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From the website: ‘This painting is of the artist’s own neighborhood, Montmartre, with a butcher shop in the foreground. In the background the Avenue de Clichy parts to the left, and the Avenue de Saint-Ouen to the right. This intersection is named La Fourche, “The Fork”. Identified today by its eponymous metro station, Anquetin’s apartment was just a few blocks further north. Perhaps he chose to feature this butcher shop because he passed by it every day, or because it reminded him of his home in Normandy where his parents owned a butcher shop. Anquetin chose a setting typical of city life, positioning the crowd close to the viewer. The diverse group of people, most of them depicted as mere silhouettes, form an anonymous mass. The time of day is dusk, the so-called l’heure bleue, when offices close, people flock to the streets, and dinner is being prepared at home. Anquetin was particularly keen to portray the various sources of artificial light: compare the yellow gas light with the warmer orange emanating from within the butcher’s shop. The warm tones create a powerful contrast to the stark blue colors, thereby animating and unifying the scenery while the wet sidewalk adds an atmospheric element.’

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From the website: ‘This painting is of the artist’s own neighborhood, Montmartre, with a butcher shop in the foreground. In the background the Avenue de Clichy parts to the left, and the Avenue de Saint-Ouen to the right. This intersection is named La Fourche, “The Fork”. Identified today by its eponymous metro station, Anquetin’s apartment was just a few blocks further north. Perhaps he chose to feature this butcher shop because he passed by it every day, or because it reminded him of his home in Normandy where his parents owned a butcher shop. Anquetin chose a setting typical of city life, positioning the crowd close to the viewer. The diverse group of people, most of them depicted as mere silhouettes, form an anonymous mass. The time of day is dusk, the so-called l’heure bleue, when offices close, people flock to the streets, and dinner is being prepared at home. Anquetin was particularly keen to portray the various sources of artificial light: compare the yellow gas light with the warmer orange emanating from within the butcher’s shop. The warm tones create a powerful contrast to the stark blue colors, thereby animating and unifying the scenery while the wet sidewalk adds an atmospheric element.’
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Your art history post for today: by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932), Avenue de Clichy, Five O’Clock in the Evening, 1887, oil on paper, mounted on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. More in ALT. #arthistory #Art
From the museum: ‘Louis Anquetin’s Avenue de Clichy (Street – Five O’ Clock in the Evening) has been praised as “the” masterpiece by the French artist. Created in 1887, this painting introduced a new artistic language depicting contemporary Parisian street life.
Here, Anquetin has moved away from the grim realism and impressionistic experiments still favored by many of his contemporaries, to push the aesthetic norms and boundaries of the time. With few colors, simplified forms, and a cropped image reminiscent of photographic snapshots, Anquetin positioned himself at the artistic vanguard of this period.’

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