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''Café Terrace at Night'', also known as ''The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum'', is a coloured oil painting executed by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 ''(Toile de 25 figure)'' in Arles, France, mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.〔(See www.vangoghletters.org, Advanced Search )〕 There is also a large pen drawing of the composition which originates from the artist's estate. Visitors of the site can still stand at the northeastern corner of the ''Place du Forum'', where the artist set up his easel.〔The site was refurbished in 1990/91 to replicate Van Gogh's painting.〕 He looked south towards the artificially lit terrace of the popular coffee house, as well as into the enforced darkness of the ''rue du Palais'' leading up to the building structure (to the left, not pictured) and, beyond this structure, the tower of a former church (now ''Musée Lapidaire''). Towards the right, Van Gogh indicated a lighted shop as well, and some branches of the trees surrounding the place—but he omitted the remainders of the Roman monuments just beside this little shop. The painting is currently at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. ==Genesis== After finishing ''Café Terrace at Night'', Van Gogh wrote a letter to his sister expressing his enthusiasm: He continues, in this same letter, This excerpt forms the basis of the Van Gogh Museum's curators' opinion that the painting is a depiction "''of drinkers in the harsh, bright lights of their illuminated facades''" from Maupassant's novel ''Bel Ami'', however, they also note that Maupassant makes no mention of a 'starry sky.' 〔(www.vangoghletters.org )〕 In 1981, Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov argued that since it “displays not only a night scene but also a funnel-like perspective and dominant blue-yellow tonality” it was at least partially inspired by Louis Anquetin's ''Avenue de Clichy: 5 o'clock in the evening.''〔Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila: ''Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism'' (!), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 24 January - 22 March 1981 and Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, 9 April - 14 June 1989 ISBN 0-919876-66-8〕 An academic paper presented at IAFOR's 2013 European Conference on Arts & Humanities, however, advanced the theory that van Gogh intended the painting to be a uniquely innovated ''Last Supper''. The paper was subsequently published by The Art Histories Society in the January, 2014 ''Art History Supplement''〔(See Art History Supplement vol. 4, issue 1 )〕 and the July, 2014 fourteenth volume of ''The Anistoriton Journal of History, Archaeology and Art History''.〔(See Anistoriton Journal of History, Archaeology and Art History Volume 14 )〕 Briefly, the paper examines the myriad artistic influences van Gogh was parsing the summer of 1888: his lifelong devotion to and imitation of Jesus Christ; synthesizing ''Japonism'' and ''Cloisonnism'' with his own ''plein air'' techniques; colorizing Jean-François Millet's pious genre scenes with Eugène Delacroix's luminous palette (see Boats du Rhône); "search-for-sacred-realism" correspondence with his artist friend Émile Bernard; Thomas Carlyle and Boccaccio's examples of dressing old ideas in new clothes; an Émile Burnouf article claiming Buddhist missionaries sowed the seeds Essenes later reaped as Christianity; failed attempts creating his own Christ in the Garden of Olives; two proximal ''Last Supper'' studies (''Interior of a Restaurant in Arles'' and ''Interior of the Restaurant Carrel in Arles'') featuring straw-bottomed chairs he'd just purchased by the dozen (hoping to start a commune of twelve "artist-apostles" at his Yellow House); culminating with his composition of twelve diners drenched in a yellow halo surrounding a Rembrandtesque server framed by a crucifix at the vanishing point of the picture; it's concluded his original starry night is a Symbolist's ''Last Supper''. Although van Gogh never explicitly mentioned his intent in any existing letter, he did write his brother Theo two weeks later, "That doesn't stop me having a terrible need for - dare I say the word - for religion. So I go outside at night to paint the stars and I always dream a painting like that with a group of living figures of the pals."〔(www.vangoghletters.org )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cafe Terrace at Night」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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