Name: 超越表象-探索莫內（Beyond the Surface | Discovering Monet）
Uploaded: 2022-05-10T18:18:50.000Z
Duration: 7 min 40 s
Description: 介紹印象派大師莫內生平及畫風

Monet experimented with a radical new approach

He began painting the same motif at different times of day

the changing effects of light and atmosphere.

into how Monet painted his most iconic subjects.

Stacks of wheat in the French countryside,

and his garden at Giverny, outside of Paris.

- [Monet] "It takes a great deal of work to succeed

the same light diffused over everything."

These stacks of wheat were common in rural France

For Monet, their appeal was both visual and symbolic,

they represented sustenance and survival.

of the 25 known "Stacks of Wheat" paintings,

which Monet produced between late summer 1890

He worked on multiple canvases at the same time

The stacks' simple form allowed the artist

to explore the effects of changing atmospheric conditions.

started painting from direct observation outdoors

and often revised each composition later in his studio.

The blanket of snow was also a later addition.

Small gaps in the brushwork reveal glimpses

of bright green paint beneath the snow-covered field,

confirm that each of the Art Institute's paintings

was revised and adjusted to different degrees.

The complex layers of paint on each canvas

attest to Monet's painstaking efforts to unify the series.

- [Monet] "There was an extraordinary fog, quite yellow;

I made a pretty good impression, I think;

It's always more beautiful than the rest,

Monet made three trips to London between 1899 and 1901,

painting some of the city's most recognizable landmarks.

Working from his room at the Savoy hotel,

and under varying weather conditions, painting it 41 times.

and painted the city softened by its effect.

In this work, he used a carefully coordinated palette

across the surface of the whole painting.

As a result, the architectural structures

seem to dissolve into their surroundings.

distinguish vehicles passing over the bridge.

These brilliant colors transform the most ephemeral element,

into one of the most tangible features of the composition.

- [Monet] "These landscapes of water and reflections

and yet I want to succeed in rendering what I feel."

visited Monet at Giverny on behalf of the Art Institute.

document the artist's Japanese-inspired wooden bridge

a denser coverage of water lilies in the foreground.

capturing both the vegetation on the water's surface

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