Vienna’s Albertina Museum: A Treasury of Modernist Art
<p>This is a famous work from the Impressionist movement by its founding father, the French artist Claude Monet. The artist moved to Vétheuil in 1878 with his family and painted several canvases of the small farming village on the river Seine between Rouen and Paris. Some of these works were also painted from the artist’s floating studio in a houseboat.</p>
<p>This painting is of a summer’s day in Vétheuil reflected in its bright hues of yellow and green. The view of the blue sky highlighted with yellow strokes captures the bright sunlight — a classic example of Monet’s manipulation of light through color and brushwork. The artist emphasized on presenting distance through a careful use of color in this work, with warm shades of the foreground against cooler, muted hues in the backdrop and the sky.</p>
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