A Compare/Contrast of Monet’s Grainstack(Sunset) and van Gogh’s The Sower

In this essay I leave behind compare and contrast two paintings. The first is Grainstack (Sunset), painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second is The Sower, which was painted by Vincent train Gogh in 1888. both(prenominal) paintings were painted around the uniform time and are very like in style and face, only when their differences lucubrate the change that was happening from the impressionist to the Post-Impressionist movement.Just beginning with the obvious, both Monet and new wave Gogh used the same medium, oil on canvas. Both Grainstack and The Sower were paintings of the outdoors around sunset, focusing on the demeanor that the setting sun played with the colour of the environment. They are naturalistic artworks, portraying natural objects in recognizable form, although Monets Grainstack is more naturalistic than van Goghs Sower. When Monet painted Grainstack, he was experimenting with perceptual color.The melodic theme of the Impressionist movement was to objecti vely record nature as it was seen by the painter, focusing on the effects of color and light. He painted Grainstack the way he saw it not the echt color that we know it was, but the colors that the sunset made it appear. Van Gogh, at the beginning of the Post-Impressionist movement, was not merely trying to paint what he saw, but wanted to take perception in the colors and lines.He was initi totallyy drawn to the subject matter by the contrasting colors of the sky and the field, how the contrast of the regal shadows on the field and the yellow sun in the sky close to irritated the eye. Where Monet painted what he saw, van Gogh changed and softened the render so as to portray the emotion in the contrasting colors while still making the painting pleasing to the eye. This became a recurring theme for van Gogh, as can be seen in The iniquity Cafe, which he painted very soon after The Sower.In both Grainstack and The Sower, the artists use a technique very similar to pointillism. They paint with macroscopical brushstrokes, using colors that blend together to create the images that the artists wish us to see. However, where Monet uses smaller, thinner strokes to create a more streamlined image van Gogh is more loose and free with his brush strokes, conveying emotion in the broad, expressive lines. This is another example of the transition from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism.The way that Monet and van Gogh approached these two paintings are slightly different. The focal point of Grainstack is the actual haystack. Its lines lead you toward the center of the page, but the main focus is the haystack, sitting take away to the side. This gives it a slightly unbalanced feel. In The Sower, van Gogh achieves an round-shouldered balance by countering the visual weight of the farmer on the right, with the path, the birds and the house, all leading the eye to the left and back into the contrasting colors of the environment. plot of ground these two paintings may not seem very different at first glance, once you delve into them a little deeper, their differences almost surmount their similarities. Painted right on the cusp of the transition from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism, these two paintings illustrate the slowly changing style of the period. Their color, line, and subject matter make Grainstack and The Sower immaculate examples of the embodiment of their respective movements, and the subtle changes in style that were occurring.ReferencesDoyle, Marc artistry Movements Timeline The Art Industri Group Van der Wolk, J. Vincent Van Gogh Paintings and Drawings 1990