Monet is popular because of his use of color. In l967 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, under its new director Thomas Hoving, acquired Monet’s La Terrace à Sainte-Addresse for 1.4 million. Monet had painted it in 1867, at the age of twenty-seven and had sold it for pittance because as a new [...]
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Left-Right: Claude Monet, La Terrace à Sainte-Addresse
Posted in Color, Composition, Landscape, Left-Right, Technique and Demo, tagged color Thomas Hoving, composition, Down, golden section, left-righ, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet, optimism, Sainte-Address on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Left-Right: Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte”
Posted in Color, Composition, Landscape, Left-Right, literalness, tagged composition, culture, isolation, monkey, Paris, prostitute, Seurat on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) worked on this his most famous painting for two years. No wonder. It’s ten feet long and consists of dots of paint the size of a pin head. Much of the avant-guard art at the time concerned itself with ocular issues: the interaction of color, optical illusions involving color, retinal aftereffects of [...]
Monet, “On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt”
Posted in Composition, Left-Right, Technique and Demo, tagged boat, downer, empathy, Left-Right, Monet, mood, Seine, tranquil, woman on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Claude Monet (1840-1926) painted “On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt” in 1868. He was only twenty-eight. It’s brilliant. The brush strokes are lively, the colors are tranquil. But is the feeling of the painting as a whole tranquil? I don’t think so. I think it’s gloomy. Why does this painting have a dark mood [...]
Honored at Evanston Art Center and Bird on Beach
Posted in Achievement, Composition, Left-Right, tagged bird on beach, Donation, Evanston Art Center, honored, Left-Right on October 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
For the second time in a year a student has shown appreciation for my teaching by making a donation to the Evanston Art Center in my honor. Thank you, thank you! I wanted an image for this post, of course, and found this one from about a month ago, taken at Gillson Beach, Wilmette, in [...]
The Lake, Flipped
Posted in Composition, Left-Right, literalness, tagged lake, Left-Right, mood, stormy on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The lake has presented us with oceanic drama lately. A student in my landscape painting class said, it’s like being on Cape Cod. My little palm sized Sony does its best, but fails at recording the dramatic impact, the roar, the wind, the chill, the sheer excitement. All I get is a composition. Lines and [...]
Georg Innes, “Going Home”
Posted in Composition, Landscape, Left-Right, tagged Innes, landscape, Left-Right, people on August 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This painting by George Innes (1825-1894) was painted in 1870. It’s large, 48 3/4 x 72 5/8 in. It’s the first of several paintings I want to look at in this blog with a certain question in mind: what happens when you flip the image? In this case, does it matter that the house is [...]
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