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MONET, Claude: Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog

🖼 Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog, 1899-1901
Oil on canvas
65 × 100 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Ethereal fog envelops the bridge's iron structure in muted blues and purples, dissolving architecture into atmosphere through delicate impressionist brushwork. Monet captures London's industrial landscape as fleeting light and weather effects, prioritizing sensory experience over topographic clarity—pioneering modernist painting's focus on perception itself.

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