Charing Cross Bridge, Monet
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| Author: | Claude Monet |
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| Original Title: | Charing Cross Bridge |
| Type: | Cuadro |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1899 |
| Located: | Thyssen Museum, Madrid. |
Monet, Light and Fog
No one like Monet devoted so much talent to capturing the effect of light in fog. At first glance the painting may seem bland, yet when observed closely it reveals an unusual chromatic richness, hidden by the lack of contrast.
Elements of the Painting
The work depicts a winter morning with little movement in a normally bustling scene. It is one of the few paintings by Monet in which we can still see the original landscape with few changes. In a visit to London, the bridge and the Gothic silhouettes on the right are clearly identifiable.
Charing Cross Bridge is currently on display at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.
This version of the painting "Charing Cross Bridge" was painted by Claude Monet in 1899. The work is part of a series of paintings with different views of the River Thames in London. A year later he painted the same landscape again, though with a simpler composition and fewer nuances.
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ARTIST DATA
Claude Monet
| Full Name: | Oscar-Claude Monet. |
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| Birth: | 1840, Paris, France. |
| Death: | 1926, Giverny, France. |
| Style: | Impressionism. |
A leader of the Impressionist art movement, Monet’s paintings are recognized as the purest examples of this style. His importance is reflected in the price achieved by his oil painting "Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas," sold in London in 2008 for 40.9 million pounds sterling.
Monet laid the foundations of modern painting. His brush did not aim to tell a story or provide a moral lesson to the viewer, but rather placed impressions on the canvas based on sensations experienced by the eye. The pointillist brushstrokes, which he painted with the mastery of a true artist, are the origin of modern pictorial art.
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