The Japanese Bridge
Claude Monet (1899)
Claude Monet’s The Japanese Bridge centers a pale <strong>blue‑green arch</strong> above a horizonless pond, where water‑lily pads and blossoms punctuate a field of shifting reflections. The bridge reads as both structure and <strong>contemplative threshold</strong>, suspending the eye between surface shimmer and mirrored depths <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
