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Assessment 2: Art Criticism. By: Chibuzor Eduzor. Woman with a Parasol. Artist: Claude Monet Medium: Oil on Canvas Whereabouts: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Description.
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Assessment 2: Art Criticism By: Chibuzor Eduzor
Woman with a Parasol Artist: Claude Monet Medium: Oil on Canvas Whereabouts: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Description The artwork title describes the subject of the painting. The subject is a woman walking in a field holding a parasol to protect herself from the sun. In this painting Claude Monet uses gentle brushstrokes to design the waving grass, beautiful sky and the woman’s flowing skirt. The colors are mostly bright and cheerful, but the colors at the top give it a foreboding, somber look. The clouds in the sky have a soft downy look due to the light brushstrokes. Woman with a Parasol was painted on canvas using oil paint. Claude Monet’s light strokes gave the painting a light cheerful mood.
Analysis Woman with a Parasol does create a weight or special balance to the image. The woman, boy and grass is arranged, so that it seems as if you are looking from the bottom of a hill. The painting shows movement through the waving grass and billowing skirt that wave in the breeze. Proportion is shown perfectly by the boy in the background gives the painting a three dimensional look that move the views eye around the painting.
Interpretation Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol, makes me think that he had a wife and son. The light brushstrokes give the painting, and people in it, a graceful look. I think Monet was trying to share the beauty of his wife, who might have been dead at the time, through a painting. He also shows a boy in the background looking at the woman. I believe this was one of his two sons, the second who was born right before she died.
Judgment Earlier this year my Language Arts teacher used this painting as an example of mood. I really loved the painting and thought it should be the base of my assessment. Woman with a Parasolis a success because it reminds you of the graceful beautiful person in your own life, be it your mother, sister, or wife. Pierre-Auguste Renoir used a similar style in his artwork. Comparing them illustrates the impressionism both of them used. I think Monet should have used brighter colors towards the top of the top of the painting.
