The river landscape by Oscar Claude Monet narrates the surroundings near the river Seine. This Petite-Geneville, is a small town six kilometers from Paris, secluded, with a calm flow of its provincial life. In Monet’s work, the silence and originality of the modest French corner is for certain in proportions, colors, mood.
Paying tribute to a different trend than Baroque or Romanticism, the author sought precisely such authenticity and nature that he saw himself. The nature of the water, the rickety buildings and the gray sky are written sadly, severely, wetly. As if the flowing waves of the Seine itself blurred the mood of the canvas, leaving the viewer in the mood of real boredom and abandonment of the edge. In the work of Claude Monet many strokes. They are different – wide, winding, smooth, chaotic. The nature of their imposition sets the direction of the flow of water and ripples on its mirror grayness, while at the same time flattening the smooth walls of sheds, brick houses, boards. In the work there are swirls round brush – this is the gray smoke of the steamboat pipe.
The layout of numerous boats and boats, houses and houses is successful in combination with a wet shore and a blue horizon. Despite the many small details, homogeneous in structure and color, Monet manages to distinguish between their crowding. With all this in the hands of the artist there are only shades of the spectrum without the admixture of coal soot. In his work there is no black contour, and the shadows have a mixed dark density of a multi-colored palette. At the same time, the very combination of monochrome paint of the Seine and marshy grass is very successful. In the work there are few screaming spots, except that vanilla boards in the pile of the landfill stand out with a bright spot, and a strip of horizon.
The mood of the river landscape is very controversial. It is impossible to determine whether the day, the fan, the morning, or Oscar portrayed Claude Monet. The sky is too blue, low and drizzling, which is characteristic both for the summer weather and for the autumn. A calm on the shore indicates the desolation of the edge. Only a small boat breaks the silence of the story and the still landscape. This is pure work with frank paints, bold strokes, a new mood of impressionism. Claude Monet wrote the sad but expressive and real reality of returning to France after living in England.
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