Claude Monet was a leading founder in the art movement Impressionism, which focused on capturing light on its changing qualities and natural forms. Impressionism gradually builds up its own ideas and painting ways: artists provide the most accurate record of what is seen using a quickly painted oil sketch; they adopt new techniques which were short and broken brushstrokes, pure unblended colors and effects of lights changing; also they have a unique ability to see the world freshly. (Stokstad p496) In the last thirty years of his life, Monet perfectly expressed his ideas and styles in his series of approximately 250 oil paintings—water lilies, his best well-known artworks, in his flower garden at Giverny, west of Paris along the Seine. Monet
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However, it looks like almost watercolors because Monet used a small amount of paints. He always used short and broken brushes that barely convey forms because he needed to quickly paint the scene in a short time. Then, the whole painting looks very beautiful-a pond of open red water lilies-at a distance. However, it was hard to recognize water lilies and irregular shapes if we have a close look. The flowers seem like simply arbitrary strokes by children incapable to draw. Those colors are thick and opaque because Monet prefers to add deep color layers. By the analysis of computers, some paintings have fifteen layers of color.
Ascetically the painting appears to the viewers as longitudinal symmetry. Drawing a straight line at an angel of 30 clockwise at the center of the painting, the pond of water lilies was divided into two similar parts. Also, at the above of water lilies, some pieces of green lotus leaves are bilateral symmetry. As a whole part, the painting was formed seven red open lotuses at hand, eleven slight lotuses at a distance, many unevenly distributed lotus leaves, a light source, and a pond of blue lake …show more content…
These nine colors were lead white, madder red, vermilion, French ultramarine, black ivory, cadmium yellow, chrome yellow, viridian and emerald green. (J. Miller) Limited color choices depend upon artists’ abilities and purposes effectively. In the painting, the bottom lotus flowers are vermilion while the above are madder red; the lotus leaves are mostly viridian and emerald green; most of the water are French ultramarine while some are combined with lead white lights, cadmium yellow at different angels and visions. The bottom has deeper colors than the above because of the distance and lights changing. As a whole, the colors are bright and vivid which Monte express the sense of vitality, vigor and energy at the height of
However, it looks like almost watercolors because Monet used a small amount of paints. He always used short and broken brushes that barely convey forms because he needed to quickly paint the scene in a short time. Then, the whole painting looks very beautiful-a pond of open red water lilies-at a distance. However, it was hard to recognize water lilies and irregular shapes if we have a close look. The flowers seem like simply arbitrary strokes by children incapable to draw. Those colors are thick and opaque because Monet prefers to add deep color layers. By the analysis of computers, some paintings have fifteen layers of color.
Ascetically the painting appears to the viewers as longitudinal symmetry. Drawing a straight line at an angel of 30 clockwise at the center of the painting, the pond of water lilies was divided into two similar parts. Also, at the above of water lilies, some pieces of green lotus leaves are bilateral symmetry. As a whole part, the painting was formed seven red open lotuses at hand, eleven slight lotuses at a distance, many unevenly distributed lotus leaves, a light source, and a pond of blue lake …show more content…
These nine colors were lead white, madder red, vermilion, French ultramarine, black ivory, cadmium yellow, chrome yellow, viridian and emerald green. (J. Miller) Limited color choices depend upon artists’ abilities and purposes effectively. In the painting, the bottom lotus flowers are vermilion while the above are madder red; the lotus leaves are mostly viridian and emerald green; most of the water are French ultramarine while some are combined with lead white lights, cadmium yellow at different angels and visions. The bottom has deeper colors than the above because of the distance and lights changing. As a whole, the colors are bright and vivid which Monte express the sense of vitality, vigor and energy at the height of