Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-impressionist painter who had great influence on the twentieth century modern art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. First of all, I find this work very important because in some of the letters he wrote for his brother, he explains all his choices he made for this painting. In his writings, he examine all the process he went through and talks about deeply his purpose of distorting the perspective in order to get the feeling he wanted. He says "I had a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it... This time it's just simply my bedroom, only here color is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination."
Van Gogh did not really care about the exact represantion of the room but he was looking for something different. He wanted to convey the feeling of rest to his audiences and in order to do that, he didn't care about the perspective or the exaggeration of the colors. He did not really aim for the photographically exact picture of nature. Van Gogh just wanted to express what he felt.
"And that is all - there is nothing in this room with closed shutters. The broad lines of furniture, again must express absolute rest. Portraits of the wall, and a mirror and a towell and some clothes..."
It is known that the door on the left served the guest room he held prepared for Gauguin.
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