This painting is neither about historical moments nor featuring important subject matters. The work simply depicts the reality and social life of people back in the days. The background is a corner in a club, people are there for entertainment, the men are enjoying themselves chatting and drinking. Whereas, women in the painting are likely to be prostitutes or lady of escort services, judging by their pompous outfit and accessories. Some of them sit in front of the table companying men while others are wandering around, looking in the mirror fixing their headpiece.

Throughout the painting, the artist dominantly used dull neutral colors like black, grey, brown with hint of teal hear and there. The artist restricted him/herself from using wide range of bold colors in order to avoid having color itself as the main focus of the painting, but the message behind. You will noticed that the artist painted the face of the woman in the right bottom corner with teal and pale white contrasting with her black dress, the purpose is to create deliberate emphasis which grasp the attention of the audience to the facial expression of her. Although the use of teal color suggests peacefulness and calm, looking into her eyes, you will sense that she is actually trying to tell people something as if she is very tired and helpless.
Summary: Color has taken up a crucial position in this painting that affect audience’s feeling towards it.

Rather than using intense solid colors, the artist incorporated moderate lightness and darkness in the painting so as to create value preventing it to be flat looking. By comparing the color of the faces, it could be determined that the light source comes from the right. You can see that the face of the woman on the right bottom corner, the man and woman around the table in diagonal, their face are also hit by the light source. Therefore their