#corner of the moulin de la galette

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-Corner in the Moulin de la Galette-

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Le Moulin de la Galette (série de Van Gogh) par Olivier Boyer Via Flickr : Maîtres_de_l'affiche_Auguste_Roedel_Affiche (1896). fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_de_la_Galette Le moulin de la Galette est un terme générique : il désigne deux moulins dont le seul moulin à vent en état de marche de la butte Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris (France), sis rue Lepic ainsi que son moulin frère visible à l'angle de la rue Lepic et de la rue Girardon. L'ensemble figurait jadis un célèbre bal public ouvert par la famille de meuniers Debray, depuis le xixe siècle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Moulin de la Galette is a generic term: it designates two mills including the only working windmill on the Butte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located rue Lepic as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The ensemble once featured a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the 19th century.

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MWW Artwork of the Day (5/13/19) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette (1892) Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89.2 cm. National Gallery, Washington DC (Chester Dale Collection)

The painting was very likely made with Renoir's "Ball at the Moulin de la Galette" of 1876 in mind. In the 1870's, when Renoir went to the famous entertainment hall at the top of Montmartre, it was a thriving, open-air cafe concert where one spent weekend days drinking mulled wine or beer, chatting, and dancing. By 1889, the Moulin de la Galette had declined in popularity, supplanted by evening cafe concerts such as the Moulin Rouge.

Toulouse-Lautrec's painting takes us far from the sunlit, innocent world of Renoir. Against a back-drop of dancers, interpreted in caricature-like fashion, sit four figures. The most beautiful is the young woman at the lower left who turns away from the dance floor to look at something or someone outside of the picture. She is, in many ways, an archetypal woman of the fin de siecle, a distant muse lost in her own thoughts. Her superb profile almost glows, expressing her vulnerability in the raucous, almost vulgar, public setting.

The two other women, one older and the other thinner than the first woman, sit passively, waiting to be asked to dance. The single man behind them seems unaware of their presence. He extends his body over the railing as he looks intently beyond the picture plane, counteracting the gaze of the beautiful woman in the opposite direction. In this way, Toulouse-Lautrec suggests the ultimate isolation of urban dwellers like these, as well as the futility of their hopes and permanence of their loneliness.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, French) ~ A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892 

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Vincent van Gogh, Le café de nuit. 1888 / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, A corner of the Moulin de la Galette. 1892 / Édouard Manet, The Café-Concert. 1879 / Henri Gervex, Café Scene in Paris. 1877 / Edgar Degas, In a Café. 1873 / Jean Béraud, The Drinkers. 1908

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Corner in the Moulin de la Galette, 1892, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Medium: oil,cardboard

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A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1892.

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Week 2 Blog

After this week’s reading of chapter 2, Visual Elements, my understanding of art completely changed. For starters, I was introduced to the “observable properties of matter,” which are: line, shape, form, space, texture, value, lighting, color, and time. I would look at the art, prior to reading, and just see a picture. As I read I began to notice how colors contrasted or set a mood, how hatching and cross-hatching effected the appearance of a shape, and how my eyes would fill in the blanks for lines that didn’t exist, just to mention a few. I also realized that an artist’s goal is for their audience to keep their gaze on their piece. I particularly noticed this in, Auguste Renoir’s Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (figure 2.12). At first glance I saw people looking in different directions while dancing and conversing at a gathering. However, after learning about eyelines and reading the description, I realized that I began viewing the piece from the top right corner and followed the gaze of the dancers to the bottom right corner. Renoir used colors and lines to keep our eyes on the piece.

               The two most difficult sections for me to understand were time and color. Though color is “relatively” straight forward, I never thought about how colors interact and how they tell a story before. I began to appreciate how artists used colors to draw our attention to or away from the painting, like Jesus’ red robe did in Gerald David’s The Resurrection (figure 2.113). I also always thought that the primary colors were red, blue, and yellow, but learned that they are actually red, green, and blue-violet (page 132).  “Seeing” time in art is a skill I hope to improve upon as the class goes on, for it is still a difficult concept for me to grasp.

               Katherina Grosse is a very talented artist who utilizes many of the properties of matter in her works. She titles it “fiction” and based off of the color scheme, I think that is an appropriate title. I learned that she doesn’t create from an idea, but from a thought. One of my favorite pieces she did was the landscape piece. I also enjoy hiking, so it was particularly interesting to me, and reminded me of Olafur Eliasson’s Color Tunnel (figure 2.49) because it controlled our movements. As I read, I learned that gardens and paths were works of art and that the stones and plants were specifically placed to keep our eyes going where the artist wants us to look.

               I chose Andy Goldsworthy as my relevant artist because, after I decided that his Two River Stones Worked Around With Curved Sticks (figure 2.73) was one of my favorite pieces, I realized I recognized his name. In that art he uses twigs to symbolize how water circles around a stone. The texture of the twigs really stood out from the smoothness of the stones. My eyes went straight to the round stone, then to the twigs surrounding it, and next to the twigs sticking out, maintaining my interest in the piece.

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So I think I found the inspiration for Marinette’s bakery/house!

While researching for a fanfic I’m currently working on, I wanted to see just where Mari’s house is so I could accurately describe locations/distances and things. Her house is supposedly located at 12 Rue Gotlib, 21st arrondissement according to the wiki. 

Both Rue Gotlib and the 21st arrondissement are fictional; Paris only has 20 arrondissements and Rue Gotlib is named after Marcel Gotlib. Alright then, so far there were no real leads.

Then I came across another post on tumblr by @mirabug55 which noted something interesting. They posted an analysis of her house, a part of which noted that it was next to Place de Vosges (which the Park in Miraculous is based off of). It turns out that’s a real place!!

(image from @mirabug55 , post link here)

Based on the location of Mari’s house relative to Place de Vosges, I looked at buildings that could possibly be it. And I found one! 

Willy’s Boulangerie (located at 6-8 Rue du Pas de la Mule, according to Google Earth) is a 7-story building located on the corner of a street (with 2 crosswalks leading to it, just like the bakery). It is located, relative to Place de Vosges, exactly where Marinette’s house is and is close enough to walk (a la Gamer, but I’ll get to that later!) even if it isn’t directly adjacent as it is in the show. So not only do the location and architecture match, but the cherry on top is that it actually is a bakery. Just perfect!  

(All Street Images © 2017 Google.  If you want to see the perfection for yourselves, click here  for the Google Street View!)

When I had spent a good hour doing all this, I reread the Miraculous Wiki page for the bakery and found out.....that the bakery was probably based off Boulangerie du Moulin de la Galette (here on Google street view). *Sigh*. Just as I was convinced, it seemed like all was lost. I read, though, that this was never officially confirmed. It’s a tumblr thread (here) by @miraculeusecoccinelle. I now definitely believe that the exterior was based off of that bakery. I mean, LOOK at it. It’s a perfect match. (when I first saw a picture of it I thought it was located at Disneyland Paris and was an official bakery model lol) The couple that runs it is even mixed French/Asian, just like Tom and Sabine! Japanese is different from Chinese, but when TV rarely shows mixed race couples, it’s close enough to be a bit more than coincidence. It’s located in the 17th arrondissement, which is closer to the fictional 21st, but still far away from Place de Vosges (which is located between the third and fourth). Another detail is that their bakery actually does appear to have a balcony (like Mari’s), while Willy’s doesn’t look like it has one.

So where does this leave my new bakery theory? The Moulin de la Galette definitely meets the physical charachteristics-coloring, font of Boulangerie, and balcony-excepting the corner location (it’s in the middle of a long street) and proximity to Place de Vosges. It’s also surrounded by trees, which is cool, but there aren’t many next to Marinette’s house. Willie’s Boulangerie doesn’t match the physical description as well, but it shares its orientation on the streets and short walk to the Place with her house. 

My best hypothesis is that the creators of the show saw both (or more) bakeries and created a mishmosh of all of them to make Mari’s house-the design of Boulangerie du Moulin de la Galette with a slightly altered location based off of Willie’s. In reality, there isn’t any house that fits that description that close to the Place, but then again we don’t know the geography of the 21st arrondissement ;) .

Now that I’ve gotten that out, I present to you Times Miraculous Was In Place de Vosges.

(Episode images from Miraculous Wiki)

Why, hello there Volpina! (*inwardly screams* EVEN THE BENCHES ARE THE SAME! I’ve never seen a bench like this. Am I just being dumb? Are those common in France?)

Is anyone just realizing now WHY THE HECK IS ADRIEN MODELLING IN HIS NORMAL CLOTHES?! Doesn’t he have to model, like, a different outfit from the one he wears LITERALLY EVERY DAY? 

I mean, no disrespect to Louis XIII, but seriously, this park would be better with superheroes.

Told you we were getting back to Gamer! 

And it’s also from Mr Pigeon! 

Hope this has given all of you some food for thought! Of course, I don’t own Miraculous Ladybug or any of the other characters! For the official Miraculous Ladybug tumblr, click here! 

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Week Two-Visual Elements

Although it was very hard to understand, I liked reading about the color wheel on page 132-133. I also have never seen most of these artworks, so to see them all and learn about why the artist did certain things is very cool. My favorite, for example, was page 65. Before I had read about Auguste Renoir’s canvas painting, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, I started looking at the painting by glancing at the couple dancing by themselves, then followed their gaze down to the group seated at the table in the bottom right corner. I looked at the two women gazing at the man with his back to us, then was drawn by the drinks to look at the two scruffy looking men. They were also looking at the man, which drew me back to the mysterious man, who must’ve captivated them in an engaging story of which I longed to listen to.

I really enjoyed this weeks’ video. Although I felt it moved very slowly, I thought that the content was very interesting. I loved that even though it was at random, Katharina Grosse knew exactly what colors she wanted to spray paint the trees. I also loved how the trees connected from inside to outside through the window. It was amazing when I saw the snow on top of the colorful “driftwood” outside. It lightened the colors enough that it didn’t totally stand out in the white of the winter, yet it stood out enough to add color to the blanket of nothing. I probably liked the outside driftwood better than the trees inside, most likely because of the textures and sizing. It was cool how her sculpture also had another picture with the holes through it.

I think that the book and the video were definitely connected in many different ways, yet even the author seems to have his own opinion on art compared to the artist. The driftwood that Katharina Grosse used was using was Split Complementary color combinations, in my opinion.

The author that I chose to talk about was Jeff Koons. Jeff Koons is an American artist who started to emerge in the 1980’s, when he started to make art full time. The art piece that Koons made that I have chosen to talk about was the Balloon Dog. I remember watching Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and I saw the Balloon Dog bouncing in it, each bounce accompanied by a springy sound effect. I thought it was really cool. The sculpture looks like a balloon dog I would’ve just gotten at a carnival, even with the tie for the nose, and the edge of the tail. Even looking at it I fear that it will untwist and it will no longer be a balloon dog. I can also hear the balloon making a squeaking sound when I hold it. This is art piece is Monochromatic, three-dimensional, and it also seems a little dynamic to me because of my memories of it bouncing around.

Sources:

The Art of Seeing by Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher

http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Jeff-Koons/400578

http://www.jeffkoons.com/artwork/celebration/balloon-dog-0

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A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

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Le Moulin de la Galette (série de Van Gogh) par Olivier Boyer Via Flickr : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette Le moulin de la Galette est un terme générique : il désigne deux moulins dont le seul moulin à vent en état de marche de la butte Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris (France), sis rue Lepic ainsi que son moulin frère visible à l'angle de la rue Lepic et de la rue Girardon. L'ensemble figurait jadis un célèbre bal public ouvert par la famille de meuniers Debray, depuis le xixe siècle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Moulin de la Galette is a generic term: it designates two mills including the only working windmill on the Butte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located rue Lepic as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The ensemble once featured a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the 19th century.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette (1892) Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89.2 cm. National Gallery, Washington DC (Chester Dale Collection) — view on Instagram https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/62dd96440d748fad9b40de91cdd8cbbc/5B59952A/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/p640x640/30077085_1990588587848692_423721935617130496_n.jpg

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Le Moulin de la Galette (série de Van Gogh) par Olivier Boyer Via Flickr : Le moulin de Blute-Fin par Van Gogh (1886). fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette Le moulin de la Galette est un terme générique : il désigne deux moulins dont le seul moulin à vent en état de marche de la butte Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris (France), sis rue Lepic ainsi que son moulin frère visible à l'angle de la rue Lepic et de la rue Girardon. L'ensemble figurait jadis un célèbre bal public ouvert par la famille de meuniers Debray, depuis le xixe siècle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Moulin de la Galette is a generic term: it designates two mills including the only working windmill on the Butte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located rue Lepic as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The ensemble once featured a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the 19th century.

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Le Moulin de la Galette (série de Van Gogh) par Olivier Boyer Via Flickr : Le Moulin de Blute-Fin 1886 Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo (F273) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette Le moulin de la Galette est un terme générique : il désigne deux moulins dont le seul moulin à vent en état de marche de la butte Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris (France), sis rue Lepic ainsi que son moulin frère visible à l'angle de la rue Lepic et de la rue Girardon. L'ensemble figurait jadis un célèbre bal public ouvert par la famille de meuniers Debray, depuis le xixe siècle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Moulin de la Galette is a generic term: it designates two mills including the only working windmill on the Butte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located rue Lepic as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The ensemble once featured a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the 19th century.

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Le Moulin de la Galette (série de Van Gogh) par Olivier Boyer Via Flickr : La butte Montmartre ou Vue de Montmartre avec moulins 1886 Musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Pays-Bas (F266) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette Le moulin de la Galette est un terme générique : il désigne deux moulins dont le seul moulin à vent en état de marche de la butte Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris (France), sis rue Lepic ainsi que son moulin frère visible à l'angle de la rue Lepic et de la rue Girardon. L'ensemble figurait jadis un célèbre bal public ouvert par la famille de meuniers Debray, depuis le xixe siècle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Moulin de la Galette is a generic term: it designates two mills including the only working windmill on the Butte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located rue Lepic as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The ensemble once featured a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the 19th century.