Other articles where The Floor Scrapers is discussed: Gustave Caillebotte: …the modern urban environment, and The Floor Scrapers (1875) is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. Caillebotte’s masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877), uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a Paris intersection on a rainy day. Caillebotte also painted portraits and figure studies, boating…
Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist painter best known for his painting "Paris Street, Rainy Day." He was also a prominent collector of art.
Gustave Caillebotte (French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the artists known as...
Gustave Caillebotte, 19th-century French painter and art collector known for his paintings that combine Impressionist and academic techniques.
Show reveals the innovative vision of a painter, patron and gardener
Gustave Caillebotte. 1848-1894 Paris. . Vue de toits, effets de neige. View of rooftops, snow effects. 1878. Paris Orsay.
Following recent archaeological discoveries, the very first art subject was not a human but a warty pig, and soon after followed cave paintings of humans hunting pigs. Thus, the portrayal of humans in artworks, later followed by objects and nature, really is as old as art itself. Before the invention of camera obscura and long before the selfie era, painters were entrusted with creating the most accurate depictions of people. Even today, one of the most famous paintings, painted over 500 years ago, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, is deemed highly realistic even by today's portrait painting standards.
Show reveals the innovative vision of a painter, patron and gardener
Caillebotte paintings were dismissed for decades, despite that he was part of the Impressionist art movement. Why was he forgotten for so long?
El flâneur es un símbolo de la relación entre el individuo, la ciudad y la modernidad, que camina a gusto por los bulevares y las plazas sin un rumbo fijo. Los nuevos bulevares, además de generar empleo, facilitaron la circulación de mercancías y de dinero. Formaron un punto clave de exhibición pública de la riqueza burguesa
Painter and patron Gustave Caillebotte made a giant impact on the history of France when he invested in his Impressionist friends' artwork.
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Co-curators Mary Morton of the National Gallery and George Shackleford of the Kimbell, standing in front of 'Paris Street, Rainy Day,' 1877. Photo: Jerome Weeks The Kimbell Art Museum has become known for its blockbuster shows about Impressionism. But the one that opened this week in Fort Worth is different. It's not another sweeping history of the famous movement; it concentrates on just a single painter and a rare one: Gustave Caillebotte. Art & Seek's Jerome Weeks sat down with Justin Martin to explain why this Impressionist painter is worth all the attention. Jerome, you're all excited about a major new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum – an exhibition about a French Impressionist painter I've frankly never heard of. You're not the only one. Gustave Caillebotte is his name . Most people haven't heard of him because among the Impressionists, he's the odd man out. His name looks and sounds German, for one thing, and although it's true the Impressionists included an American,
Gustave Caillebotte (French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the artists known as...
Con mirabile lungimiranza, Caillebotte ordinò che i dipinti impressionisti non venissero dimenticati «in una soffitta o in un museo di provincia»
