Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Monets 'Sun breaking Through The Fog'

As part of my Westminster To Tower bridge research I have been Looking at Monets London paintings of the Thames and smog link(new scientist)
The sunlight pierces the smoggy sky over London's Houses of Parliament (Image: Christies Images/Corbis)

image from Christies
Monet painted Sun Breaking Through The Fog' in 1904, from the window of his hotel room in the Savoy
Web Musum. Paris


It is worth quoting a passage from Peter Ackroyds excellent biography of London, Vintage
page436 quoting Monet on London Fogs.

"Then, in London, above all what I love is the fog....that gives it its magnificent breadth. Those massive,regular blocks become grandouse within that mysterious cloak."

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