On Sunday, October 28, at 12:45, we met as a class at Morris Museum. We had a chance to tour and browse the Impressionist artwork that made it through that exhibit. Luckily, I got some photos of the artwork to keep. While there, one work of art that really stood out to me was the Charleston Doorway by Anthony Thorne. There are many reasons that make this piece apart of the impressionist appeal. Anthony Thorne was a Southern American Impressionist so his term serves a little later than the true Impressionist era but his work is so deserving of such.
One touch that the piece has is the brush stroke it has. By looking, you see the incomplete and emotional strokes it takes, as every color isn't thoroughly meshed, meticulous and thorough but blend so well. That deviation from realism is what makes it special. Unique to it also, that most Impressionists had of the time was the removal of black. Also apparent is that even though shadows are casted, they are not always black but only a shade of the actual color, as opposed to the teneberism by Caravaggio as in The Calling of Saint Matthew with his absolute blacks to emit emotion in a piece. An extreme motion in that manner shown in this piece is the white blotch placed in the middle of the door. What makes these paintings so profound is that one, as you get closer, the viewer can see the "true" texture it has, as it is not smooth and layered like paintings of the past. Also unique is that as you come closer and closer to the painting it becomes more and more distorted virtually looking like a color “blah”. These unique features are some of the unique and general forms an impressionist work of art will take on.
The fabulous component of these impressionist painters is one their love to be outside and with the new discoveries in technology, the once hindered inside approach was taken outside with the discovery or metal tubes allowing paint to last longer and the manifestation of the camera which was what the painters attempt, by capturing the fleeting moment in time, as it happened, right then, like a photograph from a camera. Living live as it happens, in the present. As you can see the painting is taking forth outside and the picturesque feature it has is the essence of the shadows as if you knew the direction you were facing you would possibly be able to tell the time. It would capture what is called the "Fleeting Moment", which can be described as the moment, at that exact moment. This can be compared to the photograph of a landscape as if you were on a train. The background may be still and solid, but the the foreground and other parts that aren't in focus will end up faded and blended.
Work that has used in class is Chekov’s, The Cherry Orchard. The similarities that these two works have beyond the fact that they are both Impressionist works are they founding features. The Cherry Orchard similar to the photograph approach artist took was that the literature is presented to the reader in the present. This story is expressed as though the author is living the story as though he is one of the characters. It is exposed in the present, and in its timely and chronological manner. It is illustrated as though it is a photograph presented in words. As the Chekov tries to the give the reader a one-on-one feeling with each character by fulfilling different dialogues, so does the artist pull you into the paintings nature with its “photograph”.
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