We are in the second week of our Art Blogmas 2021 here at the Culture Tourist. Today, you can enjoy in one of the most beautiful Impressionist paintings with a winter theme: Gustave Caillebotte’s View of Rooftops (Effect of Snow).
Art Blogmas 2021
Last year’s Culture Tourist’s Art Blogmas was entirely dedicated to the theme of Winter in Art History. This week, I’m reflecting on some of the most beautiful artworks from the last year. And this painting by Gustave Caillebotte is absolutely one of them.
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Gustave Caillebotte: View of Rooftops (Effect of Snow)
⤷ Where is it? Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Today you can learn more about the work of the French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte and his painting on which he showed Paris in winter. Caillebotte wasn’t only a painter, but he was also one of the first artists experimenting with photography as an art form. Perhaps this can explain an unusual perspective of this painting.
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With numerous shades of grey, he painted the roofs of the Montmartre neighbourhood in Paris. And managed to capture the month of December in the French capital perfectly. You can almost feel the cold through the painting, right?
It’s so fascinating to observe how the Impressionist painters painted snow in their paintings. It’s never just a white area of the picture. Instead, you can always find so many different shades of numerous colours on it. It’s similar to their representation of water. It definitely shows their fascination with the light and water.
Today, the painting is displayed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. You can see it there, together with some other of his famous artworks.
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If you don’t want to miss other paintings I will share with you in this year’s Art Blogmas, be sure to check in here tomorrow at 7:30 am. Or, follow along on the Culture Tourist Facebook page and Instagram profile.