Regatta At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Art has the ability to tell a story, to connect with the pictures, and to allow people to express their imagination. Once a person looks at an artwork whether it is a drawing, sculpture, or pottery the viewer is taken to the artist’s world. This paper will discuss the description, analysis, and interpretation of a painting called Regatta at Saint-Adresse painted by the French painter Claude Monet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Monet designed this painting in 1867 and applied oil painting on canvas. The size of the painting is twenty-nine and five-eighths inches by forty inches. The setting of the artwork takes place on the Le-Havre beach where people watch the regatta on the ocean in Saint-Adresse. Regatta means a sequence of boat races in which sailors row or sail their boats. Saint-Adresse is a city located in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. Monet has painted this picture during the Impressionist period that took place from 1870-1890 where it
He paints the hills in dark green also he mixes green with the blue ocean. The people in the painting look as though they are middle-class because the men wear suits and hats while the ladies wear long dresses and hold their umbrellas. The man standing and wearing a gray suit with a beige hat is Monet’s father. The booth on the beach towards the city could be the ticket stand and the people gathered there are buying tickets to watch the race. The triangles of the sails along with the curvy lines of the clouds and ocean reappear throughout the painting. There is a boat on the coast that is preparing to set out into the ocean. Not much of the sky is shown since the clouds are covering the sky. While observing the picture we focus more on the beach rather than the buildings in Saint-Adresse since the buildings are not as big as the sailboats in the ocean. To conclude, these were the colors, shapes, and activities shown in this