Chapter 5 Space: Gustave Caillebotte

Gustave Caillebotte was one of the lesser known art impressionists whose personal works were forgotten about until recently. GustaveCaillebotte was all together a recognized painter and a generous patron of the Impressionist movement. He was born in 1848, in a very rich family which made its fortune in textiles industry.Engineer by profession, but also former student of the Fine Arts School of Paris Gustave Caillebotte studied with Léon Bonnat, he met with other impressionists such as Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1874 and helped them organize their first group exhibition in Paris this same year. In Gustave Caillebotte`s artwork, he uses the complex illusion of real space that visually looks real. He also expresses  the different vanishing points in his artwork by organizing a complex array of parallel line impliying movement. Gustave Caillebotte`s  great concern for a realistic painting, his colored notes, and his treatment of light make him well a great Impressionist painter whose work is original and diverse. He illustrates actuality by relating the real world into his artwork. What I think is most interesting about Gustave Caillebotte`s painting, is that the few people that are in the painting does not represent how small the crowd is, but how spacious everyone is, and the rain is not coming down but everyone has umbrellas.