Impression Sunrise

Impression Sunrise

Claude Monet

1873

Claude Monet is one of those artists that I had to encounter a lot less that all those surrealistic and abstract ones and that’s a big shame considering he has a lot of magnificent pieces. So most of the time I get to look at them and wonder about in the landscapes he created. One of my favourite pieces is called 'Impression, sunrise' and that’s mainly because most of his other works are a more elegant, they have lots of this happiness in them and sort of have this 'Upper Class' feeling in them. This particular work though has very interesting elements of "The sun is set against the dawn, the orange colour against the grey and the vibrant force of the sun against its motionless surroundings."(Colour, Vision and Art) which makes it look different to people. To some its said to give different looks because of how the brain perceives it, but to me its always this early foggy summers morning with fishermen floating around the dockyards. It's just so beautiful; you can get lost in it immediately and imagine yourself being a hard 19th century labourer working as a fisherman

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Image Link: http://www.theartwolf.com/articles/impressionism/monet-soleil.jpg

Colour, Vision & Art, Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise, [online], avalible at: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/monet.html (accessed at 07/11/12)