Behind The Gare Saint-Lazare

As one of the world's first photojournalists, Henri Cartier Bresson changed the industry through his concept of a "decisive moment", a dramatic climax of photography, everything is perfect. Since 1931, the image of Cartier Bresson is known for his excellent sense of time and intuition to capture the right moment. In order to fully understand Cartier Bresson's painting, you first have to understand his art philosophy.

Gare Saint-Lazare, Auteuil Line, Monet's Gare Other paintings by Saint-Lazare are not isolated moments from artist's work. In the 1870 's, most other major Impressionist painters including Monet and Caillebotte, Pizarro, Renaire, Degas, Guyoman, Rafaeli, even Manet showed the railroad as their modern life paintings. Stable interest in the subject. Indeed, six to eight paintings exhibited by Monet at the 3rd Impressionist exhibition are displayed together with the monument of Le Couleevault, Le Pont de Europa (picture below), there is also Saint Lazare station. did. Caillebot's painting shows the huge iron bridge from the pier - the location of the European bridge. Interestingly, the exquisite paintings of Caillebot drawn in the bourgeois world of Paris' boulevard have been praised, and Monet's train, steam and industrial paintings have been severely criticized.

In The Gare Saint-Lazare, Auteuil Line Monet showed a strong interest in the processing of light, color and paint, but Auteuil Line, Gare Saint-Lazare could not escape the theme - locomotives, steam and Garden Gare Saint-Lazare. In this bright scene, Monet offers us a new vision of modern life without avoiding its industrial aspect.

Light - the element of the main form of so many Impressionist paintings - the Girl Saint Lazare girl of the Otay Rail is particularly interesting. Here, like many of Impressionist painters' most famous paintings, Monet presents a bright day and works to reproduce a close observation of pure sunshine. A rotating steam cloud adds effects and creates a layer of light filling the canvas. But here we have to break as Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil line is an exception for the whole group - it's one of the two pictures of the station that are bright and appear on a sunny day . In contrast, the other ten paintings (such as the paintings of the Harvard Museum above) represent the darkness, hustle and bustle of the Saint-Lazare museum. Interest in sunlight is an exception and abnormal, but Gare Saint-Lazare, Auteuil Line has much in common with other paintings on at least the theme and prospect.