{"id":13159,"date":"2021-10-07T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:46:47","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-6a-claude-monets-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/13159","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists \u2013 Claude Monet’s Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

see A Small List of Great Artists Claude Monet<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1840-1926)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, all through art school, I had very little interest in Monet, although I do remember a student in class sharing an art book that we flipped through together, and I began to realize how Monet had done a series of very similar paintings of a cathedral, and then later in the book, he had done a number of very similar paintings of hay stacks in the fields. My fellow student said that she found these series interesting, and pointed out that Monet was looking at how light played on these places at different times of the day. So Monet would paint the setting in the morning, and then he woud paint it again, at high sun, or during sunset – or on a cloudy day, and again on a sunny day. These types of images, then, become more interesting to me as you see them as a series, and not just as a stand-alone piece. And from a comic book point of view, they become narrative, or filmic, rather than one moment in time – because it documents changes in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I began my comic, Brush with Peril<\/em>, referencing art by Monet was the last thing on my mind. I thought of him as a painter of parks and plants and “girly things” that weren’t suitable for a manly man like me who only enjoys spies and fast cars and sports and guns and other manly things like that. HOWEVER, spy novels have to have suspenseful scenes on trains, and when I started looking for train themes in the history of art, a number of Monet’s paintings popped up, and I realized that this too was somewhat of a series he had dabbled with. In fact, this is considered his first <\/em> series of paintings that concentrate on a theme. AND I really liked<\/em> this series, so I would say that Monet’s trains were my gateway drug into an appreciation of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claude Monet<\/a>, Train in the Country<\/a><\/em> (1870), Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/a>, Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Train<\/em> (1872), Pola Museum of Art<\/a>, Hakone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Argenteuil Station<\/em> (1872), Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/a>, Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Le Pont du chemin de fer, Argenteuil<\/em> (1873), private collection <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil<\/em> (1873), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Promenade near the Bridge of Argenteuil <\/em>(1874), St Louis Art Museum<\/a>, MO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil<\/em> (1874), Saint Louis Art Museum<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil<\/em> <\/a>(1874) Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil<\/a><\/em> (1874), Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/a> , Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Railway Bridge at Argenteuil<\/em> <\/a>(1874), Mus\u00e9e Marmottan-Monet<\/a> Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Argenteuil Bridge<\/em> (1875), National Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Buenos Aires <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Train in the Snow at Argenteuil<\/em> (1875), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Train in the Snow<\/a><\/em> (1875), Mus\u00e9e Marmottan-Monet<\/a> Paris <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Europe Bridge Saint-Lazare Station in Paris<\/em> (1877), Mus\u00e9e Marmottan-Monet<\/a> Paris <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Sainte-Lazare Station, Exterior View<\/em> (1887), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Exterior of the Saint Lazare Station Arrival of a Train<\/em> (1877), private collection <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, La Tranch\u00e9e des Batignolles<\/em> (1877),Kunsthalle W\u00fcrth<\/a>, Rome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Track signals outside Saint-Lazare Station<\/em> (1877), Landesmuseum Hannover<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Saint Lazare Railway Station, the Western Docks<\/em> (1877), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Train Tracks at the Saint-Lazare Station<\/em> (1877), Pola Museum of Art<\/a>, Hakone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Gare Saint-Lazare (Suburban Lines)<\/em> (1877) Mus\u00e9e Marmottan-Monet<\/a>, Paris <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Arrival of the Normandy Train, at the Saint-Lazare<\/em> (1877), The Art Institute of Chicago <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, Saint Lazare Station<\/em> (1877), National Gallery<\/a>, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Saint-Lazare Station<\/em> (1877) Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/a>, Paris, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet<\/a>, The Saint Lazare Train Station in Paris, Arrival of a Train<\/em><\/a> (1877), Fogg Museum<\/a>, Harvard University, Cambridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Claude Monet<\/a>, The Saint Lazare Train Station in Paris, Arrival of a Train<\/em><\/a> (1877), Fogg Museum<\/a>, Harvard University, Cambridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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see A Small List of Great Artists Claude Monet\u00a0(French, 1840-1926) For some reason, all through art school, I had very little interest in Monet, although I do remember a student in class sharing an art book that we flipped through together, and I began to realize how Monet had done a series of very similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brush-with-peril"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t