Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, What was that all about? Cheers Jayanand Montie joked about the guy being one of my pupils, a good one that I really appreciate :-) OTT Monet invented a style of his own as a result of an impediment. IMO he may have been influenced by photography, confirmed by his knowing Nadar - just think of photographic grain and impressionism His style was not acclaimed, far from it, at the beginning at least. He even retropedalled later in his life. This photog shaking his camera might be tomorrow's classic (Cheek in Tongue or vice versa, firmly) Amiti?s Philippe On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:09 PM, <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote: De : "Jayanand Govindaraj " <jayanand at gmail.com> The author thinks that: deliberate camera shake=impressionism Hi Jayanand, I think you're right, I usually tell my pupils to leave the IOS mode on ;-) About Monet, Paris was a small world, he knew Nadar (wiki says so) " In 1872, he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre port landscape. It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Mus?e Marmottan Monet in Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism", which he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists appropriated for themselves.[10] Also in this exhibition was a painting titled Boulevard des Capucines, a painting of the boulevard done from the photographer Nadar's apartment at no. 35." And his vision was affected by cararact - no Monet didn't use the best glass :-( He may even have anticipated the M8 UV/IR fault ... He also apparently owned self taught photoshop talents ;-) "During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers. In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts: the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims. It may also be that after surgery he was able to see certain ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are normally excluded by the lens of the eye, this may have had an effect on the colors he perceived. After his operations, he even repainted some of these paintings, with bluer water lilies than before the operation". Amiti?s Philippe Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Montie Talbert wrote: > This must be one of Philippe's pupils! ;-) > > http://www.blurb.com/books/2312271 > > Montie > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information NO ARCHIVE _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information