Informative Essay On Ferdinand Hodler's

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Today we will talk about an art exhibition called Hodler, Monet, Munch - Peindre l’impossible in Fondation Pierre Gianadda, which situated in Marigny, Switzerland. Ferdinand Hodler, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch respectively were the representative of symbolism, impressionism and expressionism. So if their painting style is in a different way, what brings their painting to be displayed together?

[History]

Ferdinand Hodler was a symbolism painter, whose painting skill was heavily influenced by his childhood experience and mentors. He was born in a Swiss farmer family in 1853 and died in 1918, he had experienced an awful childhood that his father and two brother died from disease when he was very young, and then his mother also died from disease …show more content…

Monet was very sensitive to the movement towards light, who was good at discovering the connection between the light and shadow to create a series of painting which depicted the same object in different lights and angles. His painting skill about sketches and oil painting was taught by Eugène Louis Boudin, and he started to paint on site after he found that many painters imitated the artwork of the famous artists in the Louvre. Monet believed that all the landscape paintings should be painted on site, which decided he had to change his working habit and discover a new technical method to chase the rapid change of the landscape.[2] For example, a famous painting called Le Soleil Levant, it depicted a foggy harbor view of the sunrise. The boatmen were poling their boats out to sea when the sun was slowly raising and the smoke was rolling up from the chimney, the sea as a mirror in which the whole scene was reflected on it. Take a good look at this painting, the lines were unclearly demarcated between the sky, the harbor and the sea, but you are still able to distinctly separate them due to the different shades of blue and red colors. Monet believed that the landscape sketch required an ability to capture all the evanescent moments, which means they did not have enough time for color modulation, so they would pay more consideration about the overall effect rather than the

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