Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
The Magpie between 1868 and 1869. Oilon canvas H. 89,0 ; L. 130,0 cm. Acquired by the national museums for the Musée d'Orsay, 1984
In the late 1860s, Monet began to extend the need to capture sensation, to render "the effect", to all the transient, even fleeting, states of...
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Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
The Magpie between 1868 and 1869. Oilon canvas H. 89,0 ; L. 130,0 cm. Acquired by the national museums for the Musée d'Orsay, 1984
In the late 1860s, Monet began to extend the need to capture sensation, to render "the effect", to all the transient, even fleeting, states of nature. Taking Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley with him, Monet took up the great challenge of the snowy landscape, which Courbet had recently revisited with great success. Calming the lyricism of the latter, Monet prefers to the world of the forest and the hunt, the frail note of a magpie placed on a gate as if on a musical staff.
Sun and shadow build up the painting and translate the elusive solid and liquid matter.
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