I
felt that this piece was carefully crafted and beautiful from both up close and
far away. From a distance it looked like a beautiful scene of a bunch of sail
boats in a blue ocean, jagged rocks and a green hill. When you observe the
painting from up close you realize just how impressive the painting is. The
style used in the painting is pointillism which is a technique of using small
dots of color in patterns to form an image. Rysselberghe used an entire
collection of colors to create the image. He incorporates blues, greens, pinks
and purples into the ocean using the pointillistic style. In the hill there are
greens, yellows and oranges. It is amazing that he was able to incorporate all
these colors in his painting and style make it look beautiful. Rysselberghe’s
attention to detail in The Regatta has opened my eyes to have difficult
pointillism is. I would highly recommend stopping by the Museum of Fine Arts
and you have to go to Gallery 255 to see The Regatta and many other great
works.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Attention to Detail Pays Off by James Finneral
Thursday
the crew took a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The
museum contains various types of art such as American, European, Ancient and
Contemporary. In Gallery 255 there are many landscape paintings mostly by
Claude Monet, but one piece that really caught my attention was The Regatta by
Theodore van Rysselberghe. It is oil painting on canvas that Rysselberghe made
when he was on a Mediteranian cruise with Paul Signac. A regatta is a sporting
eventing consisting of boats or yachts so Rysselberghe must have observed the
regatta from up on a hill. The painting overlooks to ocean with many jagged
rocks on the coast line. Above the jagged rocks is a nice slope with
green/yellow looking grass. There are ripples in the painting where the waves
are in the ocean and the horizon is set very high up on the canvas.
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