Reverse Ekphrase

"Waterlilies and Japanese bridge" by Claude Monet, 1840-1926





I am a terrible artist so please bare with me.


Who Am I? I am painted by a French artist. I am from the impressionism period. I am painted at the last year of the seventeenth century. I am given a theme of art and nature. I am painted using oil paints on a canvas. I am 81.28 X 101.6 centimeters big. I am a Japanese landscape of a reflecting pond. My reflection is very important. Overtop of my pond, is a big gray-blue arch bridge that stretches throughout the painting. My bridge is symmetrical. My bridge has four beams and two rails. The beams and rails correspond in the back. I am a painted to look realistic. I am given a lot of shades right under my bridge. Behind my bridge, the pond water has a vanishing point and the monochromatic green grass begins.The grass is the ground of the painting. The grass is in small bunches and also covers both ends of the bridge. There are some small dandelions growing within the grasses at the right end of the bridge. My pond is in front of the painting and is also underneath the bridge. Freely floating on my pond in a smooth and wavy direction, there are a lot of tint green lily pads with pink and yellow flowers on every other lily pad. I am given equal emphasis to the details and landscape. I am very appealing. I caught Lisa’s eyes right away! Who am I?
By Lisa Nguyen



2 comments:

Lisa Nguyen said...

Fawn!

You did a great job! Was my ekphrases that easy for you to find the artwork before I even got to post it up?

Oh well!

Great job again!

-Lisa

Anne Brew said...

Dear Ladies,

The problem was that the person writing the Ekphrsis selected a picture that is more famous than bread. Everyone knows it - even if they don't know it. It has been published on calendars, posters, newspapers, comic strips, everywhere.

The idea behind the Ekphrasis was to select a more obscure work that not many know about. The instructions in Black Board point this out.

To coin a phrase "Oh, well..."

brew