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Chapter 2

Vincent Van Gogh tried to capture the colors of night in paintings like The Poet - Boch and Starry Night, portraying starlight and artificial light with swirling implied lines. While both Starry Night and Night Cafe depict light in a similar visual style, they represent different meanings - Night Cafe uses dark reds and greens to depict "terrible human passions" and a vile environment, whereas Starry Night conveys a calm but foreboding vibe with Van Gogh's statement "We take death to go to a star."

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Chapter 2

Vincent Van Gogh tried to capture the colors of night in paintings like The Poet - Boch and Starry Night, portraying starlight and artificial light with swirling implied lines. While both Starry Night and Night Cafe depict light in a similar visual style, they represent different meanings - Night Cafe uses dark reds and greens to depict "terrible human passions" and a vile environment, whereas Starry Night conveys a calm but foreboding vibe with Van Gogh's statement "We take death to go to a star."

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Chapter 2

Visual Elements of ART

Throughout much of his career, Vincent Van Gogh tried to capture


'the colors of cnight' through his paintings. This is especially true for
his two paintings, The Poet - Boch, and Starry Night. However, Van
Gogh did not exclusively try to replicate the night sky. In his
piece Night Cafe, he captures artificial light as well. In both Starry
Night and Night Cafe, Van Gogh portrays starlight and artificial light
very similarly in the fact that the light they emit are both made up of
swirling implied lines. Contrarily though, the pieces seem to have two
different meanings. The dark reds and contrasting greens in The
Cafe are meant to represent "terrible human passions". Van Gogh
made this piece with the belief that the place he was in was vile and
could persuade anyone into committing unlawful acts. In a Starry
Night, there is more of a calm but slightly foreboding vibe. Van Gogh
stated, "We take death to go to a star." There is a longing for the
beauty of the stars, but an ominous presence in knowing that only
through death may we obtain them.

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