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At different times of the day
Something so simple. Getting present to the changes in the light. I wonder… Maybe before all our smart devices, the Internet, TV; before all of that, at the end of the 19th century people still weren’t present to the changes. We just think now that “oh back in the day”. But really, back in the day they had their new distractions already distracting them.
So much so, that an artist could disrupt the world of art by painting the light. Not the shadows. And the changes of the light in a city. In something that thousands of people walk past throughout the day.
We like to believe that we’re distracted by our devices and the news cycle and whatever other excuse we have. But maybe, maybe we’re distracted because we’re human. And that’s never changed.
Leave it to the artists to show us how distracted we are and point things out.
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Il commence alors à faire des séries de peintures. Il peint le même sujet à différents moments de la journée, pour montrer les différences de lumière.
Par exemple, il peint plusieurs fois la cathédrale de Rouen, à différents moments de la journée.
He then began to make series of paintings. He paints the same subject at different times of the day, to show the differences in light.
For example, he painted Rouen Cathedral several times, at different times of the day.
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