FAH245H1 Lecture Notes - Moulin De La Galette, Edgar Degas, Brushstrokes
Document Summary
Freedom, ease of workmanship, lack of finish are things that impressionist painters wish to convey. Claude monet: la grenouillere, 1869 impressionist paintings were generally very small. Monet begins with the intention of creating a conventional picture. During the course of making the sketches for the painting, he discovers that they are more evocative than a finished painting. As we look at the painting close up and see it in its abstract form, we see how it both creates an illusion and shows how that illusion is created. In a traditional historical painting, the compositional sketch, the things that show how a picture is made, the decision making of the artist, are not visible to the viewer. The finished product is shown, none of the unfinished details, it is highly finished. Monet is making those very sketches the finished product, showing how the painting comes to be by seeing the brushstrokes. Very large for an impressionist painting 21/2 meters by.
