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Based on the famous painting: Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877) Oil on canvas, 84” x 109” Art Institute of Chicago Gustave Caillebotte’s monumental Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877), a statement on modernity in its own time, artistically presents the changing physical and social landscape of 19th-century Paris. Baron Haussman’s plans for the city of Paris included razing old crowded neighborhoods and replacing them with modern apartment buildings and broad boulevards. While the “Haussmanization” of Paris displaced tens of thousands of poor inhabitants, the new apartment buildings and boulevards provided opportunities for the wealthy bourgeoisie to display its wealth and parade in the latest fashions. Exhibited at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877, the painting’s asymmetrical composition, unusual cropped figures, melancholic mood, and obvious reference to contemporary life both pleased and unsettled nineteenth-century viewers. Monument—Paris Street, Rainy Day (2022), executed in Kyu-Hak Lee’s inimitable mosaic medium, reimagines Caillebotte’s masterpiece and questions yet again what it means to be truly modern in our own age.