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‘Paint like Vincent: Café terrace at night‘

Guided Event (Maestro)

Saturday, 10th September,
18:00 - 21:30

difficulty:
70 CHF
Up to -20% for members
*You would like to come with a partner to paint this theme on two separate canvases that will line up. You will add 2 tickets in your cart.
Beginner / Experienced
English / German (CH)
3,5 hours
PIE Basel, Wallstrasse 14
Tabea Martin
All materials and a welcome cocktail included

This painting of a colorful outdoor view is a picturesque work, the vision of a relaxed spectator who enjoys the charm of his surrounding without any moral concern. It recalls Van Gogh's mood when he wrote that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." The color is more profuse and the eye wanders along the steeped or dove-tailed edges of neighboring areas - irregular shapes fitted to each other like a jigsaw puzzle design. To divide this space for long into a large object and background themes is difficult for the eyes; the distant and nearer parts are alike distinct. The yellow of the cafe plays against the blue-black of the remote street and the violet-blue of the foreground door, and, by a paradox of composition that helps to unify the work, at the strongest point of contrast the awning's blunt corner nearest to us touches the remote blue sky. Foreshortened lines that thrust into depth, like the lintel of the door, are strictly parallel to lines like the slope of the yellow awning and the roof of the house above, which lie in planes perpendicular to the first. For this roving, unengaged vision the upward dimension is no less important and expressive than the depth.

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