Finals
Fall Final - Sunrise -Claude Monet - 1872
Reflection
For my final piece, I started far too late, thus i didnt makie it into its glaze firing. I really wanted to exaggerate the colors in the painting instead of muting them. For the most part, the painting really focuses on the boats and the sun making it hard to translate into 3d. If i would have done it again, i would have better attached the trim, started earlier to get theglaze on it, and maybe i couldve tried to make it more 3d.
Plan
I planned to try to make this seemingly simple painting and make it 3-D. There are only a few distinct shapes on the piece: the boats and the sun. So I planned to make a flat sheet, lay it over my slump mould and leave a large flap in the back to make a background, create tiny boats with people on them, a sun, and some spheres to add pazzaz, let the picec dry, then very carfully paint the most prominent shapes and designs, and finaly after a firing glazeing it all with clear.
Artist Background
Monet was born in paris france and when he was five, he moved to Normandy for his father's change in work. In Normandy, he became increasingly more popular due to his unique ability to draw accurate and detailed caricatures of people and sailboats at sea. He met a landscape artist, Eugene Boudin, who taught him to paint outdoors, which was not a common practice at the time. Later, he moved to Paris to study art at Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He rejected traditional art techniques and focused on color and light instead. He was quickly whisked away to the military to fight in Algeria, where he was captivated by the bright lights and colors. Monet's first wife, Camille, was a beautiful woman and is muse. He painted her day and night; they had two sons. Monet adored his family, his father and aunt; however, they did not approve of the relationship, forcing Monet to flee and pretend to have left his pregnant lover. He returned and fled with his wife and son to get away from his disapproving family. I felt drawn to Monet's family life and his endless devotion to his wife, who was taken from him too soon. Monet, to me, is a hopeless romantic with a cliché Romeo and Juliet spin. Camille appears most consistently as her own person, not just an accessory to a family, as his second wife, Alice, was painted. The painting I chose has only indistinct figures on a faraway boat, which I choose to believe is a tie back to Monet's own childhood on the shore, like many of our own here in Santa Cruz County. Monet's undying love for his wife and his sense of home bring me joy and inspiration.
