Waterloo Bridge, London

From Giverny Monet undertook many journeys to London, which were significant for his work. He had already been to England, during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, and his encounter with the work of Turner had been decisive. No one before Turner had seen the landscape so much modified by atmospheric fluctuations, and so to see it now became Monet’s own purpose.
Between 1900 and 1904 there are done in London series of paintings, like what he had been creating since 1890, of the Houses of Parliament, the Thames and its bridges.
Bridges for Corot and the School of Fontainebleau are still romantic elements of old cities, but in the 70s bridges, including modern ones, become one of the classical themes of the Impressionists, to whom they are significant owing to the play of light around them, on their stone parapets, beneath their shadowy arches, in their reflections on the water and in the atmospheric perspective created by the axes of the bridge. The latter, in particular, is the theme of the painting of Waterloo Bridge, done in 1902, which is quite devoid of local coloring.
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Monet, Claude (1840-1926). French Impressionist painter. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement

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