The Monet Room
2019
Water Lilies
I visited, studied, sketched, made notes from, and and drew inspiration from photographed works at The Art Institute of Chicago. This research allowed me to create digitally rendered master copies after the works in Gallery 243, also known as The Monet Room. The master copy is a tradition in art in which a student artist creates a copy from a masterpiece in order to analyze and learn from the work. I create master copies in order to train myself to use the custom graphics software I've programmed, in addition to spurring the building of tools especially to meet the challenge of creating analogs to particular techniques.
I've designed my software to leverage algorithms with my own human input. I build paintings layer by layer, making choices regarding color, shape, form, and how the algorithms I've written should interact at any particular time. The result is my ability to communicate in color and pattern in ways I long understood but which are too complex, time consuming, or cost prohibitive for my hand and materials to manifest physically with traditional methods.
“Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) After Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) After Claude Monet”
“Water Lilies after Claude Monet”
Water Lilies
“Haystacks (Thaw) after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Haystacks (Thaw) after Claude Monet”
“Irises after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Irises after Claude Monet”
“Branch of the Seine near Giverny Mist after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Branch of the Seine near Giverny Mist after Claude Monet”
“Poppy Field (Giverny) after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Poppy Field (Giverny) after Claude Monet”
“Houses of Parliament (London) after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Houses of Parliament (London) after Claude Monet”
“Stack of Wheat after Claude Monet”
painting by Matt Kane - “Stack of Wheat after Claude Monet”
