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Saint-Lazare station

and the pont de l’europe

Claud monet

The title of the painting is saint-lazare station and the pont


de l’Europe. I have compared this with the painting pont
de l’Europe by Gustave Caillebotte as they are both of the
same railway but from different prospectives. This is not a
one off painting by monet as he repainted this image
many times. I think Monet chose to paint this picture as
Railways were a major symbol of modern life back in those
days and also were considered the “new cathedrals of
France”, Also I feel he painted this picture because he
believed in painting every day objects. Railways were also
very popular to writers and even composers. The
movement that monet belonged to were called the
impressionists and were given this name in the 19th
century around 1870 and were based in Paris. The artists
that belonged to this group all believed that artists should
paint ordinary, everyday objects that could be observed
by anyone around the city. The other members of this
movement were Frederic Bazille, Mary Cassatt, Edgar
Degas, Edouard Manet, Berth morisot, Camille Pissarro ,
Pierre-auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.

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