Summary: Hoboken Water Front
From the origins of the human species, the man (the woman also) has always tried to create beauty, to do something that differentiated them from the rest and that attracted attention. Already in prehistory, cave paintings were a clear example and a demonstration that man tries to instinctively create beauty, and, in part, that is one of the qualities that differentiates us from animals. Throughout history, this quality has characterized the human species, who have left us millions of representations of what we nowadays call art. Last week I went to visit the Norton Museum, it was a great experience for me, the staff was friendly and always ready to help and give me explanations and information about what seemed to be incomprehensible to me.
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This painting is made of oil on canvas medium. This is a wonderful oil on canvas painting. The Color used by the artist is to convey emotion or to represent reality. There is a lot of contrast. It reinforces the feeling that things do not seem as they should. Everything seems calm and peaceful, but the contrast suggests something else. Ernest Lawson's Hoboken Waterfront is a vigorous and brawny late-career work. One of the original members of The Eight, a group of American painters who furthered the advance of modernism, Lawson was drawn to scenes of urban life, which he painted in a rich palette with a thick application of paint and bold strokes of his brush. In this painting, he nimbly manipulates our sense of scale in a layered, tumultuous jumble of buildings, ships, and turbulent waters that conveys the dizzying pace of modern life in the metropolis. In Lawson’s work, brightness is what we see. I think the artist wanted to focus the interest on the environment because any human being has been shown in the painting. The work is chosen to illustrate a period, a movement, to provoke a reflection on a certain vision of the world or society. I think the image reproduces a natural disaster. You can see a turbulent sea, as if an industrial zone is flooded by water due to negligence of people who do not protect the environment. It is interesting to note that the blue sky that is almost covered by the clouds and smoke of the industries. The Environment is what surrounds us. Term that already shows the egocentric position of Man. Man puts himself in the center and does not consider himself part of Nature. There is no direct visible effect of the impact of our pollution on the environment, we do not directly see the consequences of our behavior on the environment, although we are often told through information and prevention. That does
This painting is made of oil on canvas medium. This is a wonderful oil on canvas painting. The Color used by the artist is to convey emotion or to represent reality. There is a lot of contrast. It reinforces the feeling that things do not seem as they should. Everything seems calm and peaceful, but the contrast suggests something else. Ernest Lawson's Hoboken Waterfront is a vigorous and brawny late-career work. One of the original members of The Eight, a group of American painters who furthered the advance of modernism, Lawson was drawn to scenes of urban life, which he painted in a rich palette with a thick application of paint and bold strokes of his brush. In this painting, he nimbly manipulates our sense of scale in a layered, tumultuous jumble of buildings, ships, and turbulent waters that conveys the dizzying pace of modern life in the metropolis. In Lawson’s work, brightness is what we see. I think the artist wanted to focus the interest on the environment because any human being has been shown in the painting. The work is chosen to illustrate a period, a movement, to provoke a reflection on a certain vision of the world or society. I think the image reproduces a natural disaster. You can see a turbulent sea, as if an industrial zone is flooded by water due to negligence of people who do not protect the environment. It is interesting to note that the blue sky that is almost covered by the clouds and smoke of the industries. The Environment is what surrounds us. Term that already shows the egocentric position of Man. Man puts himself in the center and does not consider himself part of Nature. There is no direct visible effect of the impact of our pollution on the environment, we do not directly see the consequences of our behavior on the environment, although we are often told through information and prevention. That does