Hostess: Cheryl Casker
Title: Hurry, Spring!
Theme: Interpret the gift of life (Spring) that
rises from the death (Winter) that came before it
Technique:
Impressionism incorporating broken color theory that depicts the subtle play of
light and shadow
Due date: March 8, 2014
Having set a historical record for the most snow in one month in
January in the state of Michigan (as well as others), we are more than just a
bit winter-weary and anxiously look forward to the exquisite flora and fauna
that Spring gifts us with each year.
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas
Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
Yesterday the twig was brown
and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey
Color As Light
Impressionism was a new style of painting that emerged
in France at the end of the 19th century. The Impressionist artists were
interested in trying to capture the changing effects of light on the landscape
by using a more exact analysis of tone and color. Their ideas were inspired by
Eugene Chevreul's scientific research into color theory.
The Impressionist artists
abandoned the old idea that the shadow of an object was made up from the color
of the object with some brown or black added. Instead, they enlivened their
canvases with the new idea that the shadow of any color could be mixed from
pure hues and broken up with its opposite color. For example, the shadow on a yellow surface
could have some strokes of lilac painted into it to increase its vitality.
As the Impressionists had
to work quickly to capture the fleeting effects of light, they had to sacrifice
some of the traditional qualities of outline and detail. http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_1.htm
Broken Color
Role of Colour in
Impressionism
Characteristics of American
Impressionism
Resources:
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before
you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square
of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as
it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you own naïve
impression of the scene before you.”
Snow at Argenteuil, 1875
The Water Lilies (series), 1899-1920
Garten at Giverney, 1902
Garden Path at
Giverny, 1902
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, 1899
Gelée Blanche (Hoarfrost), 1873: http://artchive.com/artchive/P/pissarro/frost.jpg.html
Snow Effect at
Eragny, 1894: http://www.camille-pissarro.org/Snow-Effect-at-Eragny,-1894.html
L'Hermitage, 1868 (scroll down to #7): http://camillepisarro.blogspot.com/
Rye Fields at Pontoise, 1868 (3rd
painting down): http://camillepisarro.blogspot.com/
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French 1841–1919 )
“No shadow is black. It
always has a color. Nature knows only colors … white and black are not colors.”
Boating on the Seine, 1879
Two Sisters, 1881
And one final note – have fun with this!
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