Environmental degradation

Featured Artworks

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect

Claude Monet (1903 (begun 1900))

Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect renders London as a lilac-blue atmosphere where form yields to light. The bridge’s stone arches persist as anchors, yet the span dissolves into mist while flecks of lemon and ember signal modern traffic crossing a city made weightless [1][2]. Vertical hints of chimneys haunt the distance, binding industry to beauty as the Thames shimmers with the same notes as the sky [1][3].

Sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh (1888)

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) is a yellow-on-yellow still life that stages a full cycle of life in fifteen blooms, from fresh buds to brittle seed heads. The thick impasto, green shocks of stem and bract, and the vase signed “Vincent” turn a humble bouquet into an emblem of endurance and fellowship [1][2].

The Millinery Shop

Edgar Degas (1879–1886)

Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop stages modern Paris through a quiet act of work rather than display. A young woman, cropped in profile, studies a glowing orange hat while faceless stands crowned with ribbons and plumes press toward the picture plane. Degas turns a boutique into a meditation on labor, commodities, and identity [1][2].

Charing Cross Bridge

Claude Monet (1901)

In Charing Cross Bridge, Claude Monet turns London into atmosphere itself: the bridge flattens into a cool, horizontal band while mauves, lavenders, and pearly grays veil the city. Spirals of pink steam and pockets of pale blue read as trains, lamps, or smoke transfigured by weather, so place becomes sensation rather than structure.