Claude Monet - Rocks at Belle-Ile, Port-Domois 1886
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Rocks at Belle-Ile, Port-Domois 1886
72x58cm oil/canvas
St Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
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This is one of the five paintings that Monet produced of the Port-Domois islands. It is the only one in landscape format, enabling him to give a broader view of the conflict, of the battle between the rocks and the sea. The rocks are laid out to create a feeling of space. In the style of Japanese prints, which had much in common with Impressionist aesthetics, the horizon is placed at the top of the painting, leaving little room for sky. The extraordinary, atmospheric vibration of the sea is rendered through intense colour