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Artwork of the Week: En Bateau (The Boat Ride)

En Bateau (The Boat Ride)
Claude Monet (1840-1926), 'En Bateau (The Boat Ride),' 19<sup>th</sup> c., graphite, 9 3/16 x 12 5/16 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchase/gift of Mahonri M. Young Estate, 1959.

Nearly a century since his passing, we celebrate the birthday of Claude Monet, born November 14th,1840. Monet was a French painter known for his leadership in the Impressionist movement. Beginning in the 1860s, this group of artists were interested in painting outdoors, or en plein air, in order to capture natural light, color, and atmosphere. The Impressionists loved scenes of leisure in daily life, rendering the beauty of a fleeting moment with loose brushwork, almost appearing unfinished.

This study for Monet’s Le Barque bleue (1887) outlines two female figures. A vertical line emphasized by several pencil marks cuts the rowboat in half, likely separating the women from the rower of the boat. This odd, but intentional, crop and strong diagonal were characteristic of Impressionist works, influenced by Japanese woodcuts as they were popularized in Europe.

Guest author: Curatorial fellow Katy Turner

Past Artworks of the Week

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Artwork of the Week: Les Rameaux (Christ Entering Jerusalem)

April 29, 2024
Yesterday marked the Orthodox Christian celebration of Palm Sunday, the day in which Christ the Savior entered Jerusalem for the last time before His crucifixion.
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Artwork of the Week: Louis Comfort Tiffany

April 22, 2024
This informal portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany, President of Tiffany Studios and the son of the founder of Tiffany & Co., reflects both the artist’s skill at depicting light, and the attitudes of the wealthy in early twentieth-century America.
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Artwork of the Week: Right to the Jaw

April 15, 2024
Mahonri Mackintosh Young, the grandson of President Brigham Young, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1877. Throughout his career, he created more than 320 sculptures
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