Monet Waves Breaking
... approach. " He looked out from the tops of cliffs towards the sea, using the information derived from his unusual viewpoint as he had done earlier" (Isaacson 23). For Monet, nature not only became his reference point but also his ally or foe. Waves Breaking created in 1881 is a wonderful example of the paintings he created while on the Normandy coast. Monet was sensitive to time, place, seasons, sounds of earth, and metaphysical qualities of nature. In Waves Breaking you develop a sense of warmth through his color and sense of light. As a viewer you are drawn into the painting, hearing the waves breaking in the sea, and feeling as if you are drifting along, slowly being warmed by the sun. " In the 1880's Monet began to develop juxtapositions of close-up and more distant veiws and he tried alterations in vantage-point, slightly to the right or left"(Isaacson 24). Through the close up of the sea we gain the vantage point of either being on the sea itself or being on a cliff above the sea. Monet during this period of painting made the foreground and background lock into a single plane, containing the expanse of the sea in its parenthetical embrace. Through Waves Breaking we see Monet's color extend toward pastel modulation, with wonderful blues, greens, and pinks to display lighting and movement. Monet...