Miłosz, 8a

 

The Japanese Bridge is an oil painting by Claude Monet. It was painted in 1899. It measures 81.3 x 101.6 cm. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art.In 1893, Monet moved to a home in the countryside of Giverny. In 1893 and the following years, he turned the swampy area of Giverny into a pool of water lilies. He became a source of artistic inspiration.In 1899, Monet painted 12 works that focused on the garden and the Japanese bridge he had built.The National Gallery of Art writes: "When Monet exhibited these paintings at Durand–Ruel's gallery in 1900, a number of critics mentioned his debt to Japanese art. More telling, the impenetrable green enclosure—heightened in the National Gallery painting by the placement of the top of the bridge's arch just belowthe painting's top edge—harkens back to the hortus conclusus, of medieval images, while also evoking a dreamlike contemplative zone consonant with symbolist literature, especially poems such as "Le Nénuphar blanc" by Stéphane Mallarmé. Gustave Geffroy described this effect in his review of the exhibition, speaking of "this minuscule pool where some mysterious corollas blossom," and "a calm pool, immobile, rigid, and deep like a mirror, upon which white water lilies blossom forth, a pool surrounded by softand hanging greenery which reflects itself in it."In the foreground you can see a bridge and a lake with lilies.In the background you can see a lake covered with lilies.

In the background, a mass of trees is visible as if there was a forest there.The background layout is asymmetrical.Tune the ruler in the picture is cheerful and agitated, he looks as if everything is blooming.The whole picture is painted with warm colors.In my opinion, the image is atypical, the image is slightly blurred beyond thebridge.Personally, I didn't like the painting because it's not my style, I prefer the van gogh style