y Manet. (The Ragpicker. Edouard Manet.1865.Oil on canvas.) The painting was so enormous that it was hard to miss. Such a huge painting for one man, it almost looked life-like. The dimensions of this work is 76.75” x 51.25”. This scene seems to take place of a lower-class man late in his age, probably near his seventies, appears to be looking out of the corner of his eye. The walking stick seems to symbolize the old age as most walking sticks do. He is geographically set in the middle of the canvas as the center of the painting. His facial expressions seem to look like something is bothering him. He wears a gray hat and has grown a long white beard on his unshaven face. The bags under his eyes seem to compliment the walking stick and both show the aging process of man. His clothes look to be unwashed and is probably the only clothes he owns. His clothes consist of a long white v-neck long sleeved shirt and a pair of torn blue jeans to cover his legs. He also has a sack that is hung over his right shoulder. This sack is the same color or appears to be the same color of his hat. The walking stick he carries clenched in his left-hand stands from feet to chest. The knees of the old man are slightly bent and his head is hung over to the side. His shoes look to be worn down and are gray. Next to his shoes is a pile of trash. In the garbage, there is broken glass, wrappers, a piece of fruit that was bitten into, leaves, and branches. It looks to be that he is on dirt but the background fades to gray.Manet did not use vertical lines in this painting; instead, he used bending line. The bending line indicates hard working, tired, and weariness. The man’s walking stick appears to be very vertical but is actually at a slight diagonal. His life does not at all look like a proud one but more of a laboring, hard and tired life. The bending line gives away the feeling and emotion of the piece.Chiaroscuro was used...
