Third Class Carriage: Redone!

                                                               "Third Class Carriage"
                                                        Re-done By: CyberARTS Year 1



In CyberARTS, we had cards with a section of a painting on it, which we had to draw with Charcoal. When all of us were done, we put all our parts together, kind of like a puzzle. When we put it together, we made a reproduction of a real painting.  This is the Reproduction.

I think it turned out really well. There's a lot of line and shape in it, which help a lot to form the image. There is also quite a lot of texture in it from the charcoal. you can see the texture better when the value's a light grey to a darker grey; especially in the shading of the first lady's face on the right side. Even the background at the very top has alot of texture. There is also alot of contrast, because there is a huge difference between the darkest-dark and the light shades, which is great because you can see what's what in the image. For example, the top hat in the very top left hand corner. You can see it's a top hat by it's shape, but you can also tell because it's so much darker than the first lady's dress. or the second lady's face.

There is quite alot of emotion in this painting. The emotion is mostly in the people's faces. Like the boy that appears to be sleeping, the lady that's next to the boy; she looks tired, but has a happy-like grin on her face. And the mother holding her baby; she looks exhausted, but mostly looks like she's focusing on her child.
There is also emotion in the colours used also. Daumier used gloomy colours to symbolize what it was like to sit in the Third-Class part of a carriage in the 1840's. The people who sat in Third-Class were mostly poor people, who couldn't afford a First-Class ticket. Third-Class was dirty, cramped and the benches were hard to sit on. The yellows, blacks and browns symbolize the dirtiness of a third-class railway carriage.

The internationalism in this painting is limited. There is quite alot of realistic qualities in this painting, and they are mostly in the people. The three main people, the woman with child, the old lady and the boy, are the only people in the painting; that look realistic. The men and women in the background, don't have a lot of realistic qualities, as the two women and boy have.

The painter of the original painting; used a grid to complete it. He's quite known for painting with grids. And that's what my class and I tried to reproduce. Since we enlarged a section of the painting, the single pieces of paper (when put together) look like a giant grid.

Here's the original artwork:

"Third Class Carriage"

By: Honoré Daumier