Claude Monet's Canvas Cathedrals: A Life Study Of Light

During his ‘Dutch’ period, Van Gogh’s subject matter was primarily focused on the lifestyle of the poor and the bible (Dubecky). In his ‘French’ period, Van Gogh had begun to shift his focus to drawing nude figures and portraits. Monet, conversely, liked to paint his subject matters in series. He would paint “the same subject at different times of the day in different lights” (Brown 1536). Some series that he painted included water lilies, bridges, and haystacks. Something that Van Gogh and Monet both really took passion in is basing their art on their life experiences. They both painted their surroundings such as landscapes, seascapes, and people around them. Van Gogh would also draw still lifes of food and would paint paintings based on his emotions during his recovered bouts of mental illness.

Claude Monet is one of the most familiar and best loved of all Western artists. His images of poppy fields, poplar trees, water lilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar to people who have never seen the original paintings and may never have visited an art gallery. Monet's works have won a place in the affection of the general public that seems almost without parallel. (Rachman, 4) In the decades since his death in 1926, Monet's work has been intensely studied by a variety of art critics. However, none of his works have been as deeply studied as those done in Giverny, in the early twentieth century. During this time Monet's paintings, which focused on specific subject matter from various viewpoints,

Monet's painting Sunrise displays vivid color, which is commonly used among impressionists. The painting is of the sun rising over the lake, over looking the bay and the boats within. "Sunrise is a patently a seascape; but the painting says more about how one sees than about what one sees. It transcribes the fleeting effects of light and the changing atmosphere of water and air into a tissue of small dots and streaks of color-the elements of pure perception" (Fiero 114). This painting is typical of its style because it captures light at that moment. The sun is rising and its color is projected to everything in its path. Monet seems to capture this

Jean-Francois Millet’s Potato Planters is a portrayal of two farmers; more likely husband and wife, planting seeding to grow potatoes during the day on their farm. This art has a lot of emphasis, movement, color, line, light, and depth.

The foreground consists of a small pond and stream in the rightmost corner of the painting while the central portion of it shows a hilly area

Le Grande Canal is an oil painting that was created by the impressionist Claude Monet. Created in 1908, the painting shows many impressionist techniques, such as the brushwork, the angle of perception, the texture, and the subject matter. The painting is one of a series of paintings completed by Monet that are tied to the Venice trip. Among these are the Water Lilies, and one example can be seen in the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA along with Monet’s work. The use of colors in this painting depicts the changing qualities in light as the sun is setting or rising, and it looks as if he uses the entire rainbow to add dimension to the water, and the light reflecting from the poles, and building in the background. It was said that Monet took more interest in the light reflections and the waterways of the city than in the actual monuments(specifically Santa Maria della Salute), and he captured different timings of the day to capture different light in his series from his

Claude Monet’s work has been praised for his unique use of color and form but rarely has been praised for his unique choice of subject. A. His artwork seems like regular landscapes and leisure still life but back in the traditionalist era of French art, his artwork was seen as sacrilege to the elitist artist of the time. (2) 1. Claude included un-traditonalist subjects in his paintings such as workers, farm life, industrial areas, which were all very unconventional subjects of the time.

On November 14th, Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. His parents took him back to their home in Le Havre, a commercial-maritime city widely known for many cliffs, open seas, and wonderful sunsets that made an everlasting impression on Monet that would forever show up in his work. His father’s

The labels in the gallery gave a lot of useful information about both pieces. Monet’s Vernon in the Sun was painted in 1894 with oil on canvas and depicts the church of Notre Dame in Vernon, Normandy. Monet “...painted seven canvases that focused on capturing the ephemeral effect of mist and light rather than the architectural details”(Now Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale 1). Monet’s interest in creating more than one piece with different lighting is a perfect representation of Impressionism and its style.

The Sea at Le Havre, painted by Claude Monet in 1868, is a 23 5/8” x 24 3/8” oil on canvas landscape painting. Monet was a French artist who lived from 1840 to 1926 and was considered to be an impressionist. A unique quality of Monet was unblended “sloppy” brushstrokes combined with a use of precise choice of color, as seen clearly in The Sea at Le Havre. Because of his vigorous and richly textured painting style, Monet was able to capture the look and feel of the movement of water, which was demonstrated in The Sea at Le Havre, using an impasto style. He used erratic brushstrokes to show the ripples of forming waves and the foam of the waves crashing on the shore. His brushstrokes are also almost completely horizontal, which seemed to make the painting feel heavier. In the sky, Monet used thicker, longer, and more opaque strokes, as well as of varying hues of blue and gray, along with white, to create a look of overcast. To give the clouds fluffiness and substance, the paint that was used for the sky was inconspicuously smudged in some places, with more defined clouds layered overtop. The depth of the painting is attributed to his choices of color. Black is rarely used in the painting aside from where necessary, but rather replaced with darker shades of blue to show divots in the water, heavy clouds, and the distance of the village of houses that line the horizon. The different shades also give a more realistic form of light to his paintings, which was a focus of the impressionism era. His painting appears to be slightly gloomy, but doesn’t convey sadness. The piece is uniform in color, to emphasize the overcast, darkened day. Monet also used symmetrical spacing, with the canvas split nearly in half between the sea and the sky. The only thing that separates the sea and the sky is a piece of jutted-out land that shows he is on a gulf or an inlet. On that piece of land, that goes a little over a third of the way onto the canvas, Monet used heavy contrast, then continues the horizon with a slightly thick, darker blue-gray line to clearly separate the halves of sea and sky. There are three places where it appears that Monet used black along with darker shades of purple and blue, and each of those three places are

When entering the room, people crowded around Monet’s pieces, which felt like an honor to see the type and techniques his work has. The colors describe the feeling of an early morning. The painting has a muted palette of blues, greens, and grays. The sunrise is orange and yellow which are surrounded by the clouds and smoke from steamboats. Three boats are shapes and visible while the rest fade into the distance. This painting is an example of plein air or outdoor painting. I also notice that Monet layered the colors so that when I viewed the painting from a far distance I knew what the painting was about however when I looked at it up close I saw brush strokes and

Monet became known for his caricatures and for drawing many of the town’s residents. He met Boudin (also an artist) who introduced him to paint outdoors or plain air painting (enoting or in the manner of a 19th-century style of painting outdoors, or with a strong sense of the open air). An artist named Camille Pissarro who became a close friend for many years.

It seems as if Monet attempted to cover up his method in coping with his ailments through Doncieux’s placement of visitor rather than her native role of mother. Monet began to change his style from figure painting to landscape pieces. This change was onset through Monet’s realization that landscape scenes would allow for him to keep all his personal problems associated with painting hidden away and completely under control. Monet’s new found freedom from his conflicts

The Steampunk aesthetic draws its ideas from the Victorian period, which has a very distinct style and design. This place in history is around the time of many great advances in technology, particularly steam technology. As G.D. Falksen puts it in his work “Steampunk 101,” “Steam more generally signifies a world in which steam technology is both dominant and prolific” (Falksen 31). The Steampunk aesthetic includes many steam based machines that had just become very accessible to the average population just as in the Victorian era. Not only does the

There are three paintings about light of nature by Claude Monet, which are Impression Sunrise, Boulevard des Capucines, and Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son.