My chosen artist was Claude Monet, and one of his most well known painting “Haystacks”. French impressionist, Claude Monet played a significant role abstract art. Though “Abstraction” was never a movement, it displayed the evolvement of various artists and their experimentation.
French impressionism came around the 1870’s and was known for the powerful colours and the everyday motifs in which were displayed. It wasn’t until the 19th century, where colour was then thought to be an essential property of an object, like density or melting point.
Monet demonstrated this development and painted outdoors as opposed to the studio environment. Thus “Haystacks” was painted under different light condition at different times of the day. He would rise before dawn , paint the first canvas for half an hour and by then the light would have changed. Then he would switch to the second canvas ad so on. The next day he would repeat this process.
In each painting, the color of the haystack is different because the light shining on the haystack is different. The color of the haystack is determined by the colors the haystack absorbs. The color we see is simply the colorized light that is not absorbed and that is reflected into our eyes.
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