Van Gogh's Ugliest Masterpiece

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@flamingogh_ 4 года назад

I love night cafe. I don't think it's ugly the way we're taught in school, I think it's ugly in the way it feels. It's an ugly atmosphere, but a beautiful painting of that ugliness. If that makes sense.

@tuanjim799 4 года назад

Yeah, it's not at all ugly in a "eeew, that's a shitty painting" way. It's just depicting something dark. it's beautiful in the same way that a Dostoevsky novel is beautiful, even when it's depicting some of the harshest, ugliest aspects of human experience.

@jw4390 4 года назад

What do you learn in school lol

@corntastrophy 4 года назад

It's kind of like how music can be "ugly". It's not that it sounds bad, but it sounds so hurt and suffered that it's beautiful.

@phobusapollo2591 4 года назад

Go tell Van Gogh😂

@corntastrophy 4 года назад

@Juan Perez I come here to escape politics and not talk about it for once ...

@shadeyshade4880 5 лет назад

So basically, this was the first cursed image

@LilRotte3 5 лет назад

Not really. You know who created it, when and under what circumstances this painting was created, and what is depicted in it.

@tangyorange6509 5 лет назад

Whoa when I like this comment it goes from 1.1 to 1.2

@isaacthebrubhimself8923 5 лет назад

No it was actually ooga booga’s carving in the 3rd cave of the anchient rome

@eekns 5 лет назад

No, curses are not real.

@diegosilva3927 5 лет назад

@@eekns It's a joke.

@madhatter8509 5 лет назад

"Ugliest masterpiece" is what I call my art everytime

@johannfer7073 5 лет назад

try again😁😁

@madhatter8509 5 лет назад

@@johannfer7073 Haha yes I'm trying :') I forgot I made this comment

@user-ou9zk3cm4x 5 лет назад

I wouldn't even call any of my art a masterpiece

@patchesmalonescolorfulthin9313 5 лет назад

Universal feeling

@zerika1362 5 лет назад

I think ive seen you before..

@cutienerdgirl 5 лет назад

Welp, he succeeded. This painting makes me feel like I'm too drunk to stand up, feel like I'm trapped, and it makes me feel like I'm going mad.

@thinginground5179 3 года назад

it gives me nausea and anxiety

@wthalex9319 5 лет назад

this photo makes me feel physically anxious

@jennamarcus4283 2 года назад

came here to say this

@HoH 5 лет назад

Very thorough analysis!

@yt-sh 5 лет назад

YOU SHOULD CHECKOUT HIS OTHER WORK ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rKhfFBbVtFg.html

@ThisisBarris 5 лет назад

Glad to see you here man! Love your work.

@landahoy1706 5 лет назад

6:05 it lowkey looks like benedict Cumberbatch

@용커들 5 лет назад

Plot twist : Benedict is the reincarnation of Van Gogh

@atrabashoaib771 4 года назад

Or hugh Laurie

@russelldaynos5618 4 года назад

haha i read that comment at the same time the painting was flashed 😂😂😂

@alanparker9898 4 года назад

bendydick cucumbersnatch should play him in a film

@ernigee 4 года назад

Actually benedict did play a role of vincent van gogh for bbc documentary, i've watched them on youtube too

@shmudnurmu6709 5 лет назад

Nerdwriter1 has some of the highest quality video essays on the internet. The editing, production quality, analysis, and visual presentation of research are all so crisp, beautiful, and easily understandable. It's a shame and a miracle that these videos come out once a month. The artistic education i've gotten out of Nerdwriter videos is absolutely amazing.

@halimadjozic4741 5 лет назад

I wish I could see what colours he used for this painting. I’m colorblind.

@simonegad 4 года назад

so sorry. my friend and mentor al hansen fluxus artist was also color blind. rip al.

@gavinreid5387 4 года назад

The colours have faded.

@jaear6032 4 года назад

buy colorblind glasses. save and spend money for experiences.its more worth it

@janotopspin 3 года назад

it's nothing special man

@arpitdas4263 3 года назад

Mainly red for the walls,an aggressive am unnerving colour,and green for the tables and glasses,a pale ugly shade of sickness

@stonekeykongmusic642 5 лет назад

This night café reminds me of the cafés I went to alone or with my friends when I was a student. I actually find it almost comforting. I remember the heat, the drunk old guys, the loneliness, the beer smell. It sounds sad but I don't know why... I liked these moments and I still do like remembering them. I felt real darkness there some days, real friendship other days. It inspired me to put real raw emotions into my music and drawing.

@eleSDSU 5 лет назад

I find it cozy, it remi ds me of the cafes I went to to play billiards, they had old men hunched and a backroom where people played dominoes, the one I went most times actually had green and red walls and that yellowy lighting only interrupted by the colder light avove the billiard table. Nostalgia can make anything beautiful and expressed by a master like van Gogh makes its job easier.

@samitpaudel7886 5 лет назад

Look at Edward Hoppers' paintings.

@loveinthematrix 3 года назад

This is a realistic example of what a social bustling setting looks like when you look at it from sober eyes (even tho VG was probably not sober) looking at something from the distance of loneliness and mental illness. He may have been depicting the setting itself objectively, but it feels more like he is depicting through his on eyes which are tinged with this deep separation from the people around him even though he was right next to them. Maybe that’s why it feels and looks ugly. He felt connected in nature, so there is a love attached to it, there is a sense of oneness. When he is inside, it’s almost like it was synthetic to him, like walking into the matrix. It’s sad but honestly weirdly relatable. One of my favorite songs is the Nirvana song “Dumb” - when you’re mentally ill you can either pretend to fit in in settings like this, or you can see the truth of the experience which is lonely and sad.

@chuforeichi 5 лет назад

I kind of like it. The colors are nice and the large shadow is intriguing big and silent. The focus, the man is off centered and facelessly staring at you, like he’s greeting/acknowledging you. And there’s pink flowers in the back. A very calm and quiet painting.

@ingeborg-anne 5 лет назад

*Internally corrects the pronunciation of "Gogh" every time*

@TehMightyWhale 5 лет назад

Yeah it actually hurts to hear everyone butcher his name

@jordanoneill7052 5 лет назад

I mean, I'm from the UK so I pronounce it Van Goff, let me tell you, you wouldn't want to hear us trying to pronounce it like "fenn hkhorcgh" or however it's really pronounced in dutch every time. That would be a lot more painful...and pretentious as hell.

@TehMightyWhale 5 лет назад

Still hurts buddy

@splodge5714 5 лет назад

Yawn.. always a comment about the mispronounciation of his name. Nice video. Thanks.

@zezinharias 5 лет назад

Dutch is not even a real language. It's just german for drunk people.

@MiamiMarkYT 5 лет назад

I love Van Gogh so much. I’ve only seen one of his paintings in person and I stared into it for about 20 minutes before a line began to form behind at which point I went to the back of the line so I could look a second time. Thank you for the video.

@alexgrigas1696 5 лет назад

I've actually seen this one in person! My first primary thought when I saw it was how the weird perspective lines capture drunkenness.

@ジュニパーベリー 4 года назад

Ugliest Masterpiece? 😍😍😍 Didn’t expect to get featured in a video omg, thank you guys!!!

@sanamsitaram7940 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@classicalmusic1175 5 лет назад

"Van gock", "Van go", "Van Gough". Why are there so many different pronunciations of his name? and which one is right?

@nationalgamerzz3489 5 лет назад

van gogh

@toatatoa 4 года назад

Generaly one can always assume the US Americans pronounce foreign names wrong.

@okuyasuniijimura 4 года назад

In english it's "Van Gou" I think. In german it's "Van Gogh"

@JiveDadson 4 года назад

Van Gahk, sort of. The k is very soft, barely there. It's certainly not Van Go, as this video pronounces it.

@lukasvanklinken4367 3 года назад

In Dutch, which was his native tongue, it is pronounced 'van Gogh' with two raw, guttoral g's. It is very hard to pronounce for someone who does not speak Dutch, even though it looks simple.

@wig.8gles 4 года назад

Why do I feel weird and I feel scared and trapped when I see that painting?

@mariemistlake5077 3 года назад

Wdym?

@wig.8gles 3 года назад

@@mariemistlake5077 I feel weird... Idk I can't explain it but it's really weird.

@sarahmolnar8075 3 года назад

for me it kinda feels like i see it through a fish eye lens, because it has that warped effect... makes it feel like it’s seen through a surveillance camera but that is probably just me. I get what you mean though, it also feels like the white man is staring at me

@wig.8gles 3 года назад

@@sarahmolnar8075 Yeah

@dragonmummy1 4 года назад

This is my favourite Van Gogh. I’ve been fortunate enough to see it “in the flesh” twice. It stopped me in my track, I felt I could hear him urging me “look, look! “. I read that he once wrote that if he painted a tree, he didn’t want people to see a tree, he wanted them to feel it. I certainly feel him in this painting. I could write a page about what I get out of it.

@MultiConnor01 4 года назад

this is one of my favorite videos. the way you combine narration, sound design, and graphics to create a compelling story about complex material like this is incredible. please keep doing it.

@salad1000 4 года назад

4:18 smart people: sulfur yellow me: poop yellow

@michaelkpp7285 4 года назад

I think this analysis also fits well with the aesthetic of neo-noir cinema, especially the colour schemes of movies like Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver or Fight Club

@DavidYates8 5 лет назад

This painting must have influenced the design in Breaking Bad.

@alexcarter8807 5 лет назад

The colors trend warm and muddy and that establishes that mood.

@gabrielcosman 4 года назад

yet it has hope... the flowers in the back look perfect!

@elisabethpine3420 4 года назад

It is claustrophobic and oppressive but incredibly compelling. The lighting reminds me of what I feel under harsh indoor florescent lighting where everything seems yellowed. I am an artist as well and Van Gogh is my favorite painter. He painted from the heart. I am in awe.

@aliyahpastrana7047 2 года назад

i love how the bg changes

@lari6389 4 года назад

Oh my I just thought about my visit in the Amsterdam museum the Van Gogh gallery. And then I mentioned yours! Amazing!

@El_Madroño13 3 года назад

The only like really “ eye catching thing in that painting that made me keep looking is the vase of flowers literally in front of you in the back ground

@TheCanvasArtHistory 5 лет назад

What a great video! You're a huge inspiration for my own channel on Art History!

@MonotoniTV 4 года назад

Van Gogh: "this might just be my mashterpieshe"

@ajafatoubah3881 5 лет назад

Like two years ago I didn’t know who Van Gogh was then I moved to the Netherlands and in art class I saw his painting didn’t think much of it but really loved it then I started to research about him and watched I think 2 movies about him and fell in love with his art late last year I went to the kroller muller museum I cried after seeing his paintings they just speak to me somehow I sew the world in a different light because of is paintings I really love Van Gogh and his paintings💜❤️

@jonpaul3868 Год назад

Lmaooo Portugal will be so offended with that red and green thingy.

@stevoofd 2 года назад

Van Gogh was a childhood idol of mine. I loved his work from the first time I saw it, and reproduced a select number of works in aquarel when I was 11. It was only when I reached adult phase though that then significance and uniqueness of his works really dawned on me, especially the contrasting colors and the oftentimes strange perspectives. The story of the man was a sad one however, and I wish he would have got the recognition he deserves, which unfotunarely only was reached post mortem. There are few artist who compare to his unique style, but I for one loved his breakaway from traditional art contemporaries and the way he, stubbornly believed in his own work. He was determined, devoted, and had a very peculiar relationship with nature, space and shapes. His work keeps on inspiring me. Great video!

@lolohets6467 4 месяца назад

Has anyone compared this painting to the "Liminal Spaces" effect. Cus this painting feels a bit liminal. "The Cafe Terrace at night" and "Night Cafe" are honestly my two favorite paintings from Van Gogh, I know everyone is always talking about "Starry Night" or his "Sunflowers" painting but these two are my favorite and I'm really not sure why too. Night Cafe for me is like in the same vain of why I like Hopper's Nighthawks. There's just something about those paintings that I can't explain the feeling but they make me feel in the moment if that makes sense.

@LosMajesLatinBand 3 года назад

Masterful use of the sound. Thanks.

@ratsinthevan4416 5 лет назад

Theres a van gogh painting at the cincinnati art museum, its free admission and well worth a visit! Theres lots of people to ask if you cant find it, but i found it within about an hour in of wandering around.

@nicywailey157 4 года назад

Can you also do a vid on Van Goghs painting “Olive trees”, I’ve always been interested how it was painted while he was in an asylum.

@joez6235 3 года назад

They let him go outside. Not all asylums were prisons.

@the9file 5 лет назад

hittin em wit dat 4:3

@ikatsu6008 3 года назад

I love him. Exsentrick pure hearted with beautiful soul. I am glad you pick him to talk about him. I have read his letter to Theo. His hyper focus to learn sketching, I love his yellow. I have been to Corrot exvision in JP, I was standing right in front of one of his painting, I was possibly step on the same place looking the painting just like him.,,, 😁

@eertikrux666 5 лет назад

This video is kinda unnerving, you even add in a jumpscare (3:50)

@sohamchatterjee6062 5 лет назад

Seriously man, I got scared when it suddenly went dark

@dragosradudumitrescu 2 года назад

The greens are the ones that give the sulfur yellows a sickly feel to the atmosphere. The reds suffer some desaturation, like being drained of life and they keep the yellows earthbound towards the lower register of the painting. Yellows almost want to rise for it is in the nature of yellow to chaotically expand its energy but here they become very tense due to the opposing and oppressing red. That's what may give a feeling of entrapment, almost to the point of asphyxiation.

@TheKlever666 4 года назад

The Night Cafe is really reminds me of umami. It gives simular feeling of being in empty, sad and eerie world. The world where all hope and beauty have been lost long time ago...

@diswazzi1683 5 лет назад

Interesting that green and red are punishing but when you look at the Christmas holiday you can get that same pleasing feeling from orange and blue

@crixxxxxxxxx 3 года назад

The painting resides at the Yale Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut

@Beforethecredits 5 лет назад

Are we all just going to ignore the fact that Mark Twain is in that painting?

@DxMySongxD 5 лет назад

what

@mohammedgouigah3094 3 года назад

I love how he used 4:3 resolution to further reinforce and convey the feelings of anxiety and uneasiness met with the painting. This is a widely used feature in cinema and i think its to make one feel clenched and invoke anxiety. Or atleast thats how it makes me feel.

@romaerb4161 3 года назад

I see my days as a bar maid much different now. Thank you for sharing!

@thanasdushku8551 Год назад

It's the most beautiful piece of Him .

@vipulpandey2 Год назад

The way you explain paintings is so poetic ... Keep posting ♥️♥️

@KatelynAnn710 4 года назад

This painting resonates with me more than the others

@jpart3526 2 года назад

This is a perfect example of art being the only true freedom we have. Freedom to create it and the freedom to interpret. I somehow knew this piece was a complicated one, which brings curiosity. The scene does show a bit of depression and a bit complacency, but is also relaxing. What gives it a different perspective is if you visit the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibits. Highly recommend it.

@ajafatoubah3881 5 лет назад

Omg like two years ago I didn’t know who Van Gogh was then I moved to the Netherlands and in art class I saw his painting didn’t think much of it but really loved it then I started to research about him and watched I think 2 movies about him and fell in love with his art late last year I went to the kroller muller museum I cried after seeing his paintings they just speak to me somehow I sew the world in a different light because of is paintings I really love Van Gogh and his paintings💜❤️

@slowgold7089 4 года назад

I keep coming back to this video. I think of the RU-vid videos on Vincent’s work, it’s one of the best. It’d be awesome if you made one on another one of his paintings

@airingcupboard 5 лет назад

With the use of yellow you would also expect the counters to use purple tones if he was using complementary colours, but instead you get these radioactive greens and blues. But then the dado rail is more orangey (strengthens the blue). Still, comes across as otherworldly. Good analysis.

@codeutopia8973 4 года назад

Awesome episode, Van Gogh is one of my favourites too. Great script, very poetic.

@gammazzz3894 5 лет назад

god damn that was beautifully broken down for us, thank you. and a beautiful showcasing of the anxiety that's always under the surface of reality by van gogh. thats the feeling i get from it at least

@gammazzz3894 5 лет назад

like feeling trapped by the nonstop experience itself

@milkt3a943 5 лет назад

I love this painting its not ugly at all

@caleb1rshelton 4 года назад

I love this piece. I find it calming.

@steve154life 5 лет назад

I also haft 4 Claude Monet grouch paintings one iz house of parliament from 1901 and a Windy Day which waz in the salon, waterlily and Japanese bridge from 1899 .and one water colour of San Giorgio of magori @sunset in 1908

@marcosm5183 3 года назад

It's some days before new years and I'm musing and pondering gouging my eyes out.

@webcityguymyclubb4032 2 года назад

I think Van Gogh was painting a picture of his own personal hell. These’s no escape from this cafe. It is scary to even contemplate walking into. It’s like the mouth of some huge beast yawning open - not a perty picture, lol. I believe he painted it to exorcize his fear of “losing his mind” - but it backfired by showing him his impending ruin too clearly. I bet he hid it from his own view.

@dandelion6692 4 года назад

he breathe life in every piece he has made that's why it has a life of its own.

@Fife178 4 года назад

When you create a juxtaposition between the two paintings like that, it's like you are creating a distinction between the tumultouous inner works of the mind versus the reality of the world outside of it. Almost to say that maybe the interior painting is Van Gogh's mind and the outside paintings are where he finds escapism in the real world.

@o0463 4 года назад

That painting is like that David Lynch movie ,,Rabbits,,

@nopleasestop8390 4 года назад

Anyone watch the vincent van goghs movie that was made 10 out of ten great and interesting filming techniques made me cry

@beinerthchitivamachado874 4 года назад

What's the name of the film?

@spark1484 5 лет назад

Nerdwriter. At some point in the future you should write a book on a video essay and how to effectively use both verbal language and visual images for message delivery. This will be an important subject matter that should be taught in primary education in the 21st century

@Ceshua 5 лет назад

"I'm gonna build a wall" -Donald Trump

@supergamer303 4 года назад

0:27 oh wow, it changes the feel alot huh

@Madgirlwithatumblr 4 года назад

Am i literally the only one who finds the painting strangely calm and comforting?? What does that say about my mental health?

@ComposerKuandohan 4 года назад

No wonder I always feel attacked on Christmas, it’s the Red and Green!

@sibamboportraits 5 лет назад

You're one of my best narrators and storyteller. You make anything sound cool. Always look forward to watching your vids. Keep it up!!!

@wuh-huw9950 5 лет назад

I actually like it. Feels cozy.

@BlackBeanChicken 5 лет назад

Thanks love the info. I was in Arles 3 weeks ago and saw most of the plaques.

@henriqueoliveira3872 5 лет назад

Please do more of painting videos there just perfect

@escherianprincess 5 лет назад

after this explanation I got so claustrophobic when you showed it the last time I literally flinched and gasped for air.

@samfilmkid 3 года назад

This painting is brilliantly used by Patton Oswalt in his book “Silver Screen Fiend.” He uses the term “Night Cafe” to describe places you enter and come out of forever changed, given that this painting marked a change in Van Gogh’s artistry for the rest of his life. Which sadly turned out to be not that long.

@HorribleDoodles 5 лет назад

I see something new in his paintings every time I look. Loved the video!

@skinni_the_P00hBear 3 года назад

I recently got this huge tapestry of the exterior cafe painting. Only I have nowhere on my wall to put it 😂

@heygirl6386 5 лет назад

“ _belence_ “ 4:08

@markotokar 5 лет назад

Another please!!! It has been over a month!!

@rahagh1001 4 года назад

What i notice first: The room is...round. Everything feels round Whatever is on the wall perhaps a painting feels like a portal to hell and the bar owner looks straight at you in such a creepy scary way it is as if van gogh was feeling too down to pay attention or bother with details again that bar owner woulda got it in the eye if i was actually there and he was actually looking at me like that

@ambrose7196 3 года назад

I wish I could describe pairings as well as this guy does

@CloudColumncat 3 года назад

Van's outside of cafe : feel good Van's inside of cafe : booooring What he needed wasn't just encouragement, he might have needed someone's sincere recognition'periodically'. Among those who paint a picture, those who are skilled and attract attention are praised by tens of thousands of followers even in the past or today, but for those who don't know how to do that, such a world is still a bitter and boring world. At least he didn't stop drawing because he had the ability he knew himself.

@jagjigosen9691 3 года назад

This gives me an uneasy feeling in my chest

@midgey8857 3 года назад

It feels like one of those liminal space images, something just doesn't feel... right

@rociopch4982 3 года назад

I swear I've dreamt with that place at least once.

@JS-vp6wg 5 лет назад

The more deep i get into the study of van gogh the more fascinated i am I honestly feel like i could do a phd just on van gogh

@artaddict7513 4 года назад

when you know exactly how a painting makes you feel, it's too "perfect" to be a masterpiece. That unknown unsettlement is what's captivating about the bar with character rather than the "good night with friends under the stars" ... never would have known this painting is considered an "ugly masterpiece"

@Do-si 4 года назад

love the music play..

@donovanreimer2324 4 года назад

What an incredible analysis. Thank you for your time on this.

@SebastianTinajero 5 лет назад

These are my favorite videos of yours

@rodneydowney2561 4 года назад

Reminds me of Hopper's Nighthawks.

@dogeboy9271 4 года назад

I truly do not find it ugly.

@deadatmyage 5 лет назад

thank you for making paintings come alive!

@atari_k1 4 года назад

It's funny how he romanticises other paintings and makes the 'ugly' one feel horrible. I think that threw me off in convincing me it was ugly

@daisy-zh7gk 4 года назад

This is an incredible analysis!! beautiful video, too. its the painting Tenesee Williams references in the stage directions of the poker night scene of his play A Streetcar Named Desireand this has made the whole scene so much more poignant! I love this so much