For as long as I can remember‚ water lilies have always been a sign of peacefulness to me. This is one of the reasons I have always been drawn to Claude Monet’s Bridge over the Water-lily Pond (1905). The green hues in this piece bring me a feeling of happiness. The Bridge over the Water-lily Pond has a sense of calmness and tranquility. There exists such expression and emotions from the impasto in this piece as well. The foreground is filled with beautiful water lilies floating atop a peaceful
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French Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the late 19th C. ©Werner Hammerstingl‚1998‚1999 Before the emergence of Impressionism we can see a major political and social transition in central Europe which has demonstrable artistic and literary consequences. The major aspects of this change include: The 19C industrial expansion which took away opportunities of individual farming and craft practice and replaced them with paid labour in factories. Governments across Europe are exploring
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name from Claude Monet’s “Impression at Sunrise” (1872). •It was a reaction to the precision of images created by the newly invented camera (1853). • Therefore‚ the artists were concerned with capturing the effects of light as it changed through the course of the day. •They began painting outdoors – called plen-air‚ and depicted the weather and atmospheric changes. •Also due to economic changes caused by the industrial revolution‚ they were concerned with depicting everyday life. Claude Monet “Impression
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Modern Art Modern Art is loosely defined as the art styles developed between the years of 1860’s and the 1970’s. It includes the Claude Monet during the impressionism period of 1870-90‚ Van Gogh during the post impressionism period of 1885-1905‚ Ernest Ludwig Kirchner representing the German Expressionism between 1905 and 1925‚ Viadimir Tatlin’s Abstracts from 1907 forward‚ Pablo Picasso’s Cubism from 1907-1915 to name a few. Further into the 1900’s bought Dada‚ Surrealism‚ Abstract Expressionism
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Contrast Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet In this Essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first painting is Stairway at Auvers by Vincent Van Gogh. The painting is one of 80 paintings done by Van Gogh during his stay in Auvers. Stairway at Auvers was done on July 1890 shortly before his death. The second painting is Water Lilies 1916-1926 by Claude Monet. Both painting are oil canvas‚ Water Lilies is one of 250 water lilies paintings done by Monet. Both paintings are examples of
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Marker‚ Oil pastel‚ Pen and ink • Sculpture materials – Beads‚ Clay‚ Found objects‚ Jewels‚ Marble‚ Metals‚ Papier-mache‚ Plaster‚ Plastic‚ Sand‚ Stone‚ Textile‚ Wax‚ Wire‚ Wood Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Oil on poplar c. 1503 Claude Monet Impression‚ Sunrise Oil on canvas 1872 Andy Warhol Superman Screen print 1961 The Great Nanjing Massacre‚ Zi Jian Li‚ 1992 Christian Lacroix Tim Burton Jean Giraud (Mœbius) Ron Mueck Quentin Blake John Howe Shepard Fairey
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this era that is essential to understanding this period is Claude Monet‚ Edgar Degas‚ and James Whistler. Claude Monet Monet specialized in the new term called en plein air. This would mean working outdoors instead of the studio to paint. He did an extensive study of the phenomena of light and color which is especially in several series of paintings he made of the same subject. The painting I chose is the Rouen Cathedral. In 1892–93‚ Monet painted more than thirty views of Rouen Cathedral. Moving
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The Artist’s Mother exemplifies the American tradition for psychological portraiture that arose during the 1800s. The dark‚ neutral tones and abundance of empty space in the painting evokes a coldness that is matched by the austere expression of the subject of the piece‚ Anna McNeill Whistler‚ indicating distance between mother and son. Additionally‚ very little attempt has been made to replicate depth or three-dimensionality‚ except in the woman’s face and‚ to some extent‚ the curtain on the left
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done by Claude Monet. The whole painting does not have clear or strict lines‚ shapes and edges because these are characteristics of the impressionism painting. He used many bright colors and soft brushwork to display a peaceful scene of the Seine River. The Seine at Lavacourt is one of the masterpieces from his Seine collection. His painting actually influences the future development of realism‚ neo-classicism‚ japonisme (Claude Monet Biography‚ n.d.). Personal Interest I went to “Monet and the
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Impressionist painting or sculpture and three Post-Impressionist works. Explain how the six pieces of art fall into these two styles. The three paintings that I choose from the 19th century Impressionist are the self-portraits of Pierre Auguste Renoir; Claude Monet reading a newspaper‚ and the last being a painting by Camille Pissarro named Boulevard Montmartre. The Post-Impressionist paintings that I choose are: A Lion Devouring its Prey by Henri Rousseau‚ In the Oise Valley by Paul Cezanne‚ and The Yellow
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