Paris street, Rainy day - Gustave Caillebotte This essay is basically taking a detailed look about the work of an artist named Caillebotte.
_Paris Street, Rainy day_
-_Gustave Caillebotte_
In this Oil on canvas painting Gustave Caillebotte is revealing the amazing talent he got to turn a real life picture into a painting. In this painting _Paris Street, Rainy day_ the artist selected a complex intersection in Paris near Saint Lazare train station. This painting was painted during the time Napoleon III government was transforming old streets into new system. It was first exhibited in 1887 and it 's now exhibiting at the art institute of Chicago. The general scene that 's taking place in the painting is there is couple of people absorbed in their own world walking through the rain. It is such a beautiful painting it is guaranteed to catch our attention. Every little detail Caillebotte used to make this painting beautiful is terrific. _Paris Street, Rainy day_ is painted using oil on canvas. "It is the process of painting with pigments that bound with medium of drying oil mainly linseed oil."(Wikipedia) In this paper we are going to look at the extreme details of such a beautiful paintings and the technique Caillebotte used to create this master piece.
In his master piece _Paris Street, Rainy day_ Gustave Caillebotte did a terrific job of using the lamp post as a vertical line and the horizon as a horizontal line therefore dividing the picture into four insets. The lamp post also seems to divide the fore ground from back ground. This minor detail that he uses to divide the picture plays a very important role in making his master piece beautiful. He uses expressive soft sensual lines as well as a little bit of classical lines in the painting. He uses a variety of outlines on the people who is walking by and on the buildings in the background. He also uses contour lines on the tiles and on the coat. The line of sight plays a significant role in this painting. The two people on the foreground are looking to their right which makes us the viewers of the painting wonder what they are looking at. The way
-_Gustave Caillebotte_
In this Oil on canvas painting Gustave Caillebotte is revealing the amazing talent he got to turn a real life picture into a painting. In this painting _Paris Street, Rainy day_ the artist selected a complex intersection in Paris near Saint Lazare train station. This painting was painted during the time Napoleon III government was transforming old streets into new system. It was first exhibited in 1887 and it 's now exhibiting at the art institute of Chicago. The general scene that 's taking place in the painting is there is couple of people absorbed in their own world walking through the rain. It is such a beautiful painting it is guaranteed to catch our attention. Every little detail Caillebotte used to make this painting beautiful is terrific. _Paris Street, Rainy day_ is painted using oil on canvas. "It is the process of painting with pigments that bound with medium of drying oil mainly linseed oil."(Wikipedia) In this paper we are going to look at the extreme details of such a beautiful paintings and the technique Caillebotte used to create this master piece.
In his master piece _Paris Street, Rainy day_ Gustave Caillebotte did a terrific job of using the lamp post as a vertical line and the horizon as a horizontal line therefore dividing the picture into four insets. The lamp post also seems to divide the fore ground from back ground. This minor detail that he uses to divide the picture plays a very important role in making his master piece beautiful. He uses expressive soft sensual lines as well as a little bit of classical lines in the painting. He uses a variety of outlines on the people who is walking by and on the buildings in the background. He also uses contour lines on the tiles and on the coat. The line of sight plays a significant role in this painting. The two people on the foreground are looking to their right which makes us the viewers of the painting wonder what they are looking at. The way
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