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MONET, Claude: The Magpie

🖼 The Magpie, 1869
Oil on canvas
89 × 130 cm
Paris, France

Soft snow blankets a winter landscape, broken by a stark black magpie perched on a fence, rendered in luminous blues and purples. Monet captures fleeting light effects and atmospheric conditions, pioneering Impressionism's focus on perception over detail and establishing landscape as high art.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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