Essay On Art Architecture

The painting ‘Five O’clock Tea’ is made of oil on a rigid canvas. One of the main reasons, which inspired the painting of ‘Five o’clock tea’, is the unprincipled, pernicious and stomach-ruining habit of taking the afternoon cup of tea. Stepping forward into the mid 1930s as well as the marketing philosophies of impressionists’ art, this piece is particularly impressive. While coming up new campaigns for advertising, it is of importance to try to convince unsuspecting people that they actually needed an afternoon cup of tea to due to the cultural ties and statues. The need for such a name for the late-afternoon ailment that would in most cases prevent sufferers from all forms of the 'five o'clock dinner', they endlessly opted to name it the 'five o'clock shadow'.
During those days, social visits were fundamental occasions of bringing out some of the best tea products and service as both the visitors and the hosts enjoyed gossip and conversation. With time, women found more time for tea. In this regard, various paintings like ‘Five O’clock Tea’ offer a distinguished glimpse of the Victorian tea rituals that were critically upheld in the late 19th century. Additional works, by the same author are vivid representations of astute teatime observations by Mary. Each element in this painting evokes a unique feeling or mood through the body language and facial expressions of the women. As a versatile and accomplished artist, Mary Cassatt managed to paint in print mediums as well as oil with mastery.
Oil was mostly used up to 1879 after which she opted to make pastels as she was encouraged by her fellow impressionist painters. As seen in this painting, Cassatt's main subjects were either women or children, which set her character in the domestic settings on a daily bias. The lush stroke works as well as eye for detail are the benchmarks of this painting’s style. Here, the ‘Five O'clock Tea’, equal attention is given to the family heirloom and to the rest of the social figures and rituals rather than a typical image of mundane social practices of afternoon tea. This follows that the theme of culture and adherence to integral social practices is a major point of reckon in the painting and perhaps one of the inspirations in developing this kind of art.
Nevertheless, the teas continued to be more popular among the middle-classes usually called 'five o’clock'. By the time that the habit crossed the Atlantic borders into the USA, most of the light late-afternoon meals were commonly referred to as the name 'five o'clock dinners'. The crucial artistic artwork in the painting ‘Five O'clock Tea’ is perceived to be highly cultural in imagination of the viewer. The painter manages to keenly portray exquisite detail the women's clothes with. Relevantly, the vertical lines in its background presentation add much depth to ‘Five O'clock Tea’ as they match in color together with upholstery of both the tea table and the sofa. This way, it emerges that the study on Japanese Prints was also instrumental in understanding the fact that the actual background of its composition is fundamentally crucial in its foreground. It also comes to the viewer’s realization that the creation of a tension that exists between the background and foreground are probable elements in capturing the propinquities of artistic vision. This also helps in shifting the focus between perception and reality. In the ‘Five O'clock tea’, the principles of impressionistic derivatives are beautifully presented.