Les Grands Boulevard And La Grande Jatte

As its name would suggest, this painting features everyday people on the train just trying to make their way to their destination. I like the timelessness of the people depicted on the train, how the posture would suggest movement, the dominance portrayed in one man foot to further show his sense of equilibrium, the harsh artificial lighting so common on the subway, some reading a new paper while others are sleeping,

One of the busiest marketplaces in Paris, Les Halles, is a global location where everyone came to sell their goods. In Emile Zola’s Belly of Paris, the abundance of food at Les Halles is described, through the eyes of Florent, “At the intersection of rue Halles were mountains of cabbages. At the other end, where pointe Saint-Eustache intersects rue Rambuteau, the route was blocked by swollen-bellied orange pumpkins crawling across the ground in two lines. The varnished brown of onions shone here and there in baskets and the blood red heaps of tomatoes, the muted yellow of cucumbers, and the deep purple of eggplants” (Zola 29). The low class, middle class, and the high class bought and sold different foods in Les Halles and had a

I chose A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Geroges Seurat for my critical analysis. When I was in 4th grade, my gifted class studied this artwork by Seurat. After studying this piece, we were allowed to replicate A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in the form of a mural in one of the hallways. I was beyond fascinated with the different colored “dots” we were using, and how in the end it all came together as a whole. Seurat’s pointillism technique catches my eye each time I see a piece of his, and to this day, I am in awe of this particular piece.

1884). The painting, like most of Renoir’s work, has a female subject. The girl is the only visible person or focus in the art. Her red hair serves as a contrast from the muted background, which is outdoors in Renoir’s usual style. It has a mixture of bright and darker colors and the individual brush strokes can be seen. The painting features everyday life, a common factor in paintings by Renoir. The girl is wearing a hat, running her fingers through her hair, and looking directly at the viewer of the artwork. This is similar to many of Renoir’s pieces from later in his

Art Critique | A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat | Emma Steinbrecker     Seurat is known and recognized for his attention to detail and intricate designs. His famous painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is no exception. With the intricacy and detail devoted to this image, it is a favorite of mine. He created an intriguing design with a variety of people existing in an open space surrounded by a plethora of trees and encapsulated by the edge of a river.

“Paris Street; Rainy Day” is an oil painting by Gustave Caillebotte. It does use thin lines to create shapes such as buildings, people, and umbrellas. Additionally, it has light coming from the sky but very subtly, for it is cloudy and raining. Because it is raining Gustave gave the men and women walking through the streets of paris an umbrella casting shadows on their face. There is also a shadow seen in the reflection of the water on the streets.

Paris Street; Rainy Day places us upon a rain-soaked sidewalk directly in front the Place de Dublin, an intersection made up of eight streets near the Gare St. Lazare. A fashionably dressed bourgeois couple who are often referred to as ‘Flaneur’s’ are the major figures in the painting as they politely avert their eyes from the viewer, seemingly unaware of what will be a collision of umbrellas with the man entering

broad range of Parisian types" (26). By McArthur stating so, it can be observed in the painting that

The buildings are the most detailed part of the art in my opinion. The next thing that appeals to me in this art is the cars and the carriages on the street. They also spark a somewhat interest to me, because the use of yellow that stands out in the picture. The focal point of the painting is the busy street itself in the urban city, in where there are a lot of cars, carriages, and people walking in the street. The foreground of the painting is the buildings. They are the closest thing that is zoomed in the painting. There are many things in the background, such as the sky, the buildings, the people, the cars and carriages, and the street lamps. The choice of the colors by the artist is a little damp and dull, but that is how the winter feel and looks like. In this painting, he uses a lot of white paint that make the painting pop out more. The type of paint that the artist uses is oil paint. The relationship to the viewer in the painting is that this painting was inspired by what it looked like outside his hotel room surrounding

Gustave Caillebotte addressed at least three senses in his painting, Paris Street, Rainy Day. Cobblestones and sidewalks appeared slick with rain and water puddled in the cracks between the stones. People carried shiny umbrellas and were bundled up in coats against the chill of a rainy day with barely enough sun to cast shadows. Hunkered down beneath his umbrella, as if he wanted to get to his destination without looking at his surroundings, the man in the left center of the painting walked briskly. Only the people in the foreground appeared comfortable enough to take in their surroundings. Buildings, streets, umbrellas, even clothing appears as grey shading into black. The flesh tones of the hands and faces and the reds and greens of the

Cezanne started by reaching toward 'Classicism by using architectural forms, the lines and opening up the central space bring our eye to the center.'-Khan, 2015 This makes us focus on the overall picture. While Michelangelo focused on the form and each aspect, Cezanne focused on a the still and captured the female form in a consistent manner. Using warm and cool colors for the bodies, one can feel as though he is looking at the past and not nudes but on the form of color and texture.

He was alive and painted during the time when Claude Monet had introduced and brought more attention to the impressionism movement. Although Renoir wasn’t the main or most famous and distinct impressionist artist, he differed from the others and had a unique way of portraying his art. Renoir included the usage bright and dark colors in his paintings. “Flickering lights” were also used by Renoir. Broad, uneven brush strokes were common in his art, and most paintings took place outdoors with everyday people included. These techniques could be frequently seen in Renoir’s

The work I choose was Le Havre: Le Grande Quai, by Maurice de Vlaminck. The artwork was created in 1906 during the “Modern Architecture” era and the “Expressionist Movement” (Saint Louis Art Museum). The painting was created on location at the port of Le Havre in northwestern France (Maurice De Vlaminck). The artwork was created on a medium of oil on canvas, utilizing the primary colors along with white for contrast. Scaling of the work is proportional or close to true to life, there is nothing that appears to be prominent or grander in scale. This is similar in scale to what you would see if someone had taken a photo of the port.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a highly regarded French painter, who was very well known for his leading role in Impressionist painting. The Garden in Rue Cortot, Montmartre, is a great example of impressionism because of its bright colors and lifelike details. Upon first viewing this painting, the viewer’s eyes are immediately drawn to the vivid colors of the flowers in the foreground of the painting. Renoir paints the foreground overwhelmingly busy which causes the viewer’s eyes to be filled with the beauty of nature in the first glance of the painting, Despite how busy it is,

The Large Bathers, 1898-1905 is the largest of Paul Cezanne's pictures and has been cited as an example of his ideal of composition and his restoration of classic monumentality after its lapse during the nineteenth century. Cézanne’s great achievement forced the young Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists to contend with the implications of Cézanne’s art. This essay will discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are considered as inspired by and breaking free of The Large Bathers.