piettes house in montfoucault snow effect camille pissarro

piettes house in montfoucault snow effect camille pissarroA half hidden house stands in the centre of a snowy landscape. It is surrounded by bare trees and snow covered bushes. The scene is calm, frozen in the silence of winter. In the foreground, a white covered path winds slightly to the right. The sky is pale grey, heavy with moisture, with no direct source of light. Camille Pissarro paints here the house of his friend Ludovic Piette in Montfoucault, in the middle of winter. The palette is limited: shades

characteristic of Monet's Impressionism

Joy of living is a painting by Robert Delaunay

a white-covered path winds slightly to the right

including The Port of St Tropez for example

the expressionist artist pays tribute to the work of a washerwoman laying out clothes on a rope

The trees are beginning to fill with leaves

yet always inspired by objects and machines

The painting "Open Window

and had painted side by side many open-air scenes

Each lantern

resting on a bed of abstract forms

recalling both an explosion and a birth