Date of Award
5-2017
Document Type
Thesis open access
Department
Art
First Advisor
Michael Schreyach
Second Advisor
Kathryn O’Rourke
Abstract
This project investigates Gustave Caillebotte's techniques of constructing and arranging space. Previous scholarship has examined the artist's works in light of external, social, and historic evidence, therefore, my account will provide a detailed formal analysis of the works considering the role of the intended viewer. In looking closely Young Man Playing the Piano, Man at his Bath, and Pont de l’Europe, I argue that the viewpoint assigned to the beholder projects an irreconcilable vision of modernity. Caillebotte utilizes elements of representational painting--viewpoints, the illusion of time, the arrangement of people within space, and the built structures that describe space--in order to involve the viewer in an interaction that corresponds to the represented space.
Recommended Citation
Bremauntz Enriquez, Araceli, "Constructing Space and Framing the Beholder: Problems and Solutions in Gustave Caillebotte’s Compositions" (2017). Art and Art History Honors Theses. 4.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/art_honors/4