A Critique I Visited The Irvine Museum

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For this critique I visited The Irvine Museum. Their current exhibit, The Nature of Water: Our Most Precious Resource, features impressionist paintings of the California landscape, with an emphasis on water and intends to bring to light the importance of water conservation during the drought. I decided to go to The Irvine Museum for this exhibit because impressionism has always been one of my favorite styles, and having lived in California my whole life, the drought has had a large impact on me, personally. I chose to critique the artists Granville Redmond, Guy Rose, and Paul Grimm.
Granville Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia on March 9, 1871, and died at 64 years old on May 24, 1935 in Los Angeles California. Redmond lost his hearing to scarlet fever at the age of two. In 1874, at age three, he and his parents moved to San Jose, California.
Redmond’s great appreciation for the California landscape led him to become one of the most known and respected landscape painters of his generation. Due to his disability, Redmond attended the California School for the Deaf in Fremont California from 1879 to 1890. He then attended San Francisco’s California School of Design for three years. At the end of his third year he won the W.E. Brown medal of excellence and was given an endowment fund from the California School of the Deaf. He used this endowment to continue his studies at the Academie Julien in Paris. A milestone in his career was in 1895 when his “Matin d’hiver” was admitted to the Paris Salon.
Redmond moved back to California in 1898 and married Carrie Ann Jean in 1899. He continued to paint various areas of the state with a frequent use of rolling hills and colorful growth. Redmond won a medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exp...

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...rved this painting, the more I found that I enjoyed about it. The plants in the foreground are beautiful, and the shadows are excellent. I had difficulty choosing between this piece and another by Grimm called Storm, which is a similar piece, only there is a palm tree being bent by strong wind. I chose this painting over Storm because photographs were not allowed and I could not find an image of Storm online. Even though I enjoy Storm more, this painting brings a sense of nostalgia for my childhood camping trips.
California has always been very dear to my heart. Seeing these pieces, all reflecting the beauty of my home state, was a positive experience. Even though most of the paintings were around 100 years old, I recognized a lot of the landscapes, having been to many of them before. I enjoyed seeing these familiar places through the eyes of the different artists.

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