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| Claude Monet, Ice Floes, 1893 |
A recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art put me face to face with a wonderful work by Monet, Ice Floes. This is a stunning work, capturing a high degree of control in value and color. What I find fascinating about works like this is the level of objective awareness that the artist needed to have regarding so many of their decisions to pull off a harmonious, well balance painting – composition, mark making, edge control, as well as control of the afore mentioned color and value.
One does not just look at a winter landscape and see this scene. It is a contrived experience, based upon direct observation, – inspired by nature but not beholden to it. It is through these deliberate choices that Monet is able to better clarify his experience of the moment and pass that intent onto us, the viewer. Far too often I see artists beholden to their references, thinking that photography and/or nature offers the truth of seeing. Art is a process which the artist’s mind and hand interpret the world and projects the reshuffled results as a new, distilled experience.
Step away from the mind set that art needs to record and let us understand what it is that you ‘see’.
The painting is gorgeous and the last line of your post is pretty awesome too.
Very nice post! Finding the courage to just do it, not worrying if the scene/painting is too dull and not energetic enough in this sensory-overload world … therein lies my struggle 🙁
Very true and a good reminder.
I have learned that you, the artist, make compelling and award winning images from the mundane. There is never a commission or assignment or opportunity which states before you begin – 'This will be a great piece.' It is all in the artists' hands and mind.
在决定使用某个代写机构的服务之前，必须仔细阅读和理解合同条款，确保了解服务内容、价格结构和责任划分等重要信息。合同中应包括明确的服务承诺、保密协议和退款政策等内容，以保护学生的合法权益。在签署合同之前，务必确保合同条款清晰明确，避免因合同不清晰而产生的纠纷。