He had painted life, not as it was or as it was supposed to be. Those were fishing boats and labourers, one random morning. Nor had he intended to paint a dream no sea gods or allegories, no grand battle ships. The artist agreed Claude Monet had not intended to paint reality. Nothing would be clear, the detail lost in atmospheric haze, the colours and shapes blurred by the light, itself fleeting, transitory. There, on the wall, in a frame, was a feeling, the sensation one would have, standing at the harbour, looking onto the water, watching the sun rise on that day. This is not a landscape …” Jules-Antoine Castagnary, “L’exposition du boulevard des Capucines- Les impressionnistes,” Le Siècle 1874 The canvas surface is textured you can see the tiny ridges where the artist lifted his brush. There is no linear perspective, no true foreground, middle or background. ‘The small floating boats and figures are suggested rather than carefully detailed. A sunrise painted two years before in the Havre harbour.Įxcept there was no sunrise on the canvas, but a fuzzy combination of blue, gold, and crimson.
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