东方灵画 - 莫奈：“我出的都是选择题”

I drew these piles of haystacks 34 times

Monet painted 34 haystacks. From different angles, different compositions, different angles, different seasons, and different environments, the same pile of hay has many different feelings.

What Monet painted may not be haystacks, but may be "choices", "choices" used to associate, and there are more than 34 "choices", but there are many "choices" in each painting!

Monet's "Hastacks" Series

reality and imagination

The more real paintings are restored, the less room for imagination there is. If a basketball photo is placed in front of you, everyone can only say that it is a basketball. If a circle is drawn, then it can represent basketball, the moon, tires, coins, oranges... .

But if you only draw a circle, it is too uncertain and confusing, just like doing a test. Compared with fill-in-the-blank questions (realistic paintings) and subjective questions (abstract paintings), many people like "multiple-choice questions" ” (works that fall somewhere between “realistic” and “overly abstract”).

It can only be basketball

Whichever ball you want it to be?

The human brain likes to imagine, but it doesn’t want to expend too much energy."Dopamine is at your fingertips but not free."Maybe just right. So Monet gives you a lot of "choices", more than 34 "choices", and the "blur" of each painting gives you "A certain range of independent choices”, this kind of imagination that is not beyond your imagination, but does not require any effort, is just right.

It can be a haystack under the setting sun, or a haystack in dusty weather (the sandstorms in the 1990s would cause an orange-red weather phenomenon)

It can be a haystack after snow or a haystack after freezing rain.

It can be a haystack dotted with green in early spring, or a haystack set off by the residual green of early autumn.

The tenderness of saturation

If the color saturation is too high, it’s like a true or false question. You don’t have much “leeway”. If you add a little gray and reduce the saturation, it becomes a multiple-choice question, making people feel less “oppressed” and softer. The feeling is like stroking a stuffed toy rather than a steel ball.

Monet's use of color saturation makes people feel that there is light everywhere, but it is not dazzling."a blur of impression", the audience can see more and think more when they open their eyes.

It is comfortable to be soft and not dazzling

It feels warm rather than hot

So Monet asked a lot of multiple choice questions,He doesn't ask you "What should I do?", nor does he ask you "Is it right?", but asks you "Which one of these do you think is suitable?", as for which one you think is suitable, whichever one you think is suitable is suitable.