Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect By Claude Monet And Sisley

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Impressionism is a style of art dating back to the 1860s and originating in France. A couple important impressionist artists include Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. They are both famous impressionist artists who focused their attention to landscapes, still while working on other subject matters. Monet painted Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect and Sisley painted The Church at Moret. I will be looking at how the artists have similar use of color, while using different techniques, all within a similar subject matter and style.
Image one is Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect by Claude Monet. It was painted in 1894 during the Impressionist Era. It is a 42 inch by 28.9 inch oil on canvas painting of the Cathedral in Rouen France. Monet uses color, value, shape, and form throughout the painting to depict the beautiful church in full sun light. Throughout the piece, Monet uses a color scheme that remains mostly primary, using
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Both pieces are oil paintings on canvas, which plays an influential role in giving the paintings the detail and texture they have. They also both have the same primary color scheme, using mostly blues, reds, and yellows. This use of color gives the viewer the sense of how vivid the sun make everything seem in the middle of the day, when everything is at its brightest. The colors are also used to create shadows and highlights, to emphasize the position of the sun and how it plays a role. This leads to the next similarity, time of the day. Both images were studies of how the sun affects the colors and lighting in the middle of the day. They are also both part of a series. Both Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley painted these pieces as part of series that study how the sun changes how colors appear. These pieces are “studies of single or related subjects painted under different conditions of ‘natural’ light” (Stewart,

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