Saint-Lazare Train Station (1877)
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of London
Monet was the founder of French impressionist painting using new approaches to art – painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes. He could paint brilliant color, but also utilized grayed down neutral colors. Monet seemed to find inspiration in common subjects and applied his techniques to create atmosphere and changing light. St. Lazare Train Station was inspiring with its shapes, movement, line, colors and machine-made clouds of steam and ash.
Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of London
Monet was the founder of French impressionist painting using new approaches to art – painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes. He could paint brilliant color, but also utilized grayed down neutral colors. Monet seemed to find inspiration in common subjects and applied his techniques to create atmosphere and changing light. St. Lazare Train Station was inspiring with its shapes, movement, line, colors and machine-made clouds of steam and ash.
Light Rail – Nicollet Mall Station
Nancy Patrick Carney
Acrylic on canvas 22”x 26” In a cold and snowy atmosphere, Minneapolis passengers hurry to board the light rail train at the Nicollet Mall station. |
St. Lazare, 2011, After Monet
Calvin deRuyter
Watercolor on paper, mounted and varnished 30”x22” (Inspired by a photo by Gina McDaniels) Monet’s atmospheric rendition is lost to the lines, shapes, and angles of a modern St. Lazare train station of today. |
West 4th Street
Emily Donovan Acrylic on Canvas 22” x 26” The sights, sounds, smells and chaotic feelings are captured of New York City’s public transportation system for the novice traveler. |
The Hiawatha Steam Giants
Susan Fryer Voigt Watercolor and acrylic on panel 16”x16” The Milwaukee Depot in downtown Minneapolis resembles the Lazare Train Station, with the behemoth Hiawatha Line steam engines. |
Destination Unknown
Pamela Weisdorf
Mixed medium on panel 27” x 21” Looking at Monet’s painting from another angle, I’ve created a surrealistic scene. Is the train coming or going? I see similarities in the foreshortened perspective of illusionism of the Renaissance and the dislocation of images and meanings of Surrealism. |
Sunrise at the Station
Emmy White
Watercolor with acrylic varnish finish 32”x24” Pinks and blue dominate this sun rise view of what may have been the Milwaukee Station in Minneapolis. Looking West you see the fog and steam and the old station's clock tower. |