Edouard Goerg jumped into Cubism just as it was hitting its peak.  Created by Pablo Picasso and George Braque in the early 1900s, Cubism, as stated by The Columbia Encyclopedia, “employs an analytical system in which the three-dimensional subject was fragmented and redefined within a shallow plane or within several interlocking and often transparent planes.”  The Bar, however, is rendered in a more popularized Cubist style since the forms are not fractured. 

The Bar depicts a crowd of people in a bar, playing cards, drinking, and socializing, through the use of shadows and geometric shapes.  Although it appears to be a “normal” café scene, this image contains several oddities.  Why is everyone wearing a coat and hat?  Could it be cold outside, or perhaps there is no heat inside.  Or maybe it is raining and there is no coat and hat check.  Why are only two sets of eyes visible: those of the bartender and those of the commanding man on the right?   Perhaps Goerg wanted to bar to seem mysterious, adding to this, the thought that none of the figures interact with one another.  We will never know the answers to these questions, but that only adds to the fascination of this impression.