WAYWACWAPAINTING: AHHHH The Monet Effect....!

Let's do some quick studies of color by working from a master.
Each student is going to create a new painting based on the colors and brushwork seen in a Monet Masterpiece.

The completed "studies" will be assembled into a larger installation in the Academy's main lobby.

More on Claude Monet:
• A french painter, living from 1840 to 1926
• He is known for developing the painting style of "Impressionism".
• He was interested in capturing a moment of time, atmosphere and lighting effects in his paintings.
• He often painted outside, for a short period, the same time each day, to develop his paintings.
• He used a "broken color" technique of overlapping brush strokes and scumbles, which allow the human eye to blend the colors to make vibrant new color. The result is a "shimmering" quality that is more vibrant than the traditional "smooth" painting styles of Monet's time.

Here is the artist

This is one of his paintings called "Impression, Sunrise", painted 1872. This painting is said to have started the style of Impressionism.

Monet created series of paintings to study light and color effects.

Here is "Haystacks", 1890-1891

This is "Rouen Cathedral, Facade (Sunset)", 1892-1894

Monet eventually built an elaborate garden and pond at his home in Giverny, France, as a resource for more paintings. The colors and textures found in the landscape and water surfaces were inspiration for his experiments.

One example of his work from the garden is, "Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies", painted 1899

Here is a detail of the bridge painting

Monet created a series of paintings working from the reflective surface of the pond. Because he was looking down onto the water surface, the paintings have no sense of "sky" or ground. The paintings become abstractions- some of the first of their kind. These are huge canvases, meant to fill your vision with color and texture.

Here is Monet working on the paintings