...11/2/12 UNHP Port of Dieppe, Evening by Claude Monet I have chosen to write my paper on Claude Monet’s painting “Port of Dieppe”. This painting is in the Dixon Art Gallery and Gardens and part of their Ritchie Collection. After researching a little, I found that Claude Monet was a French painter that lived between the times of 1840 to 1926. He was a founder of the French Impressionist Paintings. He had a number of paintings throughout his life, but to me his painting “Port of Dieppe” sticks out more than any other painting I have seen in the art galleries. This painting was completed in Eighteen Eighty-Two, and is an impressionist style of painting. You can see this with the many short strokes Monet has used to make up this entire painting of a seaport with the skyline above a city and boats throughout the water. This painting somewhat can remind one of the painting “Starry Night” from Vincent Van Gogh. I say this, because of the style of painting that it is. All of the small strokes and blurry features of everything in the painting give it a weird look. It is not a detailed picture of exactly everything that he can see, but at the same time there is a lot of detail in every stroke that he has used to make up this entire painting. This is something that attracts me to this painting. The colors in this painting are very vibrant too. From the title and as you can tell in the painting, it is late in the day as the sun is going down. The sky is made up of many different colors...
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