Samuel
Altidor
Professor
D. Lemeh
ARH2000
07
June 2013
Blog
Entry 3
Word Counts: 204
A Rainy Day: Depicting a Street Full of Strangers
From all the paintings we viewed in
the past week, one in particular caught my attention: A Rainy Day by Gustave
Caillebotte (1877). What I found interesting about that painting is the fact
that even though it was painted in 1877, it could easily be depicting
metropolitan life in New York, Seattle, Detroit, and any other major cities in
the United States or all over the world. What By that I meant that when you
look at the painting you just see a bunch of strangers walking around, going
around their busy life; no one seems to acknowledge the presence of the others.
It’s like they all occupy the same space, but are living in a parallel
dimension where their paths are not crossing. Even the couple of in the
foreground seem to be complete strangers. The only reason the viewer would
think they’re together is because they’re sharing an umbrella. Even then, that
evidence is circumstantial at best. That something I observe a lot in
Metropolitan some metropolitan areas of the United States. People seem to know
each other is smaller towns.
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