Claude Monet

in 1880s. Impressionism is about reality, expressions, sensations, and the use of the boldness of colours. Artists such as Edward Manet and Gustave Courbet were two artists who opened the door to impressionism. But the artist who started it was Claude Monet. In 1870s Impressionist artists began to produce paintings which showed their sensations, they painted on small…

Lequien. Then he started training under artist Henri Lehmann when he attended École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1878 to 1879. However, Seurat choose to leave the school and continue to study on his own. He was very influenced by Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, and their way of representing light and atmosphere through their paintings. Another fascination Seurat had was the science behind art. Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors, written…

The earlier art period; Impressionism is a distinctive time in art history that took place from 1870-1890. Artists during this period focused on ordinary subjects and objects found in nature. They paid close attention to optical effects, and how the light reflected off their subjects during different times of the day. Painters during this period were known as “Impressionist’s”. Characteristics of Style An impressionist painting is identified by the characteristics of small, thin yet, visible…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Portrait of Dr.Gachet The Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh is sorrowful, but alluring. Iam drawn to this piece because of the heavy brush strokes and the usage of dark colors, and because of this I automatically knew there was more to the story as I analyzed-- from the subject's facial expression to the purple flower lying on the table. I began to know more about this painting’s story as I investigated Vincent’s past and other works. The greatest dutch painter…

Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh) known for many of his famous artworks, was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Vincent van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, Netherlands. He was born exactly 1 year after his brother’s (Vincent), who was stillborn. With his name and birthdate carved onto his brother’s grave, van Gogh was already feeling sadness at a very young age. Growing up with a pastor, van Gogh thought he was bound to become gospel. Years later, he found his true nature in art. When…

With Manet being championed by other artists as a leader of the avant-garde, he was like that by just being loose, open brushwork and sometimes in commonplace subjects. Some other revolutionary works that involved impressionism through artists were Claude…

Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies of Claude Monet and the ukiyo-e print Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa of Katsushika Hokusai. Through making comparison of these two artworks, I will mainly describe the stylistic difference and study some differences between Western and Eastern art and society. First of all, I am going to talk about the background information of Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies. This artwork represents the two greatest achievements of Monet which are his gardens at Giverny…

Seeing is a distant way of learning and exchanging with communicating. Moreover, seeing is a way to empower an individual to describe to the environment. In the article “ Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, he states that “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak”(145). Every one of us sees things differently because stationary and individual can be different. An opinion can never make settlement because there are stand together between the words used and the…

Perception in art represents the relation between the artwork and observing eye of the audience and how it affected his current state. It is the framework where we can link the art and the individual opinion about it. Perception depends mainly on the status if observation and evaluation of the art. There is not a universal perception that we could refer to, however, many variant parameters, including political, social, cultural, gender and racial. These parameters affect how we see art and what…

are those of Italian, Flemish, Dutch and Spanish painting. Some famous artists represented are El Greco, Ribera José, Rembrandt and Frans Hals. The collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist is rich. It includes more than 30 paintings by Claude Monet, one of his series The Saint-Lazare station, including six of the haystacks and some Water lilies. Important works of Renoir, such as Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise and Two Sisters on the Terrace, as well as those of Paul Cézanne Bathers,…