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fandomhigh2009-07-12 10:41 pm
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Art Appreciation & Protection (Class 2, 7/13)
"Painting is the art of using some form of pigment on canvas, paper, vellum, or parchment to create an image that not only reflects real life, but the artist's interpretation of that life; emotion translated into two dimensions and color, or lack of same. The school of Impressionism focuses on a moment in time, the 'impression' of movement in real life-- light on water, clouds across the sun, unusual visual angles, ordinary subject material captured at one, stolen, focused second." Sophie smiled at the class. "It started as a reaction to the static settings of Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite painting, an effort to move forward into something freer than the politically mandated and approved painting of the Paris juries."
"Claude Monet was a founder of this movement, concentrating on landscapes and nature studies. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, with endless copies of the Masters being done in galleries, he decided to paint what he saw.
"Among Monet’s farthest travels in search of new stimuli was a trip to Venice in 1908. In San Giorgio Maggiore-- also known as Dusk in Venice -- everything is half-glimpsed through a veil of mist, with the sun shining through from behind the church in the center. Like Monet’s notorious Impression Sunrise of 1872, this work might stand as a classic Impressionist statement – except that, by this stage in his career, Monet was not so strict about working entirely on the spot, and very likely he sketched this and his other Venetian subjects on site and completed them at Giverny.
"This painting is now owned by the National Museum and Art Gallery in Cardiff, Wales. It has been valued at over $100 million dollars, as being one of the premier examples of Impressionism in the world."
Sophie hit a button, and the Danger Shop setting changed so that they were in art gallery, with San Giorgio Maggiore hanging on the wall, as well as several other Impressionist paintings. The room contained two entrances, a bench, and nothing else.
"This room is equipped with a temperature sensor which goes off if the temperature near the painting rises by more than three degrees; since the current temperature in the room is seventy degrees, a person's body heat will naturally set it off. At that point, steel doors descend and trap the person attempting to remove the painting in the room until security arrives. There are also cameras, which record your every move."
"Half of you will be thieves, intent on stealing this painting for yourself; half will be police, insurance agents, and security guards, intent on catching the culprit who intends on removing the canvas from the frame." Sophie smiled. "And yes, you may use whatever powers you have. Keep in mind that the value of the painting decreases if it is damaged, hmm? Good luck."
{OCDon the way is up!}
"Claude Monet was a founder of this movement, concentrating on landscapes and nature studies. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, with endless copies of the Masters being done in galleries, he decided to paint what he saw.
"Among Monet’s farthest travels in search of new stimuli was a trip to Venice in 1908. In San Giorgio Maggiore-- also known as Dusk in Venice -- everything is half-glimpsed through a veil of mist, with the sun shining through from behind the church in the center. Like Monet’s notorious Impression Sunrise of 1872, this work might stand as a classic Impressionist statement – except that, by this stage in his career, Monet was not so strict about working entirely on the spot, and very likely he sketched this and his other Venetian subjects on site and completed them at Giverny.
"This painting is now owned by the National Museum and Art Gallery in Cardiff, Wales. It has been valued at over $100 million dollars, as being one of the premier examples of Impressionism in the world."
Sophie hit a button, and the Danger Shop setting changed so that they were in art gallery, with San Giorgio Maggiore hanging on the wall, as well as several other Impressionist paintings. The room contained two entrances, a bench, and nothing else.
"This room is equipped with a temperature sensor which goes off if the temperature near the painting rises by more than three degrees; since the current temperature in the room is seventy degrees, a person's body heat will naturally set it off. At that point, steel doors descend and trap the person attempting to remove the painting in the room until security arrives. There are also cameras, which record your every move."
"Half of you will be thieves, intent on stealing this painting for yourself; half will be police, insurance agents, and security guards, intent on catching the culprit who intends on removing the canvas from the frame." Sophie smiled. "And yes, you may use whatever powers you have. Keep in mind that the value of the painting decreases if it is damaged, hmm? Good luck."
{OCD