Caillebottes Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebottes work, Paris Street; Rainy Day, is an oil on canvas painting measuring seven feet, ten inches by six feet, one inches.
As mentioned previously, the art work is painted with oil on a large canvas. From a distance the brushstrokes are hardly visible in the painting. There appears to be little, if any, impasto evident. Upon closer inspection, the texture of the brushstrokes can be described as grainy and the lines dividing objects are not as crisp. The painting is fairly large. Being six feet tall, the figures in the foreground are not life-size but are still around four feet tall. The size of the painting could affect how the viewer sees the wide boulevard as it appears as though the viewer is standing in the street among …show more content…
Additionally, several of them carry gray umbrellas above their heads. The two most prominent figures appear in the right end of the painting, framed between a light post and a red wall. They are a man and a woman. The man carries an umbrella and is wearing a top hat. The woman beside him also walks beneath the shelter of the umbrella and holds onto the man’s left arm. The man in addition to being shown in a top hat, is also wearing a muted brown pair of trousers, a button-down white undershirt and bowtie, a waistcoat as well as an un-buttoned dark gray overcoat. The other men in the painted are dressed similarly, with the addition of dress shoes that are not shown on the man mentioned previously. The woman holding onto the man’s arm wears a long dress. The texture of the trim of her dress painted by Caillebotte seems to represent fur of some kind. The woman’s hair is pulled up in a bundle on the top of her head. In addition, she wears a thin veil over her face. In her earlobe is an earring of a bright stone—possibly a diamond. Her hands, unlike the mans, are covered by black gloves. There is a juxtaposition between the number of figures and their overlap. There is little overlap of the figures and they are all spaced out away from one another throughout the scene. Most figures are alone, while a few are in pairs of two. None of the figures in the painting look directly forward, at the viewer. The woman in the front looks towards the man beside her, but he looks at something unseen in the distance. Many of the other figures look down towards the street or their faces are not visible at all. The third figure closest to the front is turned away from the viewer and is cut off by the end of the
As mentioned previously, the art work is painted with oil on a large canvas. From a distance the brushstrokes are hardly visible in the painting. There appears to be little, if any, impasto evident. Upon closer inspection, the texture of the brushstrokes can be described as grainy and the lines dividing objects are not as crisp. The painting is fairly large. Being six feet tall, the figures in the foreground are not life-size but are still around four feet tall. The size of the painting could affect how the viewer sees the wide boulevard as it appears as though the viewer is standing in the street among …show more content…
Additionally, several of them carry gray umbrellas above their heads. The two most prominent figures appear in the right end of the painting, framed between a light post and a red wall. They are a man and a woman. The man carries an umbrella and is wearing a top hat. The woman beside him also walks beneath the shelter of the umbrella and holds onto the man’s left arm. The man in addition to being shown in a top hat, is also wearing a muted brown pair of trousers, a button-down white undershirt and bowtie, a waistcoat as well as an un-buttoned dark gray overcoat. The other men in the painted are dressed similarly, with the addition of dress shoes that are not shown on the man mentioned previously. The woman holding onto the man’s arm wears a long dress. The texture of the trim of her dress painted by Caillebotte seems to represent fur of some kind. The woman’s hair is pulled up in a bundle on the top of her head. In addition, she wears a thin veil over her face. In her earlobe is an earring of a bright stone—possibly a diamond. Her hands, unlike the mans, are covered by black gloves. There is a juxtaposition between the number of figures and their overlap. There is little overlap of the figures and they are all spaced out away from one another throughout the scene. Most figures are alone, while a few are in pairs of two. None of the figures in the painting look directly forward, at the viewer. The woman in the front looks towards the man beside her, but he looks at something unseen in the distance. Many of the other figures look down towards the street or their faces are not visible at all. The third figure closest to the front is turned away from the viewer and is cut off by the end of the