All-Night Café “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 sulphurous
yellow… I’ve tried to convey the sinister power of such a place.” Vincent
van Gogh.
See: Paul Gauguin. Night
Café at Arles.