Header pictures are excerpts from paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926). Monet made brilliant discoveries about how the human eye sees with cells that capture individual dots of light. The interpretation of those dots into lines, shape, and form, happens in the brain and mind, not in the eye. By discarding traditional painting approaches that used heavy outlines and flat colors, Monet was able to capture points of color just the way the eye sees them.
This new innovation in technique made it possible to capture accurate impressions of smoke, haze, water reflections, light and shade in greenery, and many other visual phenomena that were impossible to convey with standard painting.
The term “impressionist” was used for critical derision of Monet’s “impression” of light, but it later because a badge of honor for pioneering use of visual technology in an unprecedented way. Therefore, PixelThinker is happy to honor Monet’s work and to aspire to be as creative with our modern-day technology of online communications… ultimately expressed as our thoughts, conveyed through pixels.
Photos are from Wikimedia Commons, a repository for public domain media.
Male house sparrow in hand photo by user Richard001, biology student in New Zealand.
Wall scaling photo by the U.S. Navy, showing training at Fleet Marine Training in Pearl Harbor.
Dog training photo by the U.S. Navy, showing training at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece.
Full attributions for all photos will be posted by August 21, 2010.