THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: THE IMPRESSIONISTS PT2

 Let's talk about Impressionism…

Shop Girls, c. 1912 by Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones. 🤍

I love the rapid, open brushwork, especially when you can see the things that have no detail but it's just our own eyes who create this, also the effects of light and atmosphere it's so beautiful.

In the Sea, 1883 by Arnold Böcklin. 🧜‍♀️ I interpret themes from Classical mythology in an idiosyncratic, I love the combination of earthy and fantastical realism. Mermaids and tritons frolic in the water with a lusty energy and abandon verging on coarseness. I really hope to see more paintings from this artist because they are haunting.

Pardon in Brittany, 1896 by Gaston La Touche. 🕯️

The canvas, depicting people gathered in a religious ceremony, a pilgrimage of penance, under a blush-colored sky. The lights of candles flicker among their white bonnets, like stars twinkling over a blanket of snow. This piece took my attention because the lights, I feel like if I were the painter I would feel so uncomfortable by not finding sense to the figures, but as a viewer, I can totally understand it.

Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890–91 by Claude Monet ✨

The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat rose fifteen to twenty feet and stood just outside the artist's farmhouse at Giverny. Through 1890 and 1891, he worked on this series both in the field, painting simultaneously at several easels, and in the studio, refining pictorial harmonies during winter time and I love despite being almost the same image, each time because the light of the day, they all look different. watching his painting it's really emotional, there is some kind of halo or glow that seems to go out of the painting. The colors look absolutely amazing, almost like pastel neons.

Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901 🇬🇧

Beginning in September 1899, Claude Monet made almost one hundred paintings of the river Thames in London. These works show only three different views—Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge, both painted from the Savoy Hotel; and the Houses of Parliament, painted from Saint Thomas's Hospital. In the smoggy, industrial city, Monet challenged himself to capture effects of light seen through a dense atmospheric screen.