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The Argenteuil Bridge Framed Print
Framed with Mat •
18x14 inches
In 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition, Claude Monet painted the Argenteuil Bridge seven times, and the railway bridge which spans the Seine upstream from the village, four times. This shows how attached the artist was to the motif, using the flowing river as a counterpoint for the geometrical mass of the bridge and its piles reflected in the water. |
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The Argenteuil Bridge Framed Print
Framed with Mat •
18x14 inches
In 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition, Claude Monet painted the Argenteuil Bridge seven times, and the railway bridge which spans the Seine upstream from the village, four times. This shows how attached the artist was to the motif, using the flowing river as a counterpoint for the geometrical mass of the bridge and its piles reflected in the water.
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), the founder of Impressionism, is one of the most influential painters in the history of art.Born in Paris, eliminating black and gray from his palette, he represented natural colors like a prism, breaking it down into its individual componentsMonet brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression, ultimately becoming a forerunner of 20th century modernism.