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Garden At Sainte-Adresse And The Oxbow

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Garden at Sainte-Adresse and The Oxbow The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an astonishing place where people from all around the world gather to see wonderful art objects that some of it goes back the early centuries and even before the born of the Christ. Fortunately I had the opportunity to visit it and examine with my own eyes two of the most wonderful painting that I have ever seen (Garden at Sainte-Adresse and The Oxbow). I would like first to talk about my trip to the museum and then I will describe the two painting in details and give my overall impression about them. I actually got lucky because my uncle was going to New York City so he took me with him and by that I saved time and I had more time to spend in the museum. At the heart …show more content…

“Garden at Sainte-Adresse” was of course made during the Impressionist period and “The Oxbow” was made during the Hudson River School period. The title “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” indicates that the painting show a grand in France (Sainte-Adresse). In this painting we can see the blue sky with couple clouds and the English channel under it. There are ships and the smoke is coming out of their chimneys in the English channel as well as canoes and all of that is in the background. In the front, there are flowers, green grass and an old man and a woman sitting on chairs. The man is holding a crutch and the woman is holding an umbrella. There are two empty chairs next to them. In the front there are a man and woman standing by the edge of this garden and how also have a crutch and an umbrella. There are two flags one of them is the French flag and the other is the flag of the town of Sainte-Adresse. On the other hand, the title “The Oxbow” doesn’t give a clear idea about the content of the painting. The painting shows a view from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm.There are some broken trees and some birds in the sky on the left and an oxbow lake on the right. We can see some hills and mountains in the background as well as sky and a majestic view of the clouds that can almost touch the ground with a small hidden

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