The painting which I decided to do my paper on is called ‘The Absinthe Drinkers’, it was made in the year 1881 by a French painter who is still very revered, his name is Jean Francois Raffaelli. This work of art is an oil on canvas painting with the dimension of 110.2 *110.2 cm which is made for the private collection, known as Salons in French. A Salon was a meeting of rich aristocrats of France. At the legions of honors we passed by this painting and I just fell in love with the scene presented inside of it. The first thing which came to my mind when I saw this painting was a hopeless depressed France, stuck in poverty. What intrigued me much about the painting was the fact that the two men inside of the painting where drinking Absinthe which is a very luxurious alcoholic drink, yet the two people who were drinking it seemed a little poor, as I noted that by looking at their …show more content…
shoes. I couldn’t find much more information about it inside of the museum unfortunately. But I got very lucky to know that some of the information which I needed was online on the Legion of Honor’s website. The website art directory told me a lot about the painter Raffaelli, I found much of his background information on the website.
The website stated that, “The painter, etcher, lithographer, illustrator, and sculptor Jean-François Raffaelli was born on April 20, 1850 in Paris. Before Raffaelli dedicated himself to painting under Jean-Léon Gerome (1824 – 1904) in art class, he became an actor.”(Art directory) Back in the days not everybody could afford high class drink like absinthe, Even though they look fairly poor. The painting depicts some absinthe drinkers, men in frock coats and top hats are seated at a table. The upper left of the frame allows a view of the country side with the house clearly seen on top left. When i looked at the two chairs by the side it made me think if they were waiting for someone as they were not shown talking in the painting. He uses techniques to tell that that the house is built on a hill, the factors that tell the viewer is that both of the people sitting in the painting look serious like they are having a serious discussion or they are stressed about
something. Although not counted among the Impressionists, the Realist Raffaelli nonetheless exhibited the Absinthe Drinkers (at the invitation of Degas, who sought to increase the number of figural painters involved) at the sixth Impressionist group show in 1881.There it caused a sensation due to its gritty imagery and portrayal of the devastating effects of addiction to the potent drink absinthe. Raffaelli was in fact one of the few painters who managed to exhibit at both the Salon and with the Impressionists. I like how the painter puts two of them in a painting and creates a wonderful imagery around them, which is going in depth on the upper left corner. Mostly he uses the color yellow and still successfully separates the floor from the wall. There has to be a reason for why he painted one glass full and the other glass half. I feel like he is trying to represent a sense of unfairness or imbalance in the community of France. That idea led me to think that the fact that the man with the full glass of Alcohol is looking towards the street. While the man with the half glass of Alcohol is slanted more towards the other man, he seems more focused. Yet both of the men seem a little drunk and a bit lost inside of their own thoughts. Ultimately I would love to conclude by saying that this painting was really catchy for me and actually makes me want to keep looking at it and find more things in it. Absinthe being one of the expensive drinks is being drunk by two people in the painting who look fairly poor. The author is trying to sow the depth in the picture by showing the house on the hill on the top left side of the painting.
In the Florence and the early renaissance, we have the greatest master of art like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and others. In this period of time the painters almost never show their emotions or feelings, they were more focused on indulging the churches and the wealthy people. In The renaissance period the art provides the work of art with ideal, intangible qualities, giving it a beauty and significance greater and more permanent than that actually found in the modern art. Florence and the early renaissance, the art become very valued where every artist was trying to create art forms consistent with the appearance of the beauty or elegance in a natural perspective. However, Renaissance art seems to focus more on the human as an individual, while Wayne White art takes a broader picture with no humans whatsoever; Wayne, modern three dimensional arts often utilizes a style of painting more abstract than Renaissance art. At this point in the semester these two aspects of abstract painting and the early renaissance artwork have significant roles in the paintings. Wayne White brings unrealistic concepts that provoke a new theme of art, but nevertheless the artistic creations of the piece of art during early renaissance still represent the highest of attainment in the history of
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Cullen, Alison. “From the Trivial to the True: The French Revolution and Painting”. Kirsch Computing ECFS. Web. 5th May 2013.
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