Rue Lafayette

Rue Lafayette (also Rue La Fayette) is a painting by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. It was created in Paris in 1891 during a brief period in which the painter experimented with the stylistic devices of Impressionism before turning to synthetism, symbolism and expressionism. The picture shows a man looking down from a balcony at the street life of The Rue La Fayette in Paris. It experiences its special effect through the rapid, oblique brushstrokes as well as the steep perspective by means of which the viewer looks into the abyss.