Kuroda Seiki and Claude Monet: New Methods in Composition.
: Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924) from Japan and Claude Monet (1840 -1926) from France are examples of artists who shared an urge for creative discovery. Both artists painted what are considered to be impressive and revolutionary paintings. In their paintings, they instilled new ways of representing reality through composition. This essay will examine Kuroda Seiki's "Withered Field (Grez)" and Claude Monet's "Waterloo Bridge, Grey Day" in order to show the similarity of their respective methods, a similarity that was radical in its time because it broke with the accepted methods of composition and attempted to reinvent the nature of artist experience and representation.
