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Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville and Édouard Manet, the
“Kearsarge” at Boulogne
Armand Guillaumin was an impressionist and lithographer born in Paris, France in a working family that later moved to Moulins in Bourbonnais where he spent his childhood days. Armand started working at the age of 15 at his uncle’s in the year 1857. Consequently, he attended drawing classes in the evening. He was employed by the Paris-Orleans railway line.
Armand met Cezanne and Pissarro who became great friends with him before joining classes at the Academy Suisse. Armand Guillaumin spent a significant part of days on painting, and since he couldn’t find a living from his picture, he worked as a night employee in the highway department. In the early 1870s, Armand worked closely with Pissaro a village farmer in Pontoise who he shared the love for landscapes, making his style while he constructed pictorial compositions carefully. The perspectives of impressing paints were opened by attitudes of winding paths depicting a specific romanticism.
The “Kearsarge” at Boulogne is an oil-on-canvas impersonal painting made in 1864 by Édouard Manet. The painting vividly depicts the Union Cruiser USS Kearsarge, who emerged the victor of the Battle of Cherbourg over CSS Alabama who was best described as a rebel privateer. The Metropolitan Museum of art pertains to the ownership rights of the art.
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The portrait is nowadays exhibited at Dijon and quite impressive due to its water coloration. Following this, the paper focuses on comparing the two paintings with the line, color, brushwork, texture, spatial illusion and other compositional strategies. A focal point is the point of interest culminated by the art, regarding this, Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville and Édouard Manet, The “Kearsarge” at Boulogne dramatic arts portray a subtle putting into consideration their bold and remarkable appearance. Both artistic impressions have a dappling of bright light, depicting vivid gestures. Both sculptures were created differently by their respective authors thus regardless of the the different ideology of creation and both arts serve a great purpose in engaging the viewers and acting as a culmination of the momentum built at work.
Color is an essential aspect of any drawing since it communicates loads of information that the author intended to pass. A selection of colors creates a different mood whenever one takes a look at the artwork. The atmosphere is selected using warm or cool tones that usually act as a reminder of emotions communicated by the artwork.
Talking of the characteristics of both arts is overwhelming. The Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville comprises of a collection of bright colors. On viewing the art, one brightens up and feels happy. The assortment of warm tones used such as yellow, red, orange, and pink makes the picture bright. In this particular art, the yellow bit is very joyful. The background of this color is as cool as the author balanced the other tones and they did not overwhelm the rest. Consequently, no color overpowers the others and thus on viewing the image; one gets anxious in trying to figure out the message passed by the art (Brettel, Paul & Natalie, p.46).
The cool colors used to create a sensation of the atmosphere and space which is not usually the case with a single swath of coloration, irrespective of how much would try to match it with the skies. Green, blue and purple are the set of cool colors used by the author and have a glance on the portrait, it enables the viewer to have an imagination of a cold world irrespective of how perfectly the portrait gets matched to the skies.
On the other hand, the Édouard Manet, The “Kearsarge” at Boulogne entails a touch of cool colors that captures the element of reality in the artwork as it involves an oceanic background. The series of cool colors such as blue create energy that gets elevated to another level on having the impression of a real sea or ocean set up. The monochromatic type of painting in this particular art is one of a kind. From the look, the artist used a combination of different tint layers, let’s say up to seven and white and blue shades thus making it stand out from other artistic work patched with every color of the rainbow.
Both paintings have the same painting abstract style through the Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville comprises of bright colors while the Édouard Manet, The “Kearsarge” at Boulogne comprises of a selection of cool tones. The tone is an essential factor of consideration in art and refers to the degree of darkness or lightness in any artistic work. The Armand Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville has a touch of bright colors, e.g. yellow, orange, red, and luminous green mainly and this makes the painting look lighter while the other has a selection of fresh colors with the likes of blue, and white and this makes it less light.
Regarding this, a painting job that the artist can combine the dark, middle and light tone colors helps the eye move around the piece comfortably depending on how they get placed.
Tonal range in drawings is determined through desaturation or instead viewing them on black and white, and thus the two pictures have comparably good tone range.
By description, it’s the aspect of any artistic work having to do with space, area, and distances of the image and how it has to differ with the physical model regarding conversion, orientation, measurement, direction, and curvature. Regarding this component, both Armand
Guillaumin, Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville and Édouard Manet, The “Kearsarge” at Boulogne dramatic arts have a degree of spatial illusion since both models differ from the real scenarios.
As discussed in the above sections of this paper, the “Kearsarge” at Boulogne is an oil-on-canvas impersonal painting made by Édouard Manet, where it vividly depicts the Union Cruiser USS Kearsarge, who emerged the victor of the Battle of Cherbourg over CSS Alabama also best described as a rebel privateer. Consequently, the Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Joinville portrays elements of spatial illusion too as it’s a resemblance of the rail bridge.
Any painting does not come into existence at once, and the artist creates one piece at once or a brushstroke at one point in town. The usage of a paintbrush by the artist determines the marks made and what the final part looks like.
Both arts used the traditional paintings regarding the time when the owners of these artists’ work brought them into existence. For sure looking at the two paints, one is unable to determine the type of paintbrush that was used thus brushwork that is generally used even when one barely knows nothing about the paintwork. Both arts have a deep understanding of the brushwork and thus can help an individual how artwork gets brought to the existence and appreciate it more.
This is the perceived quality of any artistic work and only appeals to the sense of touch. For sure one cannot describe the composition of art by just having a look for both artistic works, though it’s usually affected by the type of materials used, brushwork, and color.
Work Cited
- Brettell, Richard R, Paul H. Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Paintings . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. Print. - Gerdts, William H., Nancy Grubb, and Jeanne D’Andrea. American Impressionism . Abbeville
Press, 1984.
