“It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. “Normally, one draws and paints the painting during the daytime after the sketch. But I like to paint the thing immediately. It is true that in the darkness I can take a blue for a green, a blue lilac for a pink lilac, since it is hard to distinguish the quality of the tone. But it is the only way to get away from our conventional night with poor pale whitish light ….” Despite this affection for the night, van Gogh described Night Café, one of his best known night paintings, as “one of the ugliest I have done.” Though he loved the purity of the night outdoors, he loathed urban night life. “I have attempted to show that the café is a place where a man can ruin himself, become mad, commit a crime….” He moved away from Paris, where he lived with Theo, to Arles, “wishing to see a new light” and explore the calm.
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机译：文森特·梵高（Vincent van Gogh）给他的兄弟西奥（Theo）写道：“当场画上一个夜晚真是让我感到非常高兴。”通常情况下，素描后的白天，人们会绘画和绘画。但是我喜欢马上画东西。的确，在黑暗中我可以将蓝色换成绿色，将蓝色丁香换成粉红色丁香，因为很难区分音调的质量。但这是摆脱我们传统的夜晚的唯一途径，因为我们的苍白的白光不足……”尽管对夜晚产生了浓厚的兴趣，但梵高仍将他最著名的夜景画之一“夜咖啡馆”形容为“我做过的最丑陋的作品之一”。尽管他热爱户外的夜晚，但他讨厌城市的夜生活。 “我试图证明咖啡馆是一个人可以自残，发疯，犯罪……的地方。”他从与提奥（Theo）一起居住的巴黎搬到了阿尔勒（Arles），“希望看到新的曙光”并探索平静。
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