Morning on the Seine near Giverny
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| Claude Monet, Morning on the Seine near Giverny, 1897 |
Light pierces the tree line, but the shadows of
night linger over the river. Trees move
according to the morning breeze. The
waters of the Seine capture all these in nature’s mirror. The world has awakened.
Claude Monet painted Morning on the Seine near Giverny in 1897 on a boat that he had converted into a maritime studio. Monet worked on the Seine River series from 1896 to 1897. He would leave his house, located in Giverny, France, before the sun rose and go out on his boat to paint the same spot over and over again. These paintings of the Seine showed Monet just how much light affected his art because each painting looks unique,despite their common background and composition.
All paintings in the Seine series possess Monet’s blurry brushstrokes. This out of focus collage of trees and water was typical of the Impressionist painters that Monet led. The trees in Morning have no definite outlines and end in blobs of color. This technique conveys the motion of the scene. The trees shake in the wind and the river ripples as Monet’s boat and other forces disturb the water’s surface. In Morning, Monet captures the constant movement and liveliness of nature. The blurred movement in Impressionist paintings received inspiration from the newly made technology of photography. When one moved while taking a photo, the picture would become blurred, ruining the photograph. Impressionists saw a photographer’s mistake and used it to represent movement in art.
Monet’s Morning on the Seine near Giverny may act as one in a series, but its use of light and shadows make it unique. The early sun in Morning illuminates the top right hand corner. The light pierces through the trees in a triangular shape, causing for a divide in the shading of the trees. Where the light strikes the trees, the shadows that obstruct the onlooker’s view of the finer details in the trees disappears. These aspects are also mirrored in the water’s reflections of the scene. The final outcome happens to be a lack of the blurriness in the triangle of light that allows the viewers to find the literal end of the branches. Monet’s experiment in lighting resulted in unique pictures of the same scene that all possess a staple of the Impressionist movement.
Claude Monet painted Morning on the Seine near Giverny in 1897 on a boat that he had converted into a maritime studio. Monet worked on the Seine River series from 1896 to 1897. He would leave his house, located in Giverny, France, before the sun rose and go out on his boat to paint the same spot over and over again. These paintings of the Seine showed Monet just how much light affected his art because each painting looks unique,despite their common background and composition.
All paintings in the Seine series possess Monet’s blurry brushstrokes. This out of focus collage of trees and water was typical of the Impressionist painters that Monet led. The trees in Morning have no definite outlines and end in blobs of color. This technique conveys the motion of the scene. The trees shake in the wind and the river ripples as Monet’s boat and other forces disturb the water’s surface. In Morning, Monet captures the constant movement and liveliness of nature. The blurred movement in Impressionist paintings received inspiration from the newly made technology of photography. When one moved while taking a photo, the picture would become blurred, ruining the photograph. Impressionists saw a photographer’s mistake and used it to represent movement in art.
Monet’s Morning on the Seine near Giverny may act as one in a series, but its use of light and shadows make it unique. The early sun in Morning illuminates the top right hand corner. The light pierces through the trees in a triangular shape, causing for a divide in the shading of the trees. Where the light strikes the trees, the shadows that obstruct the onlooker’s view of the finer details in the trees disappears. These aspects are also mirrored in the water’s reflections of the scene. The final outcome happens to be a lack of the blurriness in the triangle of light that allows the viewers to find the literal end of the branches. Monet’s experiment in lighting resulted in unique pictures of the same scene that all possess a staple of the Impressionist movement.
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