Night Cafe at Arles

Taken from: Abc Gallery

     Night Cafe at Arles is a realistic painting that Paul Gauguin had painted while in Arles. This painting is located in Pushkin Museum, which is in Moscow, Russia. The painting is related to the book Sunflowers, because Gauguin came to stay with Van Gogh after receiving an invitation from Theo. The invitation consisted of Gauguin to help make Van Gogh's paintings sell. Both Van Gogh and Gauguin painted similar pictures, however, their styles of painting were different. This painting shows that Gauguin took the time to paint minor details. For example, the facial features of the people in the painting.  This is important because it contrasts Gauguin's paintings from Van Gogh. 
     Night Cafe at Arles was painted in 1888. The medium of the painting is oil on canvas. The style and technique that is used is this painting is a warm color palette. Gauguin also used the technique of long brushstrokes. Gauguin also created two different scenes within one scene. The first scene is the drinkers in the background, and the other scene is Madame Ginoux in the foreground of the painting. The main subject of this painting is loneliness. It conveys loneliness because the women of the painting is separating herself from the other people.