Cafe Neon (Night)

Cafe Neon (Night) (Greek: Καφενείον το Νέον (Νύχτα)) is an oil painting by Yannis Tsarouchis created between 1965 and 1966.

[2] The theme of "coffee shops" has occupied Tsarouhis repeatedly within the overall interest to study the contemporary urban landscape, not only in space but also as a social context and version of an overall lifestyle.

The "Cafes" as compositions thus work for the artist as a kind of privileged case study to give the opportunity to experiment around a number of issues, which concern the painting steadily: his interest in the study of the history of art; case reports in the facades as a scenographic role during the baroque period; or the timelessness and rhythmic repetitions that can be associated with his interest in Byzantine art; the meeting of set design and direction by painting, printing of architectural elements, their geometry, and their organization in axes allow the artist to experiment with synthetic values of removal.

The debate on this project is very interesting and the following point of view: while the cafe Neon is a clearly document work is one of the essential formalities abstract Greek art in painting, in terms of direct or indirect references incorporating the artistic values and deeper metaphysical artists such as Piet Mondrian.

The café atmosphere reminiscent of similar scenes of Edward Hopper, targeting and achieving just the visual transcription of the experience.