In the impression, the original outline of this content was still posted in the QQ space, and now, there is no content in the QQ space. Fortunately, I left a manuscript and took advantage of the holidays to sort out these contents.
Orangerie Museum
On December 6, 1925, Monet bid farewell to the world.
This was his second day after completing the large mural "Water Lilies".
It seems that before he was born, he knew that he was leaving, so he desperately painted and painted- it seems that many big people will explode with amazing creativity before they know that their lives will end, such as Jobs. Before leaving, he finally left his last great work for this beloved world.
If you have the chance to visit the Musée des Orangeries in Paris, you will be able to see six giant Works of Monet's water lilies. This small art museum is famous for these six works.
The view of "Water Lilies" comes from Monet's Garden, which is located in the small town of GIVERNY, which Monet moved to after becoming famous, where Monet built his own gardens and water gardens.
Nihonbashi
In addition to the famous "Water Lilies" series, Monet also completed his "Nihonbashi" series here.
Having read such poems before, it seems to fit Monet and his garden—
If I had a long vacation, I would go on a long trip with my dreams.
If I had a yard, I would plant jasmine in it.
If I had an early morning, I would have to touch the scent of dewy earth.
Monet is known as the founder of Impressionism, and his life had various struggles, about life, about love, about light and shadow.
This is an artist who will paint the remains of a beloved woman with a brush and paint to mourn after her death. I've never read such a "thrilling" scene in the biographies of other artists, and I still haven't really understood how he could have acted like this—although some previous articles have said it was because of deep love, I think it's just the surface, or, as a painter with very different talents, it's an instinctive reaction.
There are many paintings in the "Water Lilies" series that are very large and large, and there is a wall so big that there are not many oil paintings in this area. Unlike the medieval or Renaissance, when churches look up to look up with magnificent works, large-scale paintings like this emphasize not the sacred and the shocking, but a macroscopic perspective.
For painting and architecture, although both are something that emphasizes a sense of wholeness, the fine treatment of details on buildings is much easier to observe than the fine treatment of painting.
Monet's "Water Lilies", if you look closely, is a bunch of color clusters. Only by standing far away can you see the richness of water lilies all over the pool.
When creating "Water Lilies", although Monet's eyesight has not been as good as before, the use of painting techniques has been quite skilled, and the light and shade embellishments of colors are extremely in place, very realistic - oil painting, that is, using a brush to wipe and scratch.
As a result, some "critics" at that time believed that Monet had departed from the "artistic conception" emphasized in Impressionism and "reduced" to a reprinter of reality.
I don't know if these "critics" were in the same group of people who ridiculed the Impressionists, or if the two groups were related by blood. But there is no denying that people just like all kinds of upside-down black and white.
At this time, Monet's paintings were exported to the European and American markets, and he had achieved fame, and he did not need to pay attention to the vicious comments of that year, but only quietly painted the world he wanted to paint.
Monet's Garden is monet's own peace of mind.
Unlike Picasso, who became famous after various "crossover" and "pleasure-seeking" artists, Monet has been pursuing tranquility and peace.
Haystack
Monet is not known to the public for a set of group drawings is "Haystack" or "Haystack", if any of the "Water Lilies" group picture of any of the reproductions, as long as hung on the wall can make an elegant decoration, but "Haystack" such a picture, it seems a little "not so colorful".
"Haystack" is a group of pictures, that is, scenes at different times from a perspective, if we can calm down and compare, we can perceive the difference between the same thing after experiencing the change of seasons.
If it were you, could you sit quietly in front of a pile of haystacks, thinking of nothing but drawing quietly and quickly for hours or even days?
At least, I can't do it because I'm unsettled.
If "Sunrise Impression" represents Monet's wanton depiction of a landscape by virtue of his youth, the "Haystack" group picture means Monet's acceptance and devotion to a quiet life, and "Nihonbashi" and "Water Lilies" express the artist's tiredness and avoidance of the world.
In the 1890s, Monet was more than 50 years old when he created "Haystack", and for such a person who has experienced the changes of the world for half a century, the original passion is not a smoke cloud, most of it has become a thing of the past, and it can continue to talk with light and shadow in a calm and peaceful state, becoming all the pursuits of the second half of life.
To be sure, like Monet's paintings, there aren't too many images, he just paints what he sees, or what he wants the viewer to see.
When we are confronted with a beautiful and famous painting like Water Lilies, how to look at the painting is a problem that every viewer will encounter.
With the progress of the times, idle people will always want to show their tastes in various ways, and there are many books and materials on guiding people to appreciate paintings, such as Gombrich's "The Story of Art", popular such as "1111 Paintings You Must Know in Your Life" (the title is fabricated).
If you want to be lazy, open the browser, enter keywords, and a large amount of information is exploded, it seems that everything is "under control". I think the rise and popularity of Impressionism, including the birth of modern art, is a reminder that the most essential thing in appreciating a work of art should be our feelings—not the "feelings you should have" that others tell you.
When we were young, we were forced to recite the "beautiful passages" of various texts and modern texts, but do we really understand its beauty? How many people, like me, "know only its righteousness, but do not know its taste"? And, so far, is some of its [meaning] really the author's original intention?
I think that every work of art that can be passed down to the world, no matter what the theme of its birth, the feelings and memories it carries are not exactly the same or common to the feelings and memories we had when we first saw it. The French art historian Daniel Arras once wrote a book called "We Don't See Anything", which once put forward a more "mean" but interesting point - "What the art of painting wants to show us, we don't actually see, we don't see anything!" “
To use the more literary and artistic terms of reading, it is like this -
At first, you may feel, "I don't understand" or "I don't know what you're trying to say";
At first, you may feel that "there is no clear worldview" or "no complete persona";
At first, you may feel, "There's too much exaggerated satire" and "there's too much cumbersome lyricism";
At the beginning, you may feel that "the logic is confused", "the plot is complicated", "I don't know what to do";
In the beginning, you will have a lot of "feelings" that I feel and "feelings" that I don't feel.
I just want to say that all the layouts are not casually placed;
I just want to say that all conversations are not piled up haphazardly;
I just want to say that this is probably a story that you can understand from the beginning to the end;
I just want to say that this is probably a story that requires you to dig carefully to know each metaphor;
I just want to say that reading itself is a journey that you can follow all the time or get off the bus halfway through.
Note: The above paragraph is "made" by stacking words, purely for the sake of cou (zi) pleasure (shu).
I think that there is no standard answer to "understanding" in art, and if we include modern literature in the category of works of art, it is also applicable.
There is no standard answer to the meaning of a work of art, and we do not have to wonder whether a rain really shows the desolation of the character's heart, the shape, size, color, new and old, precious and poor, elegant or eccentric, the artist's fame and no name, a series of feelings that can trigger you, only feelings are your standard answers.
We go to admire Monet's paintings, or to feel the fragrance of flowers and plants in Monet's garden, just to make our emotions unique, to find some places elsewhere that can resonate with us.
The greatness of works of art and artists depends on the number of times they are mentioned, in other words, the number of times you have some fluctuations in your heart.