One of Claude Monet's inspirations was his family home, as they had beautiful gardens and amazing land. His painting. He loves fine detail, for example the texture of his paintbrushes are smooth and soft and the paintings show freeform motion and we cant see thick brush lines in his worl due to thin brushes. He loved to work with different shades and lights and shows different blends of colour also. Showing how light changes the affect of an item and he turns it to make it compatiable.
Chuck Close uses different techniques and inspirations such as other artists. He loves to use the human figure. His processes seem to take alot longer then the usual artist as some of his work took a year long to process and complete. He gets new inspiration from other artists aswell and make him more motivated to create new work. Oil on canvas was his main materials aswell. Chuck's intentions were to show the idea of self portraits, friends and family.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Cluade Monet
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
- Chuck Close
Both artists use both dark and light colours
Both artists love to use oil and pastels
Both artists are influenced by family and their heritage and things that surround them
Chuck Close , Maggie, 1996, Oil on canvas
Monet completes his work single handed and Close works with other artists. They also have different painting techniques. Subject matter is also different for example chuck does self portraits and monet does landscapes. Their colour schemes are also different as Chuck uses alot of black while Monet dosent.
Their works are amazing. They are very similar on most ways but then again they have their differences. I would much pefer Chuck Close's work as it relates to the human self and shows a different side to the human face/image. It is pleasing to see the way he uses his paintbrush and makes it look effective. This would not have to be my genre of art but it sure does catch my eye, the elements and concepts of the studied works are immaculate and I wouldnt mind having this work in my house or even bedroom
Chuck Close, Leslie, 1973, watercolor on paper on canvas
I like how you discussed a lot about the technique of the artists brush strokes and brushes in the first paragraph because it told me how they got the effect that they did in their work. I liked how when discussing the similarities and differences that you kept it and told me what I needed to know and nothing more. I enjoyed reading your blog. Good job. :)
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting how you discussed each artist's different inspirations. for example, I never knew that Monet was mainly inspired by his family home because of the gardens and landscaping. I find it phenomenal how detailed Close's portraits are, they are almost like a photograph. I also find it amazing how he has achieved such detail, because you wouldn't imagine that using dots of paint would be the best way to achieve great detail, however as Close's paintings show, it is quite the opposite.
ReplyDeletei found monet's paintings were really interesting and how his inspiration for his paintings were his gardens. i thought that his paintings were trying to capture the true essance of nature through his eyes and at around the time he painted them, he was losing his eyesight so he painted what he saw. we can see this because of its blury nature and how we see his work is how he sees it. Close's style of painting over photos is cool. its interesting how he paints each square individually and if viewd all together it creates a pixelated image of the photograph. i find this interesting in an artistic view and is unique.
ReplyDeleteI found that your statements are very interesting how you described and discussed each artists. Also I really prefer the Claude Monet’s paintings with the way how he painted it like techniques. When I paint some paintings I would like to paint it like a Claude Monet's.
ReplyDeleteChuck Close paints were also interesting to me. Because the painted portraits with small squares and when we see it all together, we can see the whole pictures. Some days I like to follow the painting skills that Chuck Close done for his portraits.