For myself, I have never been someone to fully understand art or be able to critique it with a great, detailed analysis. To be honest, I don’t really know what a lot of art is trying to say and the message that the artist is trying to display to the audience, whether it be a drawing, painting, sculpture or photograph. And I guess no audience will really know the real meaning to art but everyone does, however, have their own thoughts and beliefs because of how everyone else perceives and views things around them in life.
For this fine art critique we visited the Art Gallery of Ontario and were told to pick out a piece of fine art that spoke and stood out to us as individuals. For this I had to dig deep and find my inner artist and choose a piece of art that stood out to me.
The piece of art that I have chosen to speak about is a painting called Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro in 1896.
I am not by any means an artist or artistic with paintings nor do I have that much knowledge about art. But I do, however, know what art stands out to me when I’m in a gallery and I know what paintings I like and don’t really like too much.
As I was walking into one of the rooms at the gallery, I stood still, scanned the room and there was the painting that I chose. It was actually the last painting that I saw. There are many aspects of art that come to mind when I saw this painting. I noticed the colours that were used, which to me allowed the painting to give off a soft and calm feeling. Also, the texture of the way in which the artist painted shows brush strokes that do not give off the soft and finished look but are raised and somewhere sloppy. But that somewhat sloppiness perhaps created the strong feelings of calm and relaxation. The colours also stood out and contributed to that relaxed feeling I felt when looking at this painting. There are some light colours and shades that I would think are used to create the texture and softness of the painting. Whereas, other colours such as the darker tones were perhaps used to allow the painting to boldly stand out to its viewer and those colours were used to tell the story of the painting.
When I look at this painting I immediately think of history and events that I have learned in history classes that I have taken in school. I feel like this piece of art has a story or it looks like it could have a story. Many aspects of this painting that lead me to think of historical times are the actual images within the painting, such as the bridge, the factory looking building in the background and the horse carriages transporting people throughout the town. This painting just has a really old fashioned look to it, which I absolutely love because I really do enjoy history and all that it has to tell us!
Even though I do not know for sure what this piece is telling us, I feel that it is a historical piece and most likely has a great story behind it that would astonish the world!
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