An early painting by Monet that he undertook at the time, The Thames below Westminster, 1871, illustrates the instinctive allure fog held for him and finds the emerging artist gracefully weighing ...

Serres praised how in these paintings Monet produced a “much more subdued sun that on the river sheds an orange light.” In some of these examples, “the fog has dissolved all the forms,” so ...

Throughout the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution brought advancements in manufacturing across Europe, coal-burning ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up ... it was called “Fog Effect.” “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” is on view at the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Avenue ...

The most significant and sustained visions of modern London in paint are Claude Monet’s views of the Thames flaming in the fog and Frank Auerbach’s vistas of the fractured postwar city.

Karen Serres, the curator of the Courtauld show, spotted a smoking factory chimney in the fog on the ... Plattner’s painting also raises an intriguing question: did Monet paint his striking ...

“Without the fog, London wouldn’t be a beautiful city,” Monet once told art dealer René Gimpel, per the National Trust. “It’s the fog that gives it magnificent breadth. Those massive ...

Monet and Turner found something sublime in ... Here, he would fulfill his enduring wish to “try to paint some fog effects on the Thames.” At the Courtauld (less than half a mile from the ...

It’s the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth ... recorded visiting the Savoy with Georges Clemenceau when Monet stopped painting as the view became shrouded in “colourless obscurity ...

Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise,” one of the most famous paintings ever created ... who specialized in cloud, fog, sea spray and mist. From his home in Argenteuil, on the western fringe ...