Home/Symbols/Shadowed tree curtainShadowed tree curtain SymbolismMaterial presence and structure pressing against perception; a boundary between solidity and vaporCommon ThemesMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Medium reflexivity (art about art)Mortality & transience (memento mori)Seasons & cyclesLandscape & placeThe sublime & aweArtworks Featuring This SymbolMorning on the Seine (series)Claude Monet (1897)Claude Monet’s Morning on the Seine (series) turns dawn into an inquiry about <strong>perception</strong> and <strong>time</strong>. In this canvas, the left bank’s shadowed foliage dissolves into lavender mist while a pale radiance opens at right, fusing sky and water into a single, reflective field <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
