I originally wanted to learn how to draw pixel art today, but I got frustrated after a few strokes, so I started surfing the internet. I surfed on Google Arts for a while and experienced some art.
This painting is Monet's classic "Woman with a Parasol". The person in the painting is Monet's wife, Camille, and next to her is their young son. I feel that this painting is very lively. It only uses colors like blue, green, and brown, which are very common in nature, giving a very comfortable and peaceful feeling. The composition of his wife and son in the picture forms a very good balance. Although this is an early work by Monet, you can already see the excellent capture of light and shadow. The highlights on the umbrella, the shadows formed by the folds of the clothes and the position of the son, are all distinguished,
It feels like being in the same grassland, enjoying the same breeze.
Some additional information#
I searched for related information. When painting this painting, Camille was already terminally ill. Looking at her loved one about to leave, the wind seems to be able to take her away. After Camille's death, I saw Monet let his stepdaughter pose in the same place in the same posture and painted two more "Woman with a Parasol". The sky in those two paintings is not as bright as the original sky, although the composition and colors are very similar to the original, except that the faces are completely blurred.
Perhaps from these three paintings, we can see Monet's pain. He can only commemorate Camille in this way.
In fact, if you use Google Arts to sort the artist's works by time, you can see that Monet liked to paint portraits in his early works, gradually painting fewer people starting from the 1880s. Even if he painted people, they were just casually depicted and not significant.
And in his later works, there are no people at all, only water lilies and sunsets.