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Taking a look at the Van Gogh’s, we immediately arrive at one aspect of our fundamental question: what makes a painting famous?
Café Terrace at Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1888
One of van Gogh’s most famous paintings is Café Terrace at Night, but to tell you the truth I was somewhat underwhelmed. It’s smaller than you would think and it looks overworked. Much more impressed I was with Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun, which is less popular and looking at the photo I took of it, it’s beginning to dawn: Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun,  Two Cypresses. Saint-Rémy. June 1889 - Vincent van Gogh with all it’s subtle shades of yellow and yellow-ocre is much harder to digest by a camera than a painting like Café Terrace at Night, which it’s far more straightforward in terms of contrast. Because the camera loves this painting, it will look good in art books, posters, cards and on the Internet, contributing to it’s fame. Of course there’s more to it than just just “easy contrast”. While Toulouse de Lautrec’s images of Paris nightlife suggest the maker as an active participant, The Starry Night. Saint-Rémy. June 1889 Van Gogh’s nightlife scenes show him as an outsider. The people in the painting appear to be moving away from us and the intense yellow light over the terrace suggests emptiness and loneliness. The blue starry sky sits there both ominous and indifferent to the individual. Like Edvard Munch, Van Gogh often painted the solitude and desolation of the individual within a crowd. Café Terrace at Night is a view on the social life of the average citizen as seen through the eyes of a social outsider.Beach with Figures and Sea with a Ship. August 1882 - Vincent van Gogh , In the Jardin du Luxembourg. 1886 - Vincent van Gogh, Farmhouse in Provence, Arles. 1888 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions, The Olive Orchard. 1889 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions, Lilac Bush. May 1889, Irises. Sait-Rémy. May 1889,