Claude Monet
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The unique style of the Impressionists caught many in the art community off-guard, especially critics who termed the coin ôimpressionismö as a criticism of the paint which looked like the artists fired it onto the canvas with a pistol due to its blurred nature. Impressionist art is typically unintelligible to the sense at close range and forms, and objects only emerge when the eye puts different strokes together at a distance. As Pioch (2004) explains, ôThe impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate reflected light,ö (1). Such a style is illustrated by one of the masters of impressionism, Claude Monet, in Saint-Lazare Station (1877). The impressionism of Claude Monet is without peer. Saint-Lazare Station is typical of many of his works, wherein he uses the impressionistic technique to simulate reflected light. The painting is oil on canvas and measures 21 3/8 x 29 inches in size (Monet 2004). The work was painted in 1877, when Monet was at the height of his powers as an impressionist painter and now hangs in the National Gallery in London. When looking at this scene depicting a bustling train station, the effect on the beholder is one of a visual reality that tires to capture the transient effects of light and shadow. The color scheme is simplistic, with Monet primarily relying
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tion in the billows of smoke dabbed with blended blues and whites and in the base of the painting of what is to represent the ground or floor of the station. Monet often traveled in France and it was via train that he and many others of his generation did so. Such bustling stations with billows of smoke were often the sight of chaos and a cacophony of sounds that are mirrored in this work by the use of impressionist style. Monet was also quite fond of painting outdoors settings in order to gain inspiration from natural sights and natural lighting. In Rouen Cathedral (1894), Monet also uses reflected light or its representation to provide us with a sensory perception that is about as close to natural perception and natural sights can get. Such a technique in Rouen and Saint-Lazare illustrate MonetÆs impressionist technique that attempts to show us the world in tones of light and dark, sensations of color and vague geometric shapes, much as our sense initially perceive images before we fully focus.
Spatially, Saint-Lazare Station exhibits a great degree of depth because of MonetÆs composition. At the base of the painting there is the flat ground stretching into the foreground furthest toward us. From here we begin to see lin
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