The magpie

Description

"In this marvelous snowy landscape, Monet creates one of the most surprising shades of whites in the history of painting, in an intimate dimension of great poetic significance. In the description of a glimpse of the countryside, covered by a blanket of soft and white snow, the artist makes things tangible, plunged into stillness and silence, with a masterful play of shadows and lights, which manage to render spatial depth with all the relative atmospheric values. With skilful variations of tones and with a masterful use of light, the master manages to create in regard to even the sensation of cold air in the early morning hours. In this dormant and inanimate context, in some ways magical, the magpie is the only living being, the protagonist of the painting, in the same way as the sparrow solitary evoked in the touching verses of Leopardi, in a deliberately lyrical and romantic vision."

With this homage of mine to Claude Monet I tried to recreate the magic described above in some way.

The painting continues on the sides of the canvas, in order to make the frame optional.

(Loris)