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Another music I’ve been enjoying tremendously.
Artist: Koop
Track Title: Koop Island Blues
Album: Koop Islands
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I have enjoyed it for a year now, thought to share the love..
you can listen to the rest of the tracks from this album in the link below, & if you enjoyed the music please go & buy it.
Artist: Emancipator
Track Title: Greenland
Album: Safe in the Steep Cliffs
Young Man at His Window is a large painting, exhibited first on impressionism exhibition in 1876. It is a large painting though not in real scale of life but one still has the sense of being in the room with this figure, being in a room in real city, there is a sense of loneliness & alienation.
It represents Caillebottes brother, being alone. he has obviously nothing to do, there is a sense of him being alone in spirit & alone in his mind. it seems to be summer, a daylight time of the day which might bring to our mind he must be out there in the city doing something, but he is not. actually he’s alone most likely in his room, and he is standing by the window looking down at the street. we feel all the barriers in his body motion, only his eyes are free. we can also feel a sense of desire because there is one other figure, tiny as she is on the street, the female figure is obviously object of his gaze. the females aloneness may suggests her availability, and we know even if he shout out of the window & ran all the way to the street, she still will be gone. so there is this element of a fleeting glance, that has to do with urban desire, and a glance which is utterly frustrated. his desire can only be psychically fulfilled, not physically. this incredible senses of alienation, abandonity, loneliness and generally negative emotions is a very strong element of painting and comes a lot from french literature at the same period of time.
the other interesting thing about the picture is its figure gesture or even its anti-gesture if you will. mainly because we see this man from back, so we have no clue about his facial expression, his hands has been hidden from us and so Caillebotte is refusing us information. the other element of this painting is that it’s propelled from dark to light, out the window into the city. the window acts both as a frame or a divider of the man from his world.
This painting is a masterpiece among other french urban paintings, you can see the newness and modernity of paris in the 19th century. Caillebotte, as a master of this art that he is, was able to transcend the elegance of the new paris fused with social and emotional information to introduce it to us, the modern viewer, the sensations which the new paris held for him, in such a way that it will never be lost.
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