- Claude Monet and his family moved to Giverny in 1883 and rented a 2 acre property, Over the years of living there his family grew their gardens and eventually bought the house, Monet built on to the landscape and it became his inspiration for many of his nature paintings, with its ponds, bridges and water lilies, On which he worked on from the mid 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, I think his intentions were to show the same subject matter but painted during different varieties of light and demonstrate how that light changes the subject matter. Chuck Close I believe he was trying to explore the relationship between photography and painting in terms of the human figure, based on the use of a grid as an underlying basis for the representation of an image.
- Chuck Close’s process is a very time consuming one, with prints often taking over a year to complete. His process includes carving linoleum blocks then draws on them his subject matter and applies acid to his etching plates, and then personally directs all the handwork involved in pulp-paper multiples. Often Close collaborates with other artists to perfect his work and get new inspiration. Claude Monet would want to capture his landscape at a certain point in the day or evening when the suns light would strike and give him inspiration; this often called him to wake up at 3.30am to get the morning light, and then paint throughout the day using oil on canvas.
"Imagine a circular room...covered with [paintings of] water, dotted with these [water lily] plants to the very horizon, walls of a transparency alternately green and mauve, the calm and silence of the still waters reflecting the open blossoms. The tones are vague, deliciously nuanced, with a dreamlike delicacy." - Monet said to a writer friend in 1898,
"I threw away my tools; I chose to do things I had no facility with. The choice not to do something is in a funny way more positive than the choice to do something. If you impose a limit to not do something you've done before, it will push you to where you've never gone before."
4. Both artists work with oil and pastels
Both artists subject matter was that of their surrounding either people or landscape
Both artists use a variety of colours both dark and light to express light.
5. They use different techniques when making their work
Monet creates his observation of the scene whilst Close recreates it then abstracts it
Monet surrounded himself in his work and completed it single handed, whilst Close worked with other artists.
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I feel as though both these artists are exceptionally talented, I enjoy Close’s work because of its realism and how it makes for a a visually stimulating image that provokes discussion, but on the other hand I prefer Monet’s work for the fact that he built his surrounding to paint and dedicated his life to the works, spending nearly everyday painting towards a vision he had in his head
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