Importance of Original Work of Art

This masterpiece was titled “Café Terrace on the Place du Forum. ” Gogh used a variety of color pigments like blue, green, yellow, white and green together with oil paints that appear to be dancing across the canvas in the process creating a very breathtaking masterpiece (Van Gogh Gallery, 2013). The different mixture of colors seems to be dancing across the canvas, which tends to produce pleasurable and incredible feeling. One can never get enough of this piece of art even by just staring at it from morning till evening. It appears that Van Gogh intended religion and light to play central and similar roles in the general functionality of the artwork. His father was a preacher, and so this had an impact on his work of painting (Hulsker, 1980).

This aspect was evident in the majority of the works that he produced that tended to portray a peaceful and serene environment that somehow brought out the attributes of a superior and inanimate being. For instance, most of his works included stars in the sky that always appeared to mesmerize and leave him in awe of with the thoughts of the infinite space connected to this being (God) that he spends the better part of childhood learning. In this painting, there is only one person in the entire picture who is dressed in White. Upon close observation, the individual, who is known as the servant, appears to bear a very close resemblance to the person of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of the Highest God.

Through computer-based media, the physical painting on café terrace has been replaced with electronic files to ensure distribution across networks. Through this, various artistes can debate and exchange opinions on how to come up with appealing paintings as well as replicating them easily. Computer-based media has as well enabled the access to art opinions and ideas to improve on them. The message that Van Gogh initially intended is the one that would still prevail, that even though no single person recognizes Jesus as the Messiah, He is still the creator and ruler of everything (Van Gogh, 2000). The portrait could be displayed in religious organizations as a display of the distractions that draw people away from their God. HN Abrams. Van Gogh Gallery.