How did Vincent Van Gogh express ideas about his subject in The Night Café, and what kind of emotions did he want to express? How do we know his intensions?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Van Gogh wanted to express the idea that the café was a place where one could ruin oneself or go mad—it was a place comparable to the devil's furnace.
2. He used clashing colors of red and green that were not locally true.
3. He felt that these clashing colors of red and green expressed the terrible passions of humanity.
4. He wrote of his intentions in a letter to his brother.
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