Gustave Caillebotte ( Blogi numero seitsemän)

hi 

i am going to be blogging about Gustave Caillebotte.  

now, i'm not big on art.  certain things i just don't understand, which is the beauty of art to some people, the whole not understanding is intriguing, they want to make their own stories up in their head and use their imagination but i'm not like that.  i need  to understand things. 

in my opinion, we don't live in a world that appreciates art.  now this is a generalization (which i hate making but just to prove my point...)   when most adolescents go home, they don't research famous artists and learn about them.  we dont learn it in school and it obviously doesn't affect our lives so why do it?  why take the time out of your busy schedule of managing work, school, family and friends, ,and/or any other things in your life to look up a dead artist (or living) and see what they contributed to society?

now im not trying to suck up but i think that one of the perks of humanities is to actually just take the time out to really appriciate art  what is art?  why create art? what has art done for you?  do you create art? these are questions we normally do not ask ourselves however it may be important.

OK SO BACK TO caillebotte 

gustave caillebotte  (my new favorite artist) was a french painter.  he was an impressionist.  he was born into an upper-class parisian family (owners of a textlie buisness).

• i like gustave's art because i feel like it is just real.  another reason why i liked him is because one of his paintings floor scrapers was considered vulgar.  i just like that it was considered vulgar to be honest... it shows he did what he wanted and didn't care what society thought about it.  i also find it ironic how he inherited a fortune when his parents died and was wealthy anyway and his first painting to be shown was a painting of two people doing manual labor- you wouldn't really expect it from a rich guy, you know? i find it interesting as well that labor was considered vulgar.  how real life was considered vulgar.
•  i like real. not that im judging but i dont like art that i cannot relate to.  in my opinion art is another way of looking at life.  in his painting paris street, rainy day it shows a man and woman (and others in the backround) in paris (that had just been taken over by napolean, thats why there are new buildings in the backround)and its raining.  it has to be the most simple common thing- everyone under umbrellas in the city on a rainy day but i really love it because its relateable and its real.  this happens and i love when you can capture life in a painting.
• i also like the city and urban life and the fact that gustave painted most of his paintings on city life interested me even more.

•  another thing i love about gustave's painting is that some are painted as if the viewer is viewing the scence from the top of a building looking down ( go to the link with the pictures and you'll see)  it gives me a message like whatever is going on in life isn't as important as you think it is OR stop and look at things from a different persective.
• he painted of rain and water (diving and bathing) it makes me, again think of life and water is a sign of renewal, or baptism in a biblical reference.  like there is room for redemption or a new sense of clean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Caillebotte    this link is some information about caillebotte

http://www.citysbest.com/new-york-city/news/2011/03/31/online-dating-in-new-york-city-2/   this link inspired me to write about this in the first place because it is an article on a woman who created a way of life off of caillebotte's painting paris street, rainy day.  ***** one thing the girl in the article said is

"Yes, there's always Paris, but there's also always rain."

i love that. shes absolutely right.  i am dying to go to paris number one.  and number two there will always be rain.  its something to think about in retrospect to life... no matter what happens, it will still rain

• (like the world still turns OR if you look at it in a negative way whatever good happens something bad will always happen OR if you look at it positively then the rain washes all the bad or the sin out and leaves a city filled with happiness and hope)

http://www.gustavcaillebotte.org/home-3-96-1-0.html   this link is awesome because it shows you all the paintings that he created.  i noticed that there is a pattern in his paintings.  he draws thing that are real like a man looking over a balcony or a nude woman lying on a couch and then there are paintings of flowers in vases or dead animals.  i find that interesting. 

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4.shtml#  this link is just some backround info on paris street, rainy day



what i felt - when i look at art i want to feel something.  when i looked a gustave's paintings i felt a but negative or sad. but not in a bad way  id rather art make me feel sad then happy, call me a freak but i feel more emotion when its negative.maybe its the color or just my perception but i like the way gustave's paintings made me feel.  i don't know  =p

here are some of gustave caillebotte's paintings! enjoy =)

 =) thanks for reading