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Women On A Terrace Cafe Painting Analysis

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‘Women on a Terrace Café’ is a painting by Degas, Edgar on year 1877 in French. It is drawn by pastel on monotype with a size of 54.5cm x 71.5cm. In this painting, there are some women sitting in a terrace café, and there are some waitress serving them. It is the main street outside the café and there are lots of passengers passing by. Atmospheric perspective is used in the painting. The lower part of the painting is describing the frontier part in readers’ point of view, and the upper part of the painting is describing the farer part in readers’ pointing of view. In the frontier part, there are columns to show it is the interior. The interior is suggested to be a café by the name of painting ‘Women on a Terrace Café’. In the farer part, there are buildings and road so it should be the main street. …show more content…

There are not much details showing there. There is a big box with a name on so it should be a shop. Big stroke lines is using here so the passenger are represented by the dark shadows. The background of the street is using big stroke line to show, so the whole background is blur. The dark shadows are getting blur towards the side of the painting, showing passengers ultimately are merged into the background. The background of the main street is rather dark. There are not much light in the main street. The light getting to the main street is from the residue of light from the shop inside the buildings. The residue of light lights onto the shadow of passengers. The shadow is in multi layers and It is showing numerous of passengers are passing by with the overlapping of shadows. It shows the street is busy and heavily packed with people. With little light sources, the upper part of the painting has a little range of

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