The provincial northern corner of France on the banks of the Seine came to the attention of the impressionist Claude Monet in 1885. Unlike traditional warm summer pictures, this one turned out to be too cold and snowy. According to the tradition of impressionist writing, the canvas does not contain black paint and is replete with lilac shadows where they are supposed to be.
However, the absence of luminaries and the inhospitable heaving of the sky call into question the muffled shade of the hill. Why lilac, why there is no transition from light to shade, why is its top darker than a slope? Perhaps the work was written from memory, and she played a cruel joke? The impression from the presented canvas is sad and sad. There are many overcast shades and deserted. Lonely standing thin trees threw snow caps, which means that the snow is no longer fresh and conceals traces of numerous traces.
Most likely, there are no human footprints among them, and the ripples of cold strokes are a tribute to the solar game of heat and cold. Seine is a port river, but Monet grabbed her life at the moment of a lonely current, silence and complete devastation. It is almost a mirror, with the exception of light ripples on the surface. This trouble Claude Monet ordered separate strokes of small shuttles, strokes of white and all the same lilac.
Piercing frosty paint lies in the background in a pile of snow, in the near – a reflection of the snowy peaks. And everywhere the monotony of the palette. You can not call the river landscape fun. Rather, it is dull and empty. This is the whole author with his mood. His French life is teeming with diversity, mostly joyful and rich. Here is an insatiable hunger in the spring. This silence of scarce colors and details is devastating. Despite the good layout and seemingly large details, an excellent plan, there’s something missing in the work. Perhaps the emphasis on something French, not like any river in any country. Or people, lonely boats or buildings.
Without thinking about the difficult landscape, the author made a bet on the color scheme. With a small amount of flowers he created a snowy landscape. It is realistic, but somewhat contrived. Most likely, the layers overlapped several times, so the work does not seem transparent, like other paintings by Monet.
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