In the colorful world of painting, some people like exciting red; some people like calm blue; and I think Monsieur Monet should prefer pure and sacred white.
Claudius Monet was one of the most important and greatest artists of Impressionism, and Monet's research on color is still a page in art history that cannot be skipped. When it comes to Monet, people usually focus on his most famous "Sunrise Impression", or in the beautiful "Water Lilies" series, which is understandable, because the origin of the term Impressionism is the work "Sunrise Impression", and let everyone know him, it is "Water Lilies" created by Monet in his later years, although he suffered from cataracts but still had a sense of color. Few people know that in his lifetime, Monet created more than 140 paintings about snow scenes, which are not a series of works, but a series of works.
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionism, which followed the light, came into being, and its greatness lies in the fact that many Impressionist artists captured the fleeting beauty in an instant, which became an important factor in breaking the dominance of traditional classical painting in the interior. The painters went outside, put on their easels, and engaged in a sketching contest against time. As the leader of Impressionism, Claudine Monet has a special love for ice and snow, to know that sketching is actually a "hard work", although the winter in France is not severely cold, but when the snow season comes in November, few people are willing to go out to sketch, and Monet is an exception.
One day in December 1868, the heavy snow in France arrived as scheduled, and the snow stopped, and Monet, who stood in the snow, completed a masterpiece: "Magpie". It was created by Monet when he traveled to Le Havre on the banks of the Seine from Banakourt to Le Havre. In 1845, Monet's family moved to the port city of Le Havre in Normandy in northern France, where he spent a happy childhood, and although he became famous for his satirical illustrations, he was still a drop in the bucket. At the end of 1868, Monet's economic situation was not very good, and not far from Monet's home, he went out to sketch and saw this magpie in the snow, which flew from a distance and landed on a lonely fence, shaking its head and as if it were about to fly. For Chinese, the magpie is auspicious and lucky, but in the West, it is the opposite, the magpie means "the person who loves to rap and manipulate right and wrong" and "the person who loves to store scattered and eight pieces of goods". And it is this black and white magpie and this gray sky that reflects Monet's inner loss, the soft sunlight in the picture hits the thick snow, and the white snow and golden sunlight seem to shine into Monet's heart, so that the world that is already gloomy has light. The unlikable magpie in the painting also seems to be the only creature in this quiet world, and Monet himself calls the magpie crouching on the fence a "lonely note" on the entire score, becoming the finishing touch in the whole snow scene, and vividly depicting the beauty and lightness of this winter countryside beauty.
Monet , Magpie
Scorpio Monet in the matter of painting for ten minutes, whenever it snows in France, Monet began to sort out the painting tools, rushed to his long-selected scenic spots, with a passionate brush to record this silver-clad world metropolis or no one's countryside, record their own era. Most of Monet's early ice and snow works are in the study of ambient color and light and shadow, in the gentle silver gray tone, the elegant and mysterious blue-purple shade is mixed, reflecting the tranquility and serenity brought by ice and snow. In his mid-period snow scene creations, the ukiyo-e style that influenced many art schools at that time was integrated, and the most important perspective of the traditional painting elements in the picture was no longer important, but was replaced by more colorful colors. In the snow-white ice and snow world in the painting, all the light intersects with the ice and snow, reflecting the vitality in the original desolate winter. In the late Monet's ice and snow works, any brushstrokes and colors seem to be no longer real, and in the very decorative picture, the brush appears in the snow white in the color, becoming the shining point in many colors, pure and sacred, and can not tolerate a little filth, just like The legendary life of Monet.
Monet , Snowy Scene of Argenteuil "
With his long life of 86 years old, Mr. Monet has consistently poured his creative enthusiasm into painting, and with his good light and shadow expression techniques, he has vividly depicted the snow scene, so that people can feel the warmth in the cold winter. Monet's original artistic theory and unswerving spirit of inquiry played a leading role in the emergence and development of Impressionism. His stubbornness, enthusiasm and talent rush forward like a turbulent waterfall, touching all the beings around him who are as full of vitality as him; and his simple, innocent, and eternal pursuit of truth personality flows through people's hearts like a clear and clean stream, pouring out beautiful flowers of the soul. And his life is also like his white snow: pure, tough, warm, seemingly cold but can reflect the brilliant sunshine, is a touch of snow in the seven colors, vigorous and vibrant. (Editor-in-charge: Sun Xiaoning)