1881, Claude Monet, View of Vétheuil -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Monet is considered the founder proper of Impressionism: with his painting Impression -- Soleil levant, he provoked the movement's name. Painting en plein air -- the spontaneous rendering of a momentary perception of nature as a phenomenon of light and colour -- became his primary goal, which he ceaselessly pursued throughout his life. Between 1878 and 1882, Monet lived in Véthevil, a village on the Seine. In this view, he has captured the atmosphere of a hot summer day and the air glistening in the sunlight with brilliant colours and nervous brushstrokes. He was mainly interested in how the intensity of the colours changed from nearness to distance, using vigorous yellows and greens for the foreground and delicate pastel hues for the sky.
1881, Claude Monet, View of Vétheuil -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Monet is considered the founder proper of Impressionism: with his painting Impression -- Soleil levant, he provoked the movement's name. Painting en plein air -- the spontaneous rendering of a momentary perception of nature as a phenomenon of light and colour -- became his primary goal, which he ceaselessly pursued throughout his life. Between 1878 and 1882, Monet lived in Véthevil, a village on the Seine. In this view, he has captured the atmosphere of a hot summer day and the air glistening in the sunlight with brilliant colours and nervous brushstrokes. He was mainly interested in how the intensity of the colours changed from nearness to distance, using vigorous yellows and greens for the foreground and delicate pastel hues for the sky.