Have you ever looked at a pond and squinted your eyes? Well if you have you would know exactly how Claude Monet felt. Around the time of this painting Monet was losing his eyesight. It seems to me that this painting was actually meant to be realistic, Monet just painted what he saw, how he saw it. It's kind of weird how he achieved this fuzzy look, he doesn't use any real hard edges on any of the forms, but they aren't really faded that much either, It could just be the use of alike colors (in this case green and blue) which make the edges of the lilies fade into the edge of the water. One thing I can't figure out is how this painting is balanced so well. The concept of putting all the lilies on the right side would seem to me to weigh that side down. Then once again the alike colors come into play and they just seem to fade into each other when you stand back and look at it as a whole. Then also the flowers at the bottom of the painting are the brightest part of it and since they are in the middle they just even it out by being the most attentive part. When I first saw this painting I didn?t really see a feeling that Monet was trying to convey. Then I learned that he was loosing his eyesight and went back to look once more. The second time I had ever seen it it gave me the message that as you get older things start to fall apart and get fuzzy. It also seems to be the same message in all the paintings after that , because they seem to get weirder and more abstract. Like he cant even control what's going on in his own life.
The most emphasized part of this image is the man lying on top of the child and leaning against the bed, part of the body being directly in the center and seems to take up the most space, this is where the eye tends to linger. The negative space is made interesting by including a turned over chair, and rumpled sheets on a bed and other homely objects, which indicates that this is set in a home. The contrast that is shown in this artwork is through the use of value since Daumier used implied light, the brighter and darker areas create a contrast against each other. While this piece is not symmetrically balanced, it is balanced asymmetrically. It is asymmetrically balanced through a man and most of a bed being placed in the center, on the right is a small child, the upper torso of an older looking man, a chair next to him, and the rest of the bed; on the left of the man is most of what seems to be a woman, and other less detailed furniture. There is a sense of repetition through the positive shapes of the people lying on the floor, this is also shown through the use of line that creates the entire lithograph. This provides a sense of cohesiveness and unity throughout the
I think the color term objective (representational) best describes the painting by Monet. I believe this because we learned the artist records objective color without bias. The painting appears to be very natural and looks exactly how one would see it. The subject is looking out over the river and very soft blues and greens are used. These hues are considered cool colors and make me imagine a soft breeze coming off of the water. Monet does use some grey within his painting, which decreases the colors intensity but it portrays the clouds reflecting on the water and the realistic look of the houses in the back of the painting. Derain’s painting is more subjective I believe. Subjective color is colors that the artist chooses and not exactly
Just last summer after grade 9, I went to New York City and Philadelphia. They both have amazing art museums: New York has the Museum of Metropolitan Art and Philadelphia has the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Both art museums have beautiful and alluring paintings that I love and it’s evident that these paintings are genuine works of art and that they exemplify what we define as art: something that is beautiful, intricate, bold or simple. I remember seeing the “Irises” painted by Van Gough and the full series of “Poplars” by Monet. Van Gogh emphasizes tones and shadows while Monet depicts his subjects realistically with small, fine, but visible brushstrokes. Their styles are unique and distinguishable and there is a wide range art styles to
There is a lot of repetition of the vertical lines of the forest in the background of the painting, these vertical lines draw the eye up into the clouds and the sky. These repeated vertical lines contrast harshly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, is quite static and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have quite a lot of depth. This static effect is made up for in the immaculate amount of d...
The nineteenth century produced a large number of works of art from numerous of artists. Since I have been to the Art Institute in Chicago, I decided to walk through this gallery online. Remembering that when I went there I liked a lot of the artwork that I saw. There I stumbled upon an artwork by Claude Monet called “The beach at Sainte-Adresse’. This painting caught my eye because of the beach scenery. The beach has always been my favorite place to go, where I am able to relax and clear my mind. This is what I was able to feel when I saw this artwork.
Just from glancing at it, one can immediately tell that it’s an O’Keeffe painting, and can recognize how much of her personality and style show through. On this canvas that is approximately 30 by 40 inches, are bold, beautiful flowers. These flowers, though in real life are rather small, were painted on a much larger scale, as O’Keeffe often wanted to make the beauty of the flowers hard to ignore. By painting it on a bigger size, she was able to further enhance the details of the flowers, beautifully painting the edges of the flowers, managing to capture the movement of the flower petals, how they flow and overlap each other. Using paints, she manages to make it appear as if light is hitting the flowers, nearly making them glow. Another thing to note is the contrast in colors. Though she uses bright reds and oranges, in their centers, she uses a deep black. Despite the fact that it’s a darker color, it still manages to be just as bold as the brighter ones. This is partially due to her use of oil paints, which was often her medium of choice. With oils, it’s much easier to create eye-catching colors, as the paints are strongly pigmented. O’Keeffe often used this to her advantage, especially in this piece. Nowhere in it do you see murky or muddy colors. The composition of her piece also helps to further develop these poppies into something that can truly evoke emotions of happiness and
The forms of the bodies depicted follow the standard human forms without much deviation. This is true until one reaches the faces. The faces feature exaggerated eyes. The eyes of the figure are enlarged to the point of uncanny, in the sense that they convey this eerie underline mood to the overall feel of the painting. This is enhanced by the paintings large size, which allows for the view to more easily become engulfed in the eyes of each of the figure in the painting. Since the face conveys so much of the emotions of the human figure, the swaying of the face to the eerie is what makes many attribute this painting to surrealism.
In this particular painting he uses color matching and the right use of tones from the sky down to the body of water. The darkness in the clouds matches the colors of the rest of the painting just right rather than exaggerating the light differences. His use of shadows and highlights work well together. The shadows work well in the wings of the ducks and in between the weeds. The highlights show well with the white caps in the water, the duck bellies that bounce off the water, and the right side of the tree to show light
Also considering their work excelled among other potter artists. In the Thousand Flowers vase case, this piece is adorned with peonies, chrysanthemums, magnolias, lilies, lotuses, roses, and morning glories, which are the Chinese people favorites flowers, as I was able to observe in my visit the botanical gardens of . The artists drew them in a ways that they intermingled beautifully and resemble colorful and elegant brocade. A vase like this, it is not only elegant, but it will add a touch of happiness to any place, no matter the season, the country, or a particular place in a house. The mastery of the colors utilized to decorate the piece is a gift for sore eyes. Moreover, this vessel is unique, because it shows many hours of observation, sketching, and spiritual communication with each kind of flower. One can clearly, observe that this artist was masterfully able to mixed lead-silica enamels in different colors such as green, yellow, red, gold, and other rose palette colors. By observing this vase, one have to conclude that the artist has a good sense of volume and the final product shows impressionistic features, which I personally love. According to Cunningham’s, the application of color require two firings, which implies that any small; mistake will destroy the whole product. Fortunately, this artist was savvy enough to achieve the planned
We can see a clear representation of the impressionist that tended to completely avoid historical or allegorical subjects. In this painting, Monet’s painted very rapidly and used bold brushwork in order to capture the light and the color; include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes. An insistence on what Monet called “a spontaneous work rather than a calculated one” – this in particular accounts for the sketchy and seemingly unfinished quality of the Impressionist paintings. In the texture, he played with the shadow and light and created variation in tone, he employs patches of depth and surface. The light in the painting come from back to the windmill, it is a light shines softly behind the houses and the windmill. He was shown each brushstroke in the painting. Balance is achieved through an asymmetrical placement of the houses and the most important the
Snow Flowers is a watercolor and gouache painting made by Henri Matisse. This painting also contains elements of collage, as the flowers in it were paper cut outs that were glued onto the multicolored watercolor and gouache background. Now “During the last decade of his long life, Henri Matisse produced some 270 paper cutouts.” (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History." Henri Matisse: Snow Flowers (1999.363.46). N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2015.)”
The painting is organized simply. The background of the painting is painted in an Impressionist style. The blurring of edges, however, starkly contrasts with the sharp and hard contours of the figure in the foreground. The female figure is very sharp and clear compared to the background. The background paint is thick compared to the thin lines used to paint the figures in the foreground. The thick paint adds to the reduction of detail for the background. The colors used to paint the foreground figures are vibrant, as opposed to the whitened colors of the Impressionist background. The painting is mostly comprised of cool colors but there is a range of dark and light colors. The light colors are predominantly in the background and the darker colors are in the foreground. The vivid color of the robe contrasts with the muted colors of the background, resulting in an emphasis of the robe color. This emphasis leads the viewer's gaze to the focal part of the painting: the figures in the foreground. The female and baby in the foreground take up most of the canvas. The background was not painted as the artist saw it, but rather the impression t...
The composition concentrates mainly on the foreground .It has three main points of interest, the small rowing boats, the artificial island and the floating barge .It also has a stretch of trees and foliage in the background painted in a much lighter fashion. Monet?s painting has a very different composition from Renoir?s painting of Grenouillere, which was done at the same time; Renoir?s painting is focussed much more on the artificial island and the people on it. Monet uses a combination of thick bold brushstrokes and small short soft brushstrokes; this creates a nice varied look and helps give a good impression of perspective. The tone is also very varied as it is Very light in some areas, but it is also quite dark in others, such as the shades on the barge. The use of dark shades in the foreground makes the boat look so realistic and quite 3D. Although the middle ground is flatter this helps add to the perspective. The water ho...
Activism comes in all shapes and sizes, and when someone does it in an unusual way it cannot go unnoticed. Banksy’s “The Flower Thrower” is a perfect example of this due to the fact that it’s vandalism with a deeper meaning. The man known as Banksy is a graffiti artist and a political activist, and the most intriguing thing about him is that he chooses to remain anonymous. There are many theories about his identity, one even claiming that he is a fictional character. Despite proof of his identity, several countries are on the look out for him. Many have even issued warrants for his arrest because his public works are considered vandalism. His paintings are known for making people question their everyday lives and really
Claude Monet and Camile Pissarro were two of the founders of Impressionism, a movement that was largely influenced by its predecessor, Realism. Originally, Monet’s career in art started with him drawing caricatures of the townspeople of Le Havre. Then in 1857, he met en plein-air painter, Eugène Boudin. He urged a reluctant eighteen year old Monet to paint outdoors, encouraging him to “see the light.” Boudin’s teachings would later influence Monet as he met artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley in 1862. Together they refined plein–air painting; they investigated the effects of light as they painted with broken colours and rapid brushstrokes across a canvas. In contrast was Pissarro as his earliest works were rendered in the more traditional Academic style-invisible brushstrokes, and realistic subject matter. Though in 1859, his works became looser and freer, greatly influenced by Camille Corot’s rural scenes and Gustave Courbet’s plein-air paintings.