Day: November 8, 2020

GE Writing and Works Cited

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Claude Monet

On November 14, 1840, Claude Monet was born. On December 5, 1926, he passed away. In his lifetime, Monet accomplished many monumental things. Monet was born in Paris but his family soon relocated to Normandy, where he later met landscape artist Eugene Boudin, who introduced him to a style of art called plein air. Plein air painting is a style of painting where the artist goes out into the world and paints the landscape, instead of sitting in a studio. As a child, Monet’s passion for art was evident in his caricatures (which are drawings of an exaggerated feature of someone to produce a comical effect) of his teachers and other townspeople. When he met Bodin, his style of work began to solely focus on this type of art. In 1859, Monet moved to Paris to continue his work in art where he met Johann Barthold Jongkind who further influenced his interest in landscape art.

Claude Monet is known as the Father of Impressionism, a style of capturing light and natural forms. He is known as this because of his piece Impression, Sunrise seemed as if it was an unfinished piece, and critics then used the word impressionist to categorize artists with similar styles of art. It had intentions as being an insult, but impressionists did not see it that way, instead, they embraced the name and began the Impressionism movement in art. Monet’s art captured the essence and emotion of his landscape through the use of bright oil paints and short brush strokes, creating an unevenness to his work.

Most of Monet’s works are oil paintings. Monet is known to use a canvas of light color, from white to light yellow. He also chose to limit his paints to nine colors in order to focus more on light quality and evoke a feeling of his work from his colors. Colors to Monet were vessels of attachment and held special meaning to them.

Monet’s work stands out because of his style of painting. He didn’t blend his colors; rather, he used short and light brush strokes to layer his paint. This created a flat image. There are no sketch lines, just laying the paint to produce the forms of different subjects, like trees and buildings. His work has a blurred effect as if we are moving past the image.

 

Works Cited

“Biography of Claude Oscar Monet.” Claude Oscar Monet Biography | Life, Paintings,  Influence on Art, www.claudemonetgallery.org/biography.html.

“Claude Monet Biography.” Claude Monet: Paintings, Biography, and Quotes, www.claude-monet.com/biography.jsp.

“Claude Monet.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 10 Aug. 2020, www.biography.com/artist/claude-monet.

Doyle, Nancy. “Artist Profile: Claude Monet.” Artist Profile – Claude Monet, French Impressionist Painter, His Life and Work, www.ndoylefineart.com/monet.html.

“History – Historic Figures: Claude Monet (1840-1926).” BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/monet_claude.shtml.

Jordan, Courtney. “What Is Plein Air Painting?” Artists Network, 29 Sept. 2018, www.artistsnetwork.com/art-subjects/plein-air/plein-air-art/.

“Monet, Father of Impressionism.” Monet Gallery, www.cmonetgallery.com/father-of-impressionism.aspx.

“What Materials Did Claude Monet Use for His Paintings?” UreMusic Articles: General Music Reference, www.uremusic.org/2016/03/what-materials-did-claude-monet-use-for.html. 

Homework 13-The Secret of Drawing 3

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It was fascinating to see the work of John Tchelenko with eye movement and drawing. Being able to see that difference in eye movement of an ametuer compared to a skilled artist is insightful. I had expected the professional to have eye movement all over the place to be able to catch the whole image, but with their eyes having a specific focus on one area that they drew, it demonstrates their thinking and seeing process. That piece of technology also offers ways how science can perhaps break the secret to drawing.

An artist’s work that I enjoy is David Shrigley. The darkness of his lines and the words that accompany his work is witty. His work is kind of nightmarish but also realistic. His line work reminds me of a child’s but more focused. His drawings are simple and cartoonish which intrigues me and he manages to effortlessly capture the movement in the images. There is also humor in his work which I find nice.

The cave art was also interesting. They were a lot better than what I am used to being shown about cave art, especially with the color and shading. I thought it was interesting that they compared that art to Nadia Chomyn as a way of saying the cave artist might have also been autisitic in a sense. Nadia had an exceptional ability to draw which is common for children with autism, where they excel in a specialty, but just because her work and the cave art is similar is not evidence that the cave artist was also on the spectrum. Perhaps the artist was on the spectrum but there is also no lie that some people are born with more talent than others. The cave artist could have been naturally talented or practiced a lot. Perhaps other cave art was their work but then they started improving how they drew.