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Marine View With A Sunset

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The painting “marine view with a sunset”, also known as “Argenteuil basin at sunset” , was created by Claude Monet in 1875, when he lived in Argenteuil, France. During that period, Monet experimented new painting concepts and techniques. In order to create dynamic natural landscapes, he tried to concern more about compositional elements, such as position of forms and focal point. And this painting provides a special color combination. Monet depicted a warm sunset over the river surrounding by clouds, in which the spreading orange sunset, cloudy blue sky and dark green bush blended together. This painting gives a strong settled background with pleasure boating scene.
In 1870s, when Monet at his middle age, he was an indefatigable traveler …show more content…

He gave us a strike contrast, of subject, of scale, of hue and of course of facture. When the viewer look at the upper part of this image, they will be attracted by a marvelous warm sunset and shocked by how Monet depicted the fleet sunset, the moment that the sun went down to the skyline. It is undeniable that the whole scene is a harmony of natural color. The viewers could roughly see the transition of warm color, in which the purple light at the very edge slowly change to light orange in the central point. All the movements of the color are captured by Monet in a short period of time, which is the goal of impressionist. Meanwhile, people could even see several details that dark-color strokes jump over the light-color strokes, in which illustrates the different thickness of clouds in the sky. In the Monet’s Impression sunrise, everything look serine and he didn’t spend much time on shape the clouds. He used long thick stroke with mixing color to fill the sky to create a foggy morning, in which people can barely identify the depth of the sky. However, in the “marine view with sunset”, which was drawn at a clear nightfall, the clouds are pretty dynamic. There are different length and thickness of brush strokes on this painting. At the top left of the sky, the overlapping purple strokes are intensive, which shows how the sunlight shoots through the cloud and reflects on the sky. And these curving grey strokes around the warm color looks like the shadow of

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