Title of Artwork: “At the Cafe-Concert”
Artwork by Edouard Manet
Year Created 1879
Summary of At the Cafe-Concert
The Café-Concert is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, who often painted café scenes depicting social life at the end of the 19th century, like the ones in this painting. This painting was done in 1879.
All About At the Cafe-Concert
In this case, the Brasserie Reichshoffen, which is on the Boulevard Rochechouart, has been named as the setting. Manet shows us men and women in the new brasseries and cafes in Paris. This gives the viewer a different look at how new Parisians live. When Manet was painting, he said that he was painting “uvres honest.” These pictures show women who were willing to take risks when it came to their appearance and morality.
In The Café-Concert, Manet shows a cafe-concert in which three main people form a triangle but are all working in different directions. Manet suggests that the scene of a cafe-concert, which is supposed to be casual, is one in which people are not together.
The waitress has a beer, the woman at the bar smokes a cigarette, and the man relaxes as he watches the show. The singer known as “La Belle Polonaise” is reflected in the mirror in the background of the painting.
It is said that the man inspires confidence because men, unlike women, can go to cafes without being afraid. The painting was posed and painted in a studio, but it looks like it was just done.
In this painting, ideas about how to put things together aren’t used. The figures of the people shown aren’t clearly defined, but they are modelled with brushstrokes. The colours are put on the canvas in a way that doesn’t build up layers of pigments and glazes on top of a dark background.
The Café-Concert is now being shown in Off the Wall, a show on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. A copy of the painting, which is part of the Walters Art Museum’s collection, will be on show at the CFG Community Bank (Fell’s Point). This is how it works: The National Gallery in London started the idea of bringing art outside in 2007.
Information Citations
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