french pie oil canvas landscape painting french created winter near normandy patron helped arrange house girlfriend newborn son allowing paint relative comfort surrounded family fellow painted hundreds landscapes illustrating natural effect snow similar winter paintings lesser quantity produced art historians believe series severe winters france contributed increase number winter landscapes produced approximately produced cart snowy road painted followed notable series year beginning road saint farm winter completed largest winter painting followed known winter painting featuring canvas depicts solitary black gate formed fence light sun shines fallen snow creating blue shadows painting features examples use colored shadows later associated movement colored shadows represent actual changing conditions light shadow seen nature challenging academic convention painting shadows black theory color perception introduced art world works earlier century time innovative use light color led rejection today art historians classify best paintings painting privately held acquired considered popular paintings permanent collection background late 1850s french landscape painter introduced art painting air open air natural light invention metal paint tube portable brought painting confined studios outdoors spent summer painting nature like came prefer painting outdoors studio convention time painter said owe landscape paintings dutch painter influenced contributed development early meeting began interest perspective changing conditions landscape learned substitute optical color local color teaching received moment true master later completed education eye new way seeing shift conceptual approach formed basis series works showing effects dynamic atmospheric conditions time single motif painting snow effects early landscape style preferred japanese dutch flemish artists influenced painted cart snowy road journalist observed seen winter days snow communications virtually cold split stones noticed foot warmer man coats hands gloves face half frozen studying snow effect cart snowy road avoided usual hunting genre motifs instead focused light color new way reducing number shades chose earth tone color scheme increased number shades blue highlight reflections snow followed cart snowy road notable series including road saint farm winter campaign girlfriend gave birth son jean paris lacking money returned father house lived aunt leaving child paris married art collector patron helped rent house jean late recovering episode depression joined jean house october role muse life model december great spirits surrounded love began focus painting letter wrote spend time open beach weather bad fishing boats countryside beautiful find charming winter summer naturally work time believe year going things enjoyed living jean preferred paint countryside told don think directly nature better mind conditions better taken sees hears paris firm painting merit resembling simply expression shall felt personally time completed paintings fishing boats rural road late january february painted years major exhibition winter landscapes largest class exact location snow scene depicted unknown proposed painted scene near estuary rejection salon submitted fishing boats sea salon paintings rejected april critic said rejected painting common coarse experimental use color radical departure descriptive academic style surprised public probably contributed dismissal jury told french novelist rejection taken bread mouth spite low prices collectors dealers turn backs century later acquired popular paintings permanent collection critical analysis painting black gate fence sunlight falls fresh white snow creating shadows human figures present bird gate focus called painting extraordinary snow bound late winter afternoon long shadows creates delicate contrast whites sky landscape curator san_francisco noted interest changing light depended hour atmosphere unusual weather phenomena snow mist fascinated altered appearance familiar topography paintings early form combination greatly restricted color range aerial perspective broken color performance painting essay variations white reflection sun crisp new snow wonderfully abstract passages flat color strong violet shades fence divorced spatial realities objects portrayed early example investigation colored shadows piece makes use colors blue yellow shadow produced yellow sunlight shining snow gives impression blue violet color effect simultaneous contrast french popularized use colored shadows went artistic convention portraying shadows color colored shadows directly observed nature particularly type snow scene presented study art historian observed artists investigate problem shadows problem summarized art ages effects light color forms concluded local color object true color white light modified quality light shining reflections objects effects colors produce shadows appear gray black earlier painters thought composed colors modified reflections conditions colors short brush strokes able catch accurately quality light use colored shadows arose color theories popular 19th century german scientist published modern descriptions colored shadows theory colours attempted challenge theory color treatise raised questions objective color theory perception intuitive non mathematical approach criticized attack newton dismissed questions raised color persisted thirty years later french chemist expanded theory principles harmony contrast colors colour theory greatly influenced art world generally thought incorporated elements theories work came prominence technique division style influenced color scheme theories american physicist related work series paintings depicting bridge explored use colored shadows portrayal blue purple shadow portion bridge years obsessed color light wife dying september painted deathbed noting blue yellow grey tones told friend french statesman spent time focusing temples automatically analyzing succession appropriately graded colors death imposing face died cancer age death largely ceased painting people focusing instead natural landscapes later returned painting snow colored shadows derivative work honor anniversary birth issued stamp designed french french design studio les created version exhibition grand collection paris collection paris collection paris paris paris
The Magpie (Monet)