Earth from Above, Paul Cezanne's Paintings, and Claude Monet's Paintings

Earth From Above

This is a photo of tank graveyard in Kuwait. I think that he takes this photo because he wants to show that war is nothing but death. The color combination of this picture is great. I think he also takes this picture because of the color combination. Brown tone color usually give warm feeling, but in this case, it gives the feeling death, abandons, and hopeless.

This photo is taken in Ivory Coast. In this photo, everything is white and green. However, there is a worker resting on cotton crops that is very contrast to most things in this photo. The contrast can give benefit for this photo. The first place that I look in this photo is the worker because we always focus on thing that is very different first. In this case, He is black in the white. It is familiar to a black sheep in a group of white sheep. We will look at the black sheep first because it’s different.

Paul Cezanne’s Paintings

This is a painting of Paul Cezanne, French artist. This painting is painted on a canvas by using oil as the medium. If we look closely to this painting, we can see that he has a very rough style. The brush stroke is very impressive. Although, the brush stoke is very rough, the warm green and yellow colors that he uses in this painting make it become smooth, and the brush stroke shows the line of surrounding environment.

This kind of painting cannot look close to it. Otherwise, we can only see the brush stroke. As far as we stand away from this picture, the more clearly we can see. I believe that this is a scenery painting of the mountain, a village, and the forest. I believe that he painted it on the top of another mountain. He uses color differently from the above picture, Forest Interior. This is a cool toned painting. In this painting, the green can refer to abundant and peace of countryside. The most interesting thing in this painting is after we see this painting from the distance; we want to come closer to analyze how he paints and to see his style.

Claude Monet’s Paintings

Monet works are very interesting. This is one of his works that attract my eye. Green color usually refers to calm. If this color is used on people paintings, it can refer to outgoing characteristic. This is very smooth painting, which is completely different from Paul Cezanne’s paintings. I can see the wave on the water. Sometimes, I can feel the movement of the water and lilies. However, I can feel sadness somehow in this painting. I believe that blue gives me that feeling. According to Pablo Picasso, he uses blue to draw a girl painting after his friend committed suicide because of the girl.

This painting is very opposite from what I have learnt. A basic painting theory of creating distance is using darker color in a near area and lighter color in a far area. However, he use lighter colors in the front and darker colors in the back. I believe that he intend to do it so because he wants to lead our eyes to the front first then the back. Further more, because the sun is hidden behind the cloud. The house and environment should be in the shadow.