Gaston La Touche's "Pardon in Brittany" is one of those pieces of art that stays with you long after you walk away and move on to the next masterpiece. It hangs in a rosy-clay colored room in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the warm wall color allows for the most amazing depiction of light to pull the viewer right into the scene, as if you were right there too holding a candle. This oil on canvas painting from 1896 uses just a few main colors - shades of blacks and whites for the clothing, delicate pinks for the sky, and golden yellows for the flames. These flames, to me, are what make this painting go from visually pretty to visually extraordinary as they just leap right off the canvas in a most realistic depiction of fire. It's like you can imagine each candle magically flickering making the 2 dimensional become so real.
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