The Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries Van Gogh, Flowering Orchard (56.13), Annenberg Van Gogh Gallery Monet, the Four Trees (29.100.110), Annenberg Monet Gallery Visual perception is a function of our eyes and brain. We see images as a whole rather then in parts. However, images can be broken into their visual elements: line, shape, texture, and color. These elements are to images as grammars are to languages. They, together, allow our eyes to see images …showed first 75 words of 611 total…

…showed last 75 words of 611 total…built up with paint layers. Brush or palette knife marks are clearly evident. The intentions of making light fall across the painting as a decorative and expressive purposes. Monet’s painting is more than a set of brush strokes randomly placed on the surface of objects. Brushstrokes do not follow texture gradient they direct the eyes. As we can see In “The Four Trees” which captures the early morning light enlarging our perception of reality. .