Answer TWO of the
following as a Comment below:
1. How did the death of
Camille, Monet’s wife, change his artistic path? What new subject matter did he seek out, and how might his
approach to painting have changed in general?
Cite a specific painting in your response.
2. What did Monet mean
by the statement, “[he] imagined what it would have been like to be born blind
and then suddenly be able to see, and to paint, without knowing what the thing
one saw actually was?” (55). How would
this help him ‘see’ painting in a new and fresh way? Why would you not want to know what you are painting?
3. What was so unique
and groundbreaking about his series of paintings on the Rouen Cathedral? What was he trying to achieve in them, and
why might they have become his first commercial success?
Nikki Ennis
ReplyDelete1. After the death of Camille, Monet stopped painting people. She had been the only model he had ever used, so her started painting more landscapes instead. Directly after her death, his paintings reflected his state of mind. They were darker and appeared more solemn in nature. This can be seen as an example in "Ice Floes at Vetheuil". There are no people or forms of wildlife, just the frozen river. There is no warmth to this painting, because Monet was painting with a broken heart.
2. Monet felt that a person's first clear look at something was the most honest because it wasn't spoiled by prejudices and preconceptions (55). If he painted things he had never seen before, he wouldn't use other influences or memories to paint them. It would be completely his own, and completely new.
Josh Coats
ReplyDelete1. Camille's death really took a toll on Monet because she was his muse in all of his paintings...how was he to keep painting? After her death, his paintings lacked warmth, and his brushwork was disturbed and angry. On page 47 we see Ice Floes at Vetheuil demonstrates his lack of warmth, which comes from the frozen river.
2. Seeing an object for the first time allows you to not have any prejudices or ideas about the object. Whatever you decide to paint is strictly your idea. Your paintings would be fresh and new because seeing something for the first time allows you to make your own ideas of the subject.
Teresa Buretta
ReplyDelete3) This was the first time in western art history that one subject had been painted over and over by the same artist. Monet was not only showing the cathedral at different times of the day, but also experimenting with light and color. Since color evokes emotion, this may have elicited a more positive response from the public because in one painting or another, one is bound to find a color that provokes an emotional response.
4) Once again, the emotion is what is alive between the artist and the subject. In "Villas at Bordighera" on p. 62, Monet despaired of all the blues in the scene. His mood was completely different when he painted the top scene than when he painted the bottom one.
Aimee Elmore
ReplyDelete2) Everyone sees an object differently. No one sees colors exactly the same. If you look at an object for the first time and then you paint it, the painting will become completely different than if someone painted it after seeing it for a while. The colors, the shadows, the light. Everything will be different, because you are fascinated with what you see. If you pass by the object everyday than it loses something. It will look like just an random object. But the other paint will take care of the object. He will want to get it right.
1) The death of his wife hit him hard. He didn't paint people that much any more and his painting were darker. The didn't real focus on the scenery or anything. They were hazy like Vetheuil in the Mist. There is a town but it is no the focus. At least that's not what i focus on. I focus on the darkness, and the sadness of the picture.
Stephanie Callen
ReplyDelete1. How did the death of Camille, Monet’s wife, change his artistic path? What new subject matter did he seek out, and how might his approach to painting have changed in general? Cite a specific painting in your response.
He no longer painted people because Camille was his only model. His work was blue and gray shadows and his brush strokes were disturbed and angry. The painting "Ice Floes at Vetheuil" shows his mood. Monet began to move towards painting series.
2. What did Monet mean by the statement, “[he] imagined what it would have been like to be born blind and then suddenly be able to see, and to paint, without knowing what the thing one saw actually was?” (55). How would this help him ‘see’ painting in a new and fresh way? Why would you not want to know what you are painting?
If you were seeing something for the first time there would be no prejudices only fascination. If you didn't know what you were painting then you wouldn't be emotional one way or another.
Stefan Schodlbauer
ReplyDelete1) In my opinion, when Monet's wife dies (Camille), he starts to be a different painter, because of his new style. Instead of painting people, he went for a topic more darker and sophisticated. We can appreciate paintings with landscape for example a painting in London's sunset with a castle. For sure, he reflects in these paintings his feelings and we can see that he was kind of upset and sad because of the colors that where more darker.
2) From my point of view, everyone can see the same picture or landscape and paint something totally different. This is because of the imagination that each one haves.As we saw in class, a Monet's fan wanted to appreciate the same views that Monet had and try to paint the same. This is impossible because in a portrait from Monet we can see his own feelings and his talent that where unique.
Amory Morgan
ReplyDelete1. Camilles death influenced Monet by changing the way he painted. She was the "muse" to all of his paintings. He used her as a model for all of the paintings with people in them. Now that she is gone he doesn't paint people anymore. His colors changed, he uses dark paints, more reds and charcoals. Like the painting we viewed in class today, the castle that almost looked like it was on fire. Or to some people looked like a reflection of the sun on the water. His paintings became more dark.
2. Seeing something for the first time helps you create your own opinion about it. You wouldn't think about anything else but what you first created in your mind about it. There wouldn't be any prejudices against it. It would help him paint just by the fact that it would be his own and no one elses.
Stormee Chestra
ReplyDelete1. The death of his wife Camille changed the way he painted. She was really the reason of his paintings. Instead of painting the people now he looked for something more dark. His paintings definitely reflect his feelings on the matter.
2.Whenever any two people look at the same painting they can both see something different. Maybe the artist focused more on the landscape or the people in the picture. Most of Monet fans appreciated his paintings, because he let them see it through his eyes.
Weston Haynes
ReplyDelete1.) Camille's death proved to be a big blow to Monet personally and artistically, but in a way it wasn't all that negative when it came to his paintings after Camille's death. It did change however, he began to just not paint people at all in his paintings and left them out altogether. His paintings did not include the realistic texture that people became accustomed to. He still included pictures that jumped out at you because of its realness, but not as much. The paintings were more blurry, which could possibly resemble how Monet viewed life after Camille's death. Monet lacked warmth, security, and calmness, and we saw that in his paintings. They were still miraculous pictures, but all the same there was something different in Monet's souls and paintings.
2.) I like to think that Monet thought that when you something or someone for the first time, its a fresh feeling, and there is no disturbances or preconceptions about that image. All you have is your opinions and your view of what you see. You can paint it how you see it, because its honest, and nobody can take that away from you. You don't have to convey a certain feeling that everyone wants you to paint in this new image. You can paint it in any style or image you want.