Chen 1
Wenliang Chen (Mike)
Professor O’Toole
Capstone
September 20, 2013
The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning On Capstone class, I had a chance to go to the Museum of Fine Arts. “The MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world, the collection in the MFA encompasses nearly 450000 works of art.” (About the MFA) A lot of professional artworks in the museum brought a great visual feast to me, but the one that most attracted my attention is a painting, called "The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning." (Pissarro) Pissarro “understand and appreciate the importance of expressing on canvas the beauties of nature without adulteration.”(John) After a year in Paris, “he therefore began to leave the city and paint scenes in the countryside to capture the daily reality of village life. He found the French countryside to be ‘picturesque’ and worthy of being painted. It was still mostly agricultural and sometimes called the ‘golden age’ of the peasantry.”(Art Gallery of New South Wales) Pissarro explained the technique of painting outdoors to his student: “Work at the same time upon sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on and equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”(John)

Chen 2 The picture that I want to depict belongs to Pissarro’s early series, begun in 1901. In the foreground, there are some boats in the stream, while the Louvre's southern flank, at right side, glows in the winter morning sun. Not far away, stands a row of buildings, these buildings’ style seem to be very traditional and building probable have a long history. This setting created a peaceful feeling. Meanwhile, because of the boat discharged smog it is lead to a very gray sky, and only had a few trees stand near the shore, the whole scene gathered together makes me feel like a sadness and depression. To sum up, Pissarro is one of the most outstanding impressionistic artists in the history of western art, and his achievement about art creation still has influenced contemporary art style. Meanwhile, I am very appreciated my professor give me a chance to go to MFA museum, through this field trip, I obtained lots of artistic knowledge and really widen my scope of vision.

Chen 3 Works Cited
About the MFA. “Artworks in the MFA,” n.d. Web. 20 Sep. 2013.
John, Rewald. Camille Pissarro, Harry N. Abrams. 1989. Print.

John. Rewald, The History of Impressionism. 1990. Print.

Pissarro, Camille. The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning. 1900. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.