Man I’m so glad I found this channel. 👍

I also notice the chairs are turned around to welcome us into the painting. What a great painting to use as a lesson. This was so interesting I hope you will do more of these in the future. Thanks for this.    tom

Thank you Sir ' as u have Brilliantly explained every aspect - angle of van gogh café terrace at night.

Hi guys I used to be with you so great to see you again

Really enjoyed this tutorial, especially as I admire Van Gogh. Thanks

Thank you for a brilliant critique of this lovely painting.  It’s my favourite van Gogh as it happens.  I couldn’t explain before why I like it so much but now I’ve got a much better idea of why I’m drawn to it.  I think the ideas you discussed are general, I.e. we can apply them to any drawing or painting.  Fantastic!

Great analysis! Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists & my mom had 3 of his paintings in my house when I was growing up; Sunflowers, Boat on the ocean, & Terrace (my favorite). As a child, I didn't understand why he used so many choppy brush marks, but when I studied art in college & learned more about how artists were trying to express movement around the advent of photography, I learned that Van Gogh was trying to express how the stars in the sky, for example, sparkled by repeating those brush marks around them. (He also used thick brush stokes - that is, lots of paint with each application - & his brother told him not to do that saying it was "a waste of paint"...[mind you, he used to buy Vincent's paint for him because Vincent struggled financially, so this wasn't necessarily for the purpose of giving him an "artistic critique". Vincent loved his older brother, Theo, dearly though & told him it was just the way he saw it in his mind & couldn't paint it any other way, though it continued to aggravate Theo.]

We were lucky enough to see his exhibit at LACMA (the LA County Museum of Art) when it came out in the last decade or so, & got really close up to the painting to see those brush stokes.

I love the fact that Vincent included those 2 figures on the Terrace (light & dark as in reference to Jesus & Judas) & wasn't aware of this before... in fact, I hadn't even noticed the dark figure in the doorway before at all & think it's genius to have placed him there, IN PURE LIGHT, to represent "a bad charachter".
My mother & I both majored in Fine Arts, & I'm going to point that out to her today.

I remember when I got a book on his artwork, examining the color usage in the street, & being so surprised at how much red was used in it.

Thanks again for this review! I really enjoyed it & would love to see more like this on his paintings as well as other artists such as Modigliani, Matisse, Monet, Serat ...

Amazing critique! Loved hearing your views, both technical and romantic.

Thank you 😊. I always learn something when I watch your videos.

It was fantastic. I noticed some aspects of this masterpiece that I had not noticed before. Thank you.

I learned so much from this short video, it was very interesting and eye-opening. I’m a beginner with no formal art training, so this is especially useful for me. Thank you very much for this critique!

At first glance, I didn't notice the tree b/c the yellow really pulls you in but once you pointed it out, there's an exhilarating feeling to it because of its contrast with the yellow light

Thank you for sharing.

There is so much good analysis in this and other critiques that Matt has done at the Virtual Instructor website! Watching this type of analysis on many types of media and art objects at the website has helped me as much as the lessons there for the past two years. Thank you so much for these.

Wonderful! I loved your video. I hope to see more videos like this one. You are one of the best on youtube who make art content. I show your videos to my students and both me and them have been learning a lot.

Excellent explanations 😊

This was so interesting and explained in a way that is easy to understand. I am a novice and just returned to drawing and painting after many many years of being away from it.  I started watching art related tutorials a couple of months ago and this is the first time commenting. I just have to say that this is the best and most informative channel I have found! I really appreciate being able to learn from an expert  who is also great at presentation!

Incredible analysis.  Thank you very much.❤

Amazing Sir 👌👌👌👌

I'm doing a project on this piece and this was a really great source to come across! I really appreciate how informative and well-produced this is