Lively Life Scenes
The attempt to capture a moment fascinated the Impressionist painters of 19th century France. Their loose, rapid brushstrokes sought to create a snapshot of a scene before them. However, it can be argued that an element of realism is necessary to ensure that the artist is indeed a witness to a scene bursting with vitality. In the years that predated the emergence of the Impressionist artists, artists like Edouard Manet were moving away from a background in realism and using such scenes to redefine the artist’s ability to immortalize a moment. In his Music in the Tuileries (1862), the artist is present in the scene himself. As a fashionable and wealthy crowd gathers in this garden of Paris, the musicians aren’t even visible, but the viewer can almost hear the children playing or the strains of music over the incessant chattering of a gathered crowd. With Manet in the scene, off to the far left, clutching a cane - he offers an understanding of how to retell this lively life scene, he was there. Frantically painted faces suggest constant movement, whilst thick tree trunks separate the crowd only for a moment. In Artsper’s own selection of works, elbow your way through the works depicted by Michel Boulet, or indeed through the crowded scenes of Marco Santaniello as he conveys the energy from the everyday life of those who fill the streets.
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La campagne en fleur
Lucia Buccini
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
N° 890 Le château de Fortis.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2.4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
€1,000
What's Taking Them So Long?
Wencke Uhl
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,133
Prima Prima Ballerina
Wencke Uhl
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,226
Spiagge bianche study II
Antoine Rose
Photography - 88 x 200 x 1 cm Photography - 34.6 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
€12,600
Shade of blues
Antoine Rose
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€8,100
Un jour calme à la campagne
Lucia Buccini
Painting - 50 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Red Old School
Antoine Rose
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€4,200
Cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Paris
François Boisrond
Print - 21 x 27 x 0.2 cm Print - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
€350
Montmartre à paques
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Regard de St Eustache
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€900
N° 780 Champfleury 3. La plage des 'nudistes'.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
€800
Picnic In the Shade
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€325
L'un contre l'autre
Christian Raffin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
Pret pour la baignade
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,000
202 Mott Street, NY
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 67 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 26.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Passeig pel mercantic
Mónica Castanys
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,200
Shoes in Berlin
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 50 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
N°1274 Le désarroi de la mer Morte.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€550
N°1267 Bethléem. Basilique de la Nativité 2.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€580
N° 1264 Jérusalem. Mont Sion.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€560
Tropical Beauty
Christine Drummond
Painting - 91.4 x 45.7 x 10.2 cm Painting - 36 x 18 x 4 inch
€5,472
N° 1007 Bruscamente con bravura.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€800
Pampelonne
Antoine Rose
Photography - 77 x 175 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.3 x 68.9 x 0.2 inch
€10,000
N° 1254 Jérusalem. Méa Shéarim.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€540
L'hermine vertueuse
Sébastien Nadin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Perfect Stranger (The One Time Encounter)
Ephraim Udoka
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 29 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 x 1 inch
€788
Bologna Street Around City Centre
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€6,200
Stay puppy Wonder Woman
Rico Sab
Painting - 130 x 97 x 1.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.7 inch
€1,150
Cheminées de carnaval
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 70 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Southolm Street Londres
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 89 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Avalon-Tapestry 2
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Poisson bleu Opéra
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Notre-Dame et bateau mouche
Rudyard Heaton
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€900
N° 982 Gaspard de la nuit.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.9 inch
€800
N° 602 La Commanderie 1.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
€800