Artist Reference

Title: La Japonaise

Artist: Claude Monet

                    This painting is done through the inspiration of Japanese art.

                    It was done during the period when America signed a treaty (Kanagawa) with

                    Japan and their culture soon interested many artists. For Instance

                    Claude Monet. I have decided to use the composition of this painting

                    as my reference as I found it interesting to look at. It has a ' S ' shaped

                    composition that attracts me to have a proper view of the whole picture.

                                                          

                    Although it is written in the artist's biography  that this has no meaning to

                    it, I feel that it is depicting that the artist is trying to show that people tend

                    to deceive others of their true image alot. This is shown by his wife's hairdo.

                    She is supposed to have dark-coloured hair, not blonde but just to model this

                    painting, she has put on a blonde wig. Adding on, she has a fierce looking warrior

                    holding weapons on her Kimono. It is probably to show that some people are seemingly

                    dangerous but of a good nature. This painting is able to show two sides of  "personality

                    deceiving". One of which is a person of a kind nature is hidden under a mask of threat, 

                    while the other is of a person whom has a threatful personality hidden under a mask of

                    harmlessness. The Japanese did of course started the World War II with the Europeans

                    thinking that they did not have as good technology as they did.