Why is Monet a genius who walks between light and color? What is the evidence?

Monet cares about the whole nature. In Monet's paintings, man and nature are harmoniously integrated into the scenery, sunshine and air, and all these are integrated into the painter's unique brilliant, gorgeous but harmonious colors like music. Color is a note that depicts a magnificent natural symphony! Monet studied color. When she was guarding her sick wife, he obsessively observed and looked for signs of fading on her face. What she saw was the subtle changes of blue, yellow and gray. He once said, "When you paint, try to forget the object, a tree and a field in front of you. Think of it as a small piece of blue, a long strip of pink and a yellow, and then draw the color and shape you observe accurately. Until you reach your initial impression. "

Monet attaches great importance to brush strokes, which become the soul of color expression. Different strokes can show different textures and dynamics of things. He used different strokes to fully express colors, so as to conform to the original appearance of nature. At the age of 29, I began to sketch and draw on the Seine with Renoir. They are excited by the flickering light on the water and confused by the ever-changing rich colors, so they naturally produce fast and rough brushstrokes and bright and mottled color blocks. They got an effective way to capture fleeting impressions.

Although the word "impressionism" originated from Monet's masterpiece Impression of Sunrise, I think we should talk about impressionism first, and then talk about his paintings.

In fact, my understanding of impressionism is very simple: it is opposite to realism, regardless of its essence, and only describes what its eyes see (in a simple word, beauty). This so-called impressionism is somewhat similar to photography, which pays attention to light and color and captures moments, so I often think that impressionists must be extraordinary if they can take pictures.

Monet lived to be 86 years old and painted more than 2,000 oil paintings and more than 500 sketches, which can be described as vigorous and vast. But his paintings are so exquisite that they are almost harsh. He personally destroyed more works than any other great painter in the19th century. Impression of Sunrise is not his most typical and outstanding work, but the name of impressionism comes from this painting, so it is famous in history and has a special position. A humorous critic sneered at a group of emerging artists represented by Monet, quoted this painting and dismissed it as "Impressionism". Unexpectedly, this name has been handed down and become the most famous school in the history of human painting.

At dawn, a red, orange and yellow sun rose slowly, struggling to rush out of the calm water, struggling to cut through the thick morning fog and reveal its own face. The morning sunshine dyed the sky, clouds, water, canvas and our vision red.

"Mo Daojun left early", and the three boats had already set sail, swaying slowly, along the water surface, from far and near, slowly out of the dense fog, gradually disappearing into the foreground, quietly, as if unable to bear to wake up the sleeping port capital in the distance, vaguely, and as if afraid of disturbing the audience staring at the sunrise.

Work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and a new day begins.

This is 32-year-old Monet's impression of sunrise. Quiet, hazy, profound, rhythmic, rhythmic, a sketch style, a poetic artistic conception.

Who hasn't seen the sunrise? Many people watch the sunrise in special places and seasons. In order to see clearly, they chose the autumn season. In order to see further, they climbed mountains and cut through thorns. They wore thick clothes, wrapped the whole picture, sat on the floor one hour in advance, waited eagerly and patiently, all in order to seize the moment when the red sun "jumped" from the horizon.

I have had this experience several times.

I have always seen the dazzling golden light hanging high in the morning sun, and I have always seen the cold recede and the whole body is hot, feeling, excited, excited and remembering. That kind of emotion is completely different from the sadness, loss and melancholy when watching the sunset.

Watching the sunrise bring us feelings of life is a good subject for artists. The red sun rises, the sun is soft and strong, and the earth is bright. The ever-changing moments form dynamic pictures. They conceive their own pictures and let them express their own styles.

One of the most important characteristics of impressionist painting is to capture a dynamic and natural moment, freeze it and then draw it.

Instead of shutting themselves in the studio and recreating fictional legends and stories, they set up shelters with folding portable easels and wooden paint boxes, sketched in the wild, moved what they saw to the canvas, and recorded what really happened in their works, turning indoor painting into outdoor art. 。

Some people, as the name implies, think that Impressionism draws by imagination, memory or fiction, but it is actually wrong. Impressionist painting is based on the real world and reflects the real social life. This is a revolution initiated by them for traditional painting, romanticism in pursuit of ideal themes and absolute realism.

Among impressionist painters, Renault is famous for painting naked women, while Germany is famous for painting ballerinas. Monet and pissarro are landscape painters. Monet's landscape paintings are often inseparable from water. He paints rivers, oceans, ponds, coasts and boats, that is, he paints sunrises, two thirds of which are water.

Monet chose the place where he observed the sunrise, not the endless Yuan Ye, not the hilly plateau, but the le havre Harbor where he lived for many years. He is familiar with the coastal scenery here, he loves the water life here, and he is even sensitive to the climate change here, so this landscape painting is full of the breath of life and traces of human nature. Water and light correspond, and the smoke is misty. A few boat leaves make the finishing point, bringing vitality to the painting, and the people on board are looming. ..

In the hazy morning fog, the boundary between the sky and the water is blurred. In the bright sunshine in the morning, the boundary between objects and reflections is blurred. In the distant mixed village, the crane on the factory chimney boat at the upper right is also blurred.

Monet asked the audience to finish what he should have done on the palette on his retina.

This is a brilliant application of "color harmony theory" established by French chemist Schaeffler on Newton's "spectral color" principle in19th century.

Painting is not photography. The photo reflects the outside world intact, and every detail, no matter how many times it is magnified, is absolutely true and loyal to life. However, a good painting can be higher than life, and it is more vivid and vivid only with its unique expression and the participation of the audience's own vision.

This is what we often say, not looking for shape, looking for God.

Unfortunately, most of us prefer to look at paintings with similar shapes. Whether a painting is good or not is always based on whether it looks like a painting. Whether we love a painting or not is often judged by the fineness of the painting.

We often prefer traditional classic paintings, even and delicate brushstrokes, and vivid and meticulous performance. In fact, this often confuses the functions of painting and photography. Impressionism, on the other hand, is a rebellion against traditional techniques, with small strokes and color division, which is near chaos and far away, and near rough and far away, creating a precedent for modern art, and then post-impressionism and expressionism. Abstract ... is surging, painters pay more and more attention to the form of painting, ignoring or even divorced from its plot content. Until the modern abstract school, painting has become a pure color, but its content is unknown.

All this originated from Monet, who deserves to be called the father of impressionism. He first attributed the authenticity of nature to the form of color expression, and excluded the idealized theme from the purpose of painting. He paints in order to use colors. From then on, art is no longer a vassal of depicting objects, but has independent character and independent rights.

Impressionism liberated color, and Monet was a master of using color. Not only that, he is also a master of running out of light.

Modern science tells us that the color of an object is inseparable from light, which is determined by the absorption and reflection of light, especially sunlight.

The influence of sunlight is dynamic. At different times of the day and different seasons of the year, the rays of the sun are ever-changing, and so is the same object.

The morning sun was filtered by the morning fog and turned orange-red. Where there is no sunlight, the object in the shadow is its complementary color-blue. This therapy is a great pioneering work. In classical painting, all the places facing the light are painted in white and bright colors, and the shadows are painted in black and dark colors. Monet's intelligence is really outstanding. The contrast between cool and warm colors, and the blending of bright and dark colors all come from.

If the sun rises at different heights, if the sunrise season is different, and if the climate at that time is different, then the color of the sun, the color of the object and the color of the reflection in the water will be completely different.

No painter in history has consciously used this principle to describe the color changes of the same theme in different seasons, different lights and different weather conditions like Monet. This kind of work is called "continuous work". He painted haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral and London on the Thames. He will draw several, dozens or even dozens of paintings for each theme. He will stand in the same place.

For example, he painted a series of poplars, and whenever the sun leaves a leaf, he turns to draw a canvas.

His greatest masterpiece is that he bought a piece of land opposite his house in his later years, designed and built a Japanese-style water garden, with an arch bridge, a pond and water lilies, and a 200-square-meter oval studio next to it. In his last twenty years, he lived in seclusion, painted behind closed doors and even cut off contact with impressionist friends. The risk of blindness caused by severe cataract and the inconvenience caused by old age, infirmity and physical decline are inevitable. Concentrate, don't draw any other theme, just describe these water lilies, different lights, different seasons, different hours, form a continuous whole, hanging in the oval hall, which is the unparalleled "water lilies" series that shocked the world.

Finally, he dedicated this group of murals to the French government, but asked to store them in his studio.

You can cut some!

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