Claude Monet's The Beach At Sainte-Adresse

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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. With the many changes of the nineteenth century, and the increase use of travel guides and railroads, traveling became more popular. This caused many hotels to start building on the beaches which attracted more people to invade these local communities. In these paintings Monet shows the local fishing villagers in the left foreground and the background shows the booming hotel industry. Showing that the local and tourist life coexisting together. He made another piece called “Regatta at …show more content…

In the painting from the art institute shows the beach at low tide, influenced by native fishermen and their dark-sailed working boats, while the Metropolitan Museum's features white sailed yachts on a sunny day and the urban tourists enjoying the water at high tide. This can also relate to upper class and the middle working class. In the beach and sea pictures of 1867, Monet was plainly not trying to reproduce faithfully the scene before him as examined in detail but rather attempting to record on the spot the impression that relaxed. He wanted to show what was seen then, with all its movement and vitality. Buildings, figures, boats, and the pebble beach are swiftly brushed in as flat color patterns, with little attention paid to their weight or

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