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The Café-Concert
''The Café-Concert'' is an 1879 painting by the French painter Édouard Manet, who often captured café scenes depicting social life at the end of the nineteenth century similar to those depicted in this painting. History The setting has been identified as the Brasserie Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart.Johnston, W., Nineteenth Century Art: From Romanticism to Art Nouveau, The Walters Art Gallery, 2000, p. 136, Manet shows us men and women in the new brasseries and cafes of Paris, which presents the viewer with an alternate view of new Parisian life.Herbert, R.L., Impressionists:Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society, Yale University Press, 1991, p. 2, Manet claimed he was painting or "sincere works". The women depicted in these scenes were courting certain risks with regards to perception and morality.Dolan, T., Perspectives on Manet, Ashgate, 2012, p. 23, Composition In ''The Café-Concert'', Manet presents a café-concert in which three central figures form a trian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil On Canvas
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhist artists in Afghanistan, and date back to the 7th century AD. Oil paint was later developed by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera and fresco, respectively, remained the usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
