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MONET, Claude: The River

🖼 The River, 1881
Oil on canvas
54 × 73 cm
Potsdam, Germany

Shimmering water reflects fractured light in loose, broken brushstrokes that dissolve solid forms into pure atmosphere. Monet captures fleeting perception itself, pioneering Impressionism's radical shift from realistic representation to the subjective experience of vision and light.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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