Claude Monet's palette changed considerably as he developed his ideas about color and in this video we join him near the start of that journey in 1870, painting en plein air at the beach at Trouville.
Join me as I delve into this delightful and deceptively subtle painting. We will see how at this point he was still basically using an Old Master palette - yellow ocher, red ocher, black, white with ultramarine blue - but was able to create an image of a fresh outside world.
Working quickly and (of course!) impressionistically, form was not that important to him in this work but color most definitely was. Gestured brushwork, layered paint. subtle colors and powerful contrast combine to give a wonderful sense of light and space. Like Van Gogh, Monet would have known about simultaneous contrast, and here we will see how he builds from a base of neutral grays.
In future videos we will explore how he stopped using earth colors and moved to pure hues, but for now let's enjoy learning from this Great Artist at this stage of his career.
If you follow the link below to the National Gallery website, you can download a low resolution, but perfectly acceptable, image of the original for free: The Beach at Trouville, 1870: www.nationalga...
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