The small town of Auburn which is nestled in the foothills of the Gold Country has a number of art galleries and numerous local artists. One of these artists is Michael Murphy who is also a respected architect in the Auburn area. Michael has been painting for many years and has gone through many artistic phases, but I have chosen to focus on his early Impressionism phase. Having traveled to France in his youth, he cultivated an interest in Impressionism. Although this paper will focus on Impressionism, I would also like to touch on how artists go through various phases as they age. Viewing his work over time, one sees different epochs evidenced by different techniques and subject matter. In his painting, Lady of the lake – Alana, Murphy …show more content…
Most of the general shapes are captured but there are no clearly defined forms as there would be in a Realistic piece. One well known art writer describes Impressionism as, “short, broken brushstrokes that barely convey forms, pure unblended colors, and an emphasis on the effects of light. Rather than neutral white, grays, and blacks, Impressionists often rendered shadows and highlights in color” (Samu "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History") Murphy uses many of these techniques in Lady of the Lake – Alana.
The subject of the painting, a woman relaxing on a bench near a peaceful pond, would be right in line with what early Impressionists might have painted. Early Impressionists celebrated life by painting people enjoying their free time in nature or the city. Our text puts it this way, “These artists painted the upper middle class at leisure in the countryside and in the city, and although several members of this group painted rural scenes, their point of view tended to be that of a city person” (Stokstad and Cothren
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It satisfies a number of the requirements to be classified as such a work. The way that Murphy uses color and brush work is clearly characteristic of Impressionism, and the subject matter is also right in line with early Impressionist painting. And it does not hurt that Lady of the lake – Alana is very similar to Monet 's pond paintings. This painting also makes use of playing with color to capture the effects of lighting on the irises. It would also seem that Murphy shares some of the anti-establishment beliefs that early Impressionists
bring himself to do so and returns to Arthur, saying that he has done it. Arthur knows he is lying and sends Sir Bedivere off again. Sir Bedivere repeats this until the third time, when he manages to throw the sword in and it is caught by the Lady of the Lake. This is very similar between the Tennyson and the Malory. However, in the movie, Percival is the one to take up the task of throwing the sword, and it takes him two tries, rather than three. The movie is inferior because of this change. The
Secondary Source Quotation Analysis Brooke, Stopford A. "'Romeo and Juliet'." On Ten Plays of Shakespeare (1905). Rpt. In Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Mark W. Scott. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. Literature Resource Center. Web. 14 May 2014. Quotation: “…all the elements of a coming doom are contained and shaped—the ancient feud, deepening in hatred from generation to generation, the fiery Youth-in-arms of whom Tybalt is the concentration…” (Brooke 1). Analysis: The quotation explains how
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