Analysis Of Third Class Carriage

Third Class Carriage (Un Wagon de Troisieme Classe)

Degas states that, “Art is not what you see, but what you make other see”. Indeed, artist can create a work of art, but it doesn’t mean anything if no one can become inspired by it or see hidden meaning behind it. The painting has to make viewer easy to understand and feel same as what the artist expresses through by brushstroke and color. Third Class Carriage (Un Wagon de Troisieme Classe) which is painted by Honore Daumier in 1856-1858 series. The paint with 10 ¼ x 13 3/8 (26 x 33.9 cm). This painting was done in oil on panel with realism style. It located in Legion of Honor Museum San Francisco. Third Class Carriage is representing one of the Daumier most impressionist painting. The way he draws which imitates photography style with somber color and thin brushstroke.

Third Class Carriage with realism style which is painting real people in real life. Realism started around 1850, mid-19th century. Artists begin to question what fantasies the painters before were creating and wanted to reflect the time of hardship they were experiencing, to capture the real people of current times in real context. In the 1800’s people were very involved in the arts included

The painting usually drawing people look directly with the viewer but on Third Class Carriage, everyone has the empty looking, nobody looks at another and it doesn’t have any conversation on that train. Only looking at these gesture, these clothes, these eyes, these faces can tell a lot of things on that train. The different between lower class and high class, lower class with workaday concerns frozen in their face, express by their eyes. A painting is invested with an air of sadness. The color and light create a little lonely, empty atmosphere. By the way, the dull atmosphere goes with the undefined eyes of an old guys. It brings the indescribable