. It took me a bit to understand just what Schnabel was doing, but once I got that the film was not a 'bio-pic', but was a meditation as seen through Vincent's eyes, I was blown away. (And Willem Dafoe was robbed at the Oscars.)
I watched it on Fox Movies and I have no doubt that it's pure oops magnum.
i once read somewhere that all those paintings they made could cover whole London
If you want a bit of a Fiction twist on his story that's still based on true facts the Doctor who episode is really good. Really helped me appreciate who Vincent would've been like as a person :)
Loving Vincent was amazing and got robbed of the best animated feature Oscar
If you liked the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam I can’t recommend the Kröller-Müller museum enough. It’s maybe an hour or so outside the city. They have the second largest collection of Van Goghs in the world, including some of my personal favorites, and crowds a tenth the size of Amsterdam. Plus you’ll get to find yourself in the gorgeous countryside in their outdoor sculpture gardens.
I just gave a visiting friend exactly the same advice yesterday :)
Honestly everything out of Amsterdam is better...
wow i lived in amsterdam but never knew this. i've only visited Van Gogh and Rijkmuseum :(
Heard there's an Amsterdam light festival, starry night where his art was published.
This painting hangs in the Yale art gallery, anyone can view it free of charge. Don't forget to ask for the headphones, you can type a code into them displayed on some of the art. Van Gogh gave this painting to the man in the white jacket, he owned the bar and the apartment above it which Van Gogh lived in.
_The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour._
*~Vincent Van Gogh*
How about you stfu
Friendship lol I thought u where talking about yourself
@@ujustgotdunkedon4523 Nope. I said about the quote.
its pretty evident that the greatest works of art come from people in times of despair
@@kitzthekat7977 Why? Why the fuck is everyone being such a cunt in this comment section? Literally everyone is an asshole, my god.
this photo makes me feel physically anxious
came here to say this
The brushstrokes are short and strong
You don’t say ?
Very thorough analysis!
YOU SHOULD CHECKOUT HIS OTHER WORK
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Glad to see you here man! Love your work.
THIS was brilliantly explained. I cannot begin to thank you for sharing this video. Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters, and this added so much more information for me as I learn about art. Thank you!
How do you make such perfect videos, everything from the editing to the commentary to the structure is mastery.
Because he spends what feels like 7 years making 7 minute videos.
it's not unsettling for me. I wish i can feel the unsettling feeling you get from it. it's kinda warm and cozy for me.
There’s a madness to his paintings that is visceral. The lack of literally mixing the colours gives it a manic quality that can be either jarring or soothing depending on his colour theory within a given painting
That relatable moment when you are so good that even the ugly thing you make is a masterpeice...
This is considered ugly?! (laughs in no art skills)
@@JotechLung no it is ugly, it is ugly intentionally because he wanted it to be ugly, because the ugliness portrays the feeling of being in the cafe.
@@JotechLung that is the play on words that the video uses as it's premise, yes. the painting IS ugly, it is visually unpleasant to look at, and the video explains why and how it is artistically effective and how the juxtaposition is interesting and insightful.
*cries in no art skills
intentionally, masterfully, ugly
@@JotechLung youre implying the painting isn't ugly but the stick man is, as if effort or visual coherence displays quality. That's true, which is why this painting is ugly, it intentionally lacks fundamental visual coherence, such as perspective and shadows. Your logic is inconsistent.
Not only did I love the analysis of the painting, but the effects in the video, particularly when the colors gradually appear from red, to green, to yellow and then the rest were absolutely spectacular. Great job as always!
I actually think that the painting looks really cozy, the yellow lighting makes it kinda inviting imo
You may have a drinking problem
me too!!! i was literally searching the comments for someone who feels the same lol. to me it captures the feeling of a late night in a cozy place
Yeah I get what you mean it's chill ya know
The composition and colours are actually very good
That's what I feel first, but then, when I keep looking at it, it slowly makes me feel anxious.
It’s incredibly heart breaking. On his death bed he glanced at his brother and said I want to go home. I think he said that because he was incoherent and wanted to see his father. He never got to see his father before his death
Theo didn't even arrive until after Vincent died.
Their father died before Vincent died and Theo was by Vincent’s side when he was dying :((
This night café reminds me of the cafés I went to alone or with my friends when I was a student.
I actually find it almost comforting.
I remember the heat, the drunk old guys, the loneliness, the beer smell.
It sounds sad but I don't know why... I liked these moments and I still do like remembering them.
I felt real darkness there some days, real friendship other days.
It inspired me to put real raw emotions into my music and drawing.
I find it cozy, it remi ds me of the cafes I went to to play billiards, they had old men hunched and a backroom where people played dominoes, the one I went most times actually had green and red walls and that yellowy lighting only interrupted by the colder light avove the billiard table. Nostalgia can make anything beautiful and expressed by a master like van Gogh makes its job easier.
Look at Edward Hoppers' paintings.
Red/green color combinations are FASCINATING to me. It's really interesting that red/green became the dominant color theme of Xmas, especially because the two are so brash next to each other. It's almost like we all decided as a culture that CHRISTMAS MUST BE AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE. Keep up the great work my friend!
Let's just be happy that it isn't bright green and bright pink.
However, the combo is usually mellowed out with a lot of white, invariably if you live somewhere it snows, plus stories about Santa Claus and Jesus both typically bring in white. There's often many other colors in adition when it comes to decorations, gold in particular is a common Xmas colour, and brings some class even if it's no less loud.
But yeah, it's really interesting how each holiday seems to have it's unique preset colour scheme.
idk why this seems wholesome to me lol
Yeah Christmas is loud, it’s october and I’ve still been hearing people sing jingle bells
This has always been my favorite van gogh, and thus one of my favorite paintings and have seen it In person a good dozen times, I never thought of it as conventionally 'ugly' before which is odd. I've always thought it was beautiful but I see it now
Beauty is in de eye of the beholder
it's so very beautiful.
00:29 that song brought some memories
Could you please direct me to the source
The visuals in this video is absolutely amazing.
yes..
I really love this type of video.
ans of course those paints as well
yes..
I really love this type of video.
ans of course those paints as well
Nerdwriter1 has some of the highest quality video essays on the internet. The editing, production quality, analysis, and visual presentation of research are all so crisp, beautiful, and easily understandable. It's a shame and a miracle that these videos come out once a month. The artistic education i've gotten out of Nerdwriter videos is absolutely amazing.
The lamps look like eyes staring at me, makes me feel even more unconfortable
thanks I cant unsee it now
Ikr! its the first thing I saw as well
This is a realistic example of what a social bustling setting looks like when you look at it from sober eyes (even tho VG was probably not sober) looking at something from the distance of loneliness and mental illness. He may have been depicting the setting itself objectively, but it feels more like he is depicting through his on eyes which are tinged with this deep separation from the people around him even though he was right next to them. Maybe that’s why it feels and looks ugly. He felt connected in nature, so there is a love attached to it, there is a sense of oneness. When he is inside, it’s almost like it was synthetic to him, like walking into the matrix. It’s sad but honestly weirdly relatable. One of my favorite songs is the Nirvana song “Dumb” - when you’re mentally ill you can either pretend to fit in in settings like this, or you can see the truth of the experience which is lonely and sad.
Im still wondering who is vango
He must be an unknown artist
I think the UTuber wrote the name phonetically, on purpose.
Lol
He is probably a contemporary painter of vanku and maybe a relatives of bango.
😂
Bangor?
I find the painting to be cozy and comforting for some reason
I love these painting analysis videos. I hope you'll do more in the future.
TDB < DSotM
Türkçe altyazısını ekleyin de biz de beğenek be dostum :) Bilgiye ulaşma hakkı kutsaldır.
I'm just seeing this painting for the first time and the feeling of anxiety and sorrow is quickly noticeable in the surroundings, reminds me of times I've sat alone in cafes and bars like this. It's an uneasy feeling, yet it somehow feels attractive as well.
Love that you're taking your time with these. Your uploads are one of the best examples of quality over quantity!
I kind of like it. The colors are nice and the large shadow is intriguing big and silent. The focus, the man is off centered and facelessly staring at you, like he’s greeting/acknowledging you. And there’s pink flowers in the back. A very calm and quiet painting.
This is my favourite Van Gogh. I’ve been fortunate enough to see it “in the flesh” twice. It stopped me in my track, I felt I could hear him urging me “look, look! “. I read that he once wrote that if he painted a tree, he didn’t want people to see a tree, he wanted them to feel it. I certainly feel him in this painting. I could write a page about what I get out of it.
I love Van Gogh so much. I’ve only seen one of his paintings in person and I stared into it for about 20 minutes before a line began to form behind at which point I went to the back of the line so I could look a second time. Thank you for the video.
I wish I could see what colours he used for this painting.
I’m colorblind.
so sorry. my friend and mentor al hansen fluxus artist was also color blind. rip al.
The colours have faded.
buy colorblind glasses. save and spend money for experiences.its more worth it
it's nothing special man
Mainly red for the walls,an aggressive am unnerving colour,and green for the tables and glasses,a pale ugly shade of sickness
*Internally corrects the pronunciation of "Gogh" every time*
Yeah it actually hurts to hear everyone butcher his name
I mean, I'm from the UK so I pronounce it Van Goff, let me tell you, you wouldn't want to hear us trying to pronounce it like "fenn hkhorcgh" or however it's really pronounced in dutch every time. That would be a lot more painful...and pretentious as hell.
Still hurts buddy
Yawn.. always a comment about the mispronounciation of his name. Nice video. Thanks.
Dutch is not even a real language. It's just german for drunk people.
Ugliest Masterpiece? 😍😍😍 Didn’t expect to get featured in a video omg, thank you guys!!!
😂😂😂
no wonder why i always feel uncomfortable during christmas
I've actually seen this one in person! My first primary thought when I saw it was how the weird perspective lines capture drunkenness.
In the painting I always fricken’ lock my eyes on the guy with the white outfit and it just freaks me out every time😰
It's cause you a pussy
@@nathanbarraza2776 lmfao
@@nathanbarraza2776 hey chad fight me. ill fight you in that bar
0:27 * hair cake PTSD intensifies *
Boog *H A B E U S E E N A C H E F P L S*
Jesus fucking christ I forgot about that now I need to see my psychiatrist.
god it gave me flashbacks
does anyone know the song?
Jesus that video popped up in my recommended. I don't know whether to feel scared or happy lol
Has anyone compared this painting to the "Liminal Spaces" effect. Cus this painting feels a bit liminal. "The Cafe Terrace at night" and "Night Cafe" are honestly my two favorite paintings from Van Gogh, I know everyone is always talking about "Starry Night" or his "Sunflowers" painting but these two are my favorite and I'm really not sure why too. Night Cafe for me is like in the same vain of why I like Hopper's Nighthawks. There's just something about those paintings that I can't explain the feeling but they make me feel in the moment if that makes sense.
Night cafe is a painting that has you continually glancing at the doorway, unable to move towards it because of the hypnotic claustrophobic feel of the rest of the scene. The awareness that something is wrong, and you need to leave.
The walls are closing in, the drugs are taking hold, the depression has mutilated you. There is no escape from our own fears and anxieties.
The jumpscares... not sure how paintings can be so scary but it worked
Your videos are masterpieces. Truly, whenever you make a video, I feel as if I'm walking out of it with more understanding in the world
I don’t know why but once in a while I’ll always come back to this video
It is claustrophobic and oppressive but incredibly compelling. The lighting reminds me of what I feel under harsh indoor florescent lighting where everything seems yellowed. I am an artist as well and Van Gogh is my favorite painter. He painted from the heart. I am in awe.
my mom had a replica of this in our living room and when I was little I remember only being able to recognize the single man. the rest was just jumbled garbage in my toddler eyes. beautiful art now that I look at it and I feel kinda connected to the painting in a way
I've missed these - I loved your understanding art series.
"Van gock", "Van go", "Van Gough". Why are there so many different pronunciations of his name? and which one is right?
van gogh
Generaly one can always assume the US Americans pronounce foreign names wrong.
In english it's "Van Gou" I think. In german it's "Van Gogh"
Van Gahk, sort of. The k is very soft, barely there. It's certainly not Van Go, as this video pronounces it.
In Dutch, which was his native tongue, it is pronounced 'van Gogh' with two raw, guttoral g's. It is very hard to pronounce for someone who does not speak Dutch, even though it looks simple.
Dude. You're the Bomb!!! One of the biggest reasons i started making video essays... Heavily influenced..
Kudos!
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worked. +sub
his work is so amazing because he suffered so much, through his suffering came such amazing beauty which he left behind and the world will forever be amazed and thankful loving Vincent.
I grew up with this painting at my local museum (Yale Art Gallery) and it has always been my favorite in their collection. Whether it was ugly or not never occurred to me. Today I see the dichotomy of beauty vs ugly to be a trick being played on us to keep us in line. Most of the art/movies/stories/dance/music I love and find most meaningful is that which is often deemed to be "ugly".
I think this analysis also fits well with the aesthetic of neo-noir cinema, especially the colour schemes of movies like Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver or Fight Club
Why do I feel weird and I feel scared and trapped when I see that painting?
Wdym?
@@mariemistlake5077 I feel weird... Idk I can't explain it but it's really weird.
for me it kinda feels like i see it through a fish eye lens, because it has that warped effect... makes it feel like it’s seen through a surveillance camera but that is probably just me. I get what you mean though, it also feels like the white man is staring at me
@@sarahmolnar8075 Yeah
when he showed the paiting of Cafe Terrace Night, i realized the painting in my living room was actually a Vincent's work 😅
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this painting makes me think of that moment before panic or a breakdown when you feel utterly alone even in a room with others and drowning in yourself because no one can pull you out of you. it's ugly in that feeling it reminds you of, of dark moments that are never pretty and certainly don't feel pretty to go through, but beautiful in every stroke and the wonderful way he got the message across.
this is one of my favorite videos. the way you combine narration, sound design, and graphics to create a compelling story about complex material like this is incredible. please keep doing it.
Can we pleaseeee get a spin-off channel from you just of your art analysis? They are always so illuminating!!
I love this video! It is an art itself. The essay, the video, the use of sounds and music... it's all brilliantly done!
This painting must have influenced the design in Breaking Bad.
There's something about the way the lights are painted as well. They look like tired sad eyes that constantly watch your every move. A lingering feeling that as you see everyone else ruin themselves through the night, they are also watching you. They are casting a light on the way you ruin yourself.
he’s such a genius, he truly redefined art and it’s meaning
00:27 As SOON as I heard the music, I remembered filthy frank cake videos
Which music is that? Please.
Roses are red,
I can't hear,
where's my ear?
-Vincent Van Gogh
Ear blood is red,
Paul please don't leave me,
Cafes are scary,
My painting is intentionally ugly.
After "the incident" Van Gogh's friends used to asked him, Vince, you are such a beautiful man, why did you cut your ear?! And you know what Van Gogh told them?
-"WHAT?"
edit: capitalization;)
Marvin Filipp I ATE IT BISS!!! 🤩🤩🤪🤪
Marvin Filipp HIS EAR TASTE SO GOOD DAMN!!! 🤪🤪🤪
@@eatshipanddie6045 that dosen't even rhyme!!
Great video, but there are some common mistakes when it comes to the color wheel and secondary colors.
The three primary colors are those that can't be made mixing by any other colors, they are cyan, yellow and magenta (not red). Secondary colors are the combinations of two primary colors: purple, green and red. Complementary colors are pairs of colors that are opposite on the color wheel, the complementary of a primary color is always a secondary color formed by the two other primary colors, they are: magenta-green, yellow-purple and cyan-red. Different tones of reds are complementary to different tones of blue, the more a red leans towards magenta (such as a raspberry color), the more its complementary blue will lean towards green (like a turquoise), but it won't be actual green. Hope this helps someone, there's a lot of misinformation when it comes to basic color theory
Thanks, that's interesting ;) Do you know what he says in 4:17? I mean, I can't understand the name of that color and I try to translate it into Polish c:
@@amlyczywek "sulphur yellow" it's a bright yellow (a little green)
@@magpie405 Thank you ☺️
Beautiful painting. Van Gogh was all about emotion.
When you mentioned Terrace Cafe i couldn't help but smile as i had a canvas poster of that painting in my room
"ugliest masterpiece" is how my mom describes me.
4:18
smart people: sulfur yellow
me: poop yellow
“Ugliest” dude have you even seen the details like I can’t even draw a glass of water and Vincent Van Gogh paints a café that looks a bit creepy and then it’s considered “ugly” 😂
The word ugly in this context refers to the ugly side of the world the picture is depicting. In my native language the word ugly can be used to describe someone who acts mean. Ugly doesn't only refer to beauty on the outside, but also the inside. And the inside of this piece is ugly.
He literally spends the WHOLE video praising and explaining the details of the painting. Maybe you should have actually watched it before commenting 🙄
It's not considered ugly. It was titled ugly by the artist. Try watching the video again.
Van gogh often painted very fast and honestly i feel that. It’s such a nice feeling creating something you like by forgetting about what you want the end product to be like.
I love van Gogh! His use of paint strokes and colors is fantastic!
This video is the type on immersive analysis I wanna have when looking at a painting.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the bartender just standing there, staring into the viewers' souls. The only painting of his that I genuinely can't look at for very long..
Wow, looks like the video convinced you
@@weirdguy4948 nah, I have a book of his paintings, I studied it last year, and this is one of my least favorites. I clicked on this video because I knew this painting already, and I've seen critics call it ugly before, and I agreed, so I wanted to see where the masterpiece part of the title came in.
Did you intentionally mean to unbalance us with the 4:3 aspect ratio? xD
(great vid as always ❤️)
Its to match the painting's aspect ratio. He did it too on the last video as well.
I'm more unbalanced by the Human Cake music
It looks great on an iPad
Me too! Beautiful museum and incorporated historic significance of gamy members roles
this is the best video on youtube. i cant pin point one single reason, the colours, sounds, style all combine to perfection.
I'm inspired by the level thought you put into each video Mr. Puschak !! 🙏🙏🙏
Van Gogh: "this might just be my mashterpieshe"
What a great video! You're a huge inspiration for my own channel on Art History!
Seeing this at the Yale museum is a stunning experience. Seeing the blobs of paint it looks alive and gives the impression that it was just painted. It is not neat and polite but rude and alive. It is a remarkable painting and among my favourites of van Gogh.
This painting screams✨ Sad , Loneliness and Depression✨. while looking to this painting it feels like you're inside of this cafe and trapped , what an eerie feeling 💀
*our senses are mediated by emotion*
Very well put... human life is a rollercoaster of emotions. To only play into the highs does feel insincere!
If you could only have uploaded this earlier I had an question about this painting on my art exam :(
When its worst but still be called a masterpiece.
subconsciously i wished the doorway at this painting led outside at starry night at first glance.. then your explanation made sense why i felt that way.
The Van Gogh Museum is well worth a visit. You'll be blown away by the vibrancy of the paintings and the actual thickness of the paint on the canvass. I couldn't believe it.
Can you also do a vid on Van Goghs painting “Olive trees”, I’ve always been interested how it was painted while he was in an asylum.
They let him go outside. Not all asylums were prisons.
*complementary. Not complimentary. Common mistake but they two different meanings. Complimentary is something that comes for free whereas complementary is when two things complement each other.
The videos are great and everything, but as a "Nerdwriter" this is an error one should avoid.
Where are you getting this from? He says complementary (2:43, you hear 'eh', not 'ih') then also shows a quote that has the word in it (2:58).
@@PackRatSupreme 2:04
what pedantry.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 what useful contribution to the discussion
Will you please talk about Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress'.
Van Gogh was a childhood idol of mine. I loved his work from the first time I saw it, and reproduced a select number of works in aquarel when I was 11. It was only when I reached adult phase though that then significance and uniqueness of his works really dawned on me, especially the contrasting colors and the oftentimes strange perspectives. The story of the man was a sad one however, and I wish he would have got the recognition he deserves, which unfotunarely only was reached post mortem.
There are few artist who compare to his unique style, but I for one loved his breakaway from traditional art contemporaries and the way he, stubbornly believed in his own work. He was determined, devoted, and had a very peculiar relationship with nature, space and shapes. His work keeps on inspiring me.
Great video!
Like two years ago I didn’t know who Van Gogh was then I moved to the Netherlands and in art class I saw his painting didn’t think much of it but really loved it then I started to research about him and watched I think 2 movies about him and fell in love with his art late last year I went to the kroller muller museum I cried after seeing his paintings they just speak to me somehow I sew the world in a different light because of is paintings I really love Van Gogh and his paintings💜❤️