Saturday, March 13, 2010

"Impression, Soleil",Impressionism and Claude Monet




Port Le Havre is covered in a slight and fuzzy mist and the reflection of the sky could be vaguely seen from the sparkling water surface. Variety of colors make the water a special flicker vision, the boats could just be seen and the changing light of sunrise makes the sky and water really an extraordinary scene. This is the world famous work "Impression, Soleil".
April 15, 1874, an exhibition was held by a group of unknown young artists, and "Impression, Soleil" by the French painter Claude Monet was there as well. The painting was truly displaying the artist's visual impression about the light and color of sunrise at a French port. This work broke through the shackles of traditional painting, so the critics took the title to satirize a group of young painters like Monet who demanded the innovation as "Impressionism", and it is how the impressionist was born.
Impressionist painters accept the theory of optics, which describes that the colors reflect the light irradiation and show a variety of colors under the different conditions of times, environment, climate likewise. Through painting, they find the phenomenon of color that had never been realized and caused a significant innovation in painting.
Monet is a founder of impressionism, one of the most influential impressionism masters. He is a poet snag of "light". He constantly portrayed in the natural landscape under the bright sunshine and described fresh things with consonance and elegant colors. He is one of the courageous practitioners of impressionism and is praised as the purest embodiment of impressionism.

3 comments:

  1. so famous this painting is. thanks to the initiative and creativity of these great artists, our civilization keeps marching forward.

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  2. actually, i cannot quite understand such paintings, but i can faintly feel the beautiful atmosphere it conveys. when i look at the painting, i feel relaxed and calm. i forget all the stress and burden. i think that is why this painting is a great one.

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