2006-11-16T17:48:00.000-08:00

Sunday I gave a lecture on the Rise and Fall of Impressionism where I considered the impact on Monet of his verb preferences......Others like John House have written on the subject in his book on Monet. Most curious is Monet's use of the verb sentir( to sense or feel) as opposed to "see" voir, "look at" regarder, or" look for", chercher....If a painter shifts their own verb choice to what do I sense or feel is before me from, what do I see before me they will inevitably gain a simpler, more distilled idea of what they intend to paint.....Use of the verb "to see" can cause the problem of listing a picture's contents, of taking instructions from a setting, scene or photograph as opposed to experiencing or sensing what is present and, letting your sensory response govern the direction of the painting. Beginning artists frequently begin paintings by enumerating contents as they appear to their foveal vision, like reading words individually on a page. They see a compilation of nouns. That is not experiencing vision; it is reading. A sensory experience guided painter looks at the whole page, and through peripheral vision(which is more than 95% of your visual field) lets the cumulative sense of the unified visual experience come to them...

David Dunlop Art Talk

2006-11-16T08:08:00.000-08:00

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