Samuel
Altidor
Professor
D. Lemeh
ARH2000
07
June 2013
Blog
Entry 6
This
painting depicts a beautiful bartender in a bar at Folies-Bergère. She seems so
detached, so melancholic that I wonder what she’s doing working in that
particular establishment since she is so unhappy with the work. If you look
like reflection in the mirror behind the bartender you can see a vast crowd,
which tells that it was perhaps a very busy day. However she seems so
distracter, so uninterested in doing any work. What more perplexing is her
reflection in the mirror with what looks like a patron of the bar. It’s
perplexing because the reflection seems to be way off. While in the portraits
she seems to be looking directly at the viewer in the painting, in her
reflection she seems to be talking with a patron of the bar like a “real”
bartender should. Maybe the artist is trying to contrast what that bartender - who
does not seem to enjoy her job – should be doing and what she’s doing in
reality.
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