How Did Claude Monet Painted San Giorgio Maggiore At Dusk?

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Claude Monet used shadow, color, and technique when he painted San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. Monet was born in Paris, France. His date of birth was November 14, 1840. Monet developed a love for drawing at a young age. He filled sketchbooks of people in his school, including his teachers. He was accepted and directly admitted in the Academie Suisse. During 1861 and 1862 Claude Monet served in the military but was honorably discharged for unknown medical reasons. Once he returned to Paris he studied with Charles Gleyre. Through Gleyre he met Johgkind, a landscape painter who appeared to have been an influence on Monet.After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet's painting style According to Anirudh(2017) in the article …show more content…

The way a painter uses shadow will really pull the painting together. The way Claude Monet uses shadow in his painting San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk really allows every single person observing the painting to see how Claude Monet can make the painting look like the world is evolving in time. In this painting in particular he is showing the light going away and the darkness arising. He shows this through the shadow of the town hitting the water with a beautiful …show more content…

It catches people’s eyes. Claude Monet did very well with this in his paintings. In his painting San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk he blends the colors together to represent the world changing by time. As the sun goes down the sky changes in the colors he uses in all of his paintings bring them to life. Each color to a painter has a meaning and has a purpose in their paintings. In the article “Claude Monet- Color, Technique and Influences” (2017), “Monet would paint on very pale gray, very light yellow, or white canvases and then paint with very opaque colors. Close up studies show that Monet used colors straight from the tube, or mixed the paints on the canvas. He also used thin, broken layers of paint, allowing lower layers of color to pass through. Monet liked to build up texture in his paintings with his brushstrokes” (para

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