After Monet, other artists adopted
the Impressionist approach to stylistic painting to create their own works of
art. Pierre Auguste Renoir took
inspiration from Claude Monet to produce his early works like this painting of Le
Pont Neuf.
Similar to Monet's method, Renoir
focuses on sunlight here. The entire
painting is almost blindingly bright because it is depicting the warm afternoon
sun's effect on the light-colored pavement of the street. The Seine River and the buildings in the
distance beyond the bridge appear much shadier, but the radiation of the sun on
the bright pavement's surface causes viewers to feel an immediate intensity of
glare which almost makes one think about putting sunglasses on when looking at
this painting. The vividness of the
light is one of the clearest elements of this painting, and Renoir
intentionally wanted to paint this busy Parisian spot right in the middle of
the day, at the height of the sun's brilliance.
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