The Third Class Carriage

"The Third Class Carriage"

By: Honore Daumier

"The Third Class Carriage"

Reproduced By: The Year 1 CyberARTS Class

     For the past two weeks the Year 1 CyberARTS class has been working on a reproduction. The painting/ piece of art that we had to reproduce was " The Third Class Carriage" by Honore Daunier. Each student in the class at least had 2 pieces to reproduce. The main point about this project was to learn how to enlarge a picture. Also how to used charcoal for value. No once knew how this piece would turn out, in the end but once we put it all together it looked amazing!

     First lets start off with Emotionalism. To me the feeling of this photo is upsetting, but with a lot of care. By the title of this art work ( The Third Class Carriage) and also the colours that are used in this piece it's upsetting because " Third Class" is the lowest class out of all the classes. Which also means that they're the poor class. Daumier used a lot of dark tones in this art piece which made it look upsetting ( in my opinion). But it's also trying to say that "Even though they're poor, they're caring as can be." By looking at the picture you could see a women with a child. Not only  she's poor she also has a  child to raise and worry about. you could tell by the look on her face you could see a hint of a smile in there and knowing with that hint of a smile, you could tell that the women cares for that child and wants that child to be healthy and safe. If I were them I would think to myself " Even though I may not be like the others, I am still more caring and thoughtful for someone else other then myself." This is what I think the emotion is in this painting.

     The next thing we are going to talk about is the Unity in this painting. I do think that there is unity in this painting because there's a lot of balance between colours and emphasis between the two women and the child at the front. There's balance in the original painting by looking at the colours. How I see the balance, is if you look at the original painting you see a lot of dark tones. But the yellows and the creamy white makes the people stand out more.

   Some people in the world expect the objects in the art work to look realistic. But the truth is that not all objects need to be realistic. To me the original painting is balanced between realistic an not realistic. The faces and other body parts looks realistic because there's a lot of detail for example women in the front row. There is a lot of lines in her face to make the women with the basket look elderly. All the faces with the different shadings make it look realistic. I do think that this art piece looks realistic.

I hope you enjoyed this class piece :)