Golden sunshine and vivid ocean: those two things can always make people want to get themselves into the magnificent landscape of the painting L'Ally Point, Low Tide It was made by one of the greatest art masters Claude Monet. Monet was an Impressionist painter, and he has a very distinct individual feature. His special control over colour, strokes,and light were also shown well in this painting.The warm colour tones and vivid representation of characters and landscape in the painting L'Ally Point, Low Tide make viewers appreciate the intense beauty of nature.
In L'Ally Point, Low Tide Monet used yellow, purple, and blue as three main colours. The lines with blue and yellow lie together to describe the feeling of waves. Blue represents water, and yellow with a little bit white are the last minute rays of sunshine of that day. If you observe carefully you would find out that none of the objects in this painting is made up of the single colour; for instance the ocean might be blue when you first look at it, but actually it is composed by purple, sapphire, white, lilac, and so on. It is amazing to feel an art work this way. It is because distinguishing the composition of colours of the objects makes me feel like I can observe them through the artist's eyes, and rehearse the process of mixing the colours to a wonderful picture in my brain. At the left of painting the brown shadows of mountain are reflected upon the ocean. Those shadows are not as clear as the shadows on the peaceful lake; they are separated, hazy, and mingled together with the golden shining light, and that makes me feel like I am standing right in the picture when a warm zephyr is blowing through the low tide of L'Ally Point and taking the sunshine away. In short, colour is one of the most important thingS in this painting,and the way Monet used those different colours does make the original landscape even more beautiful and magnificent.
Thousands of little strokes combine together to create a fabulous picture— This is exactly what Monet did most of time. Looking down from the sea level, the sparkling ocean is composed by hundreds layers of little horizontal lines, and all of them have different colour and shape. Furthermore, they also give people a nearly realistic image of light dancing above the water. Near the sea level, the water starts to be more obscure than the foreground which makes the ocean wide and boundless. However, Monet chooses to use the more smooth strokes to paint sky in order to create the feeling of limitlessness. The clouds are floating, breathing, and moving slowly every minute, and they occupy the whole sky above the ocean which makes the viewers feel greatness of the nature.
Although the warm colour makes the whole painting very harmonious, the contrast between blue and gold still catches people's eyes by establishing an extremely subtle relationship between light and sky, and shadow and water; they are separated apart, but also keep balance among each other. In the foreground a few people are playing in the water; two of them stand a little bit further, and others may have a water fight. People are only small part of this painting, but they do make the whole picture more energetic by showing their different and freewheeling gestures. Moreover, those people are almost as same as some little ants compare to the great landscape, and the comparison between them also adds a kind of magnificent atmosphere into the painting while shows the tininess of human beings. Standing in front of a scene like that, Monet did mix the emotion of freedom and spectacularity into the painting.
L'Ally Point, Low Tide is an amazing masterpiece. It may make people exclaim in great surprise at the first time. However, only after you staring at it and feeling the every stroke, every kind of colour, and even every little arrangement in the conner that created by Monet; you can finally touch the real beauty and glamour behind this art work.
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