The saint-Lazare Station is an Oil on canvas that is 60.3 x 80.2 cm (23 3/4 x 31 1/2 in.) and is Inscribed on the lower left: Claude Monet 77. The Gare Saint-Lazare was the largest and busiest train station in Paris. Monet rented an apartment in nearby it and began the first of 12 canvases showing this icon of modernit. This painting is one of four surviving canvases representing the interior of the station. The Swift brushstrokes indicate the gleaming engines to the right and the crowd of passengers on the platform. This piece is a form of French Impressionism, a style that was concerned with the accurate rendering of sunlight and its effect on the color of its surroundings. Monet began his paintings of the Paris railway-station Gare Sainte-Lazare in 1876, and completed it in 1878. This painting was the beginning of the several series of paintings that are overall a remarkable contribution to modern art and a notch on Monet’s belt.
Mont Sainte-Victoire_, Paul Cézanne is an oil on canvas sizing at 73 x 91.9 cm. Cézanne began this work in 1904 and completed it in 1906. Cézanne often sketched the railway bridge on the Aix-Marseille line at the Arc River Valley in the center on the right side of the picture. Cézanne praised the Mont Sainte-Victoire, which he viewed from the train while passing through the railway bridge at Arc River Valley, as a “beau motif (beautiful motif)”. Much like Monet, Cézanne’s work was inspired by a real place that he admired and later became a series of paintings alike. The styles of this painting is Post-Impressionism. Cézanne famously claimed that nature should be treated in terms of three-dimensional geometric shapes. Horizontal lines created breadth and vertical ones suggested depth so Cézanne thought. The two paintings are very similar in style. They both use a technique making the painting look clearer and more defined from afar but blurrier and less organized up close. While Mont Sainte-Victoire shows more of a natural and earthy look, The saint-Lazare Station is more industrial looking and uses led colors seen in nature like greens and browns.
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