Transcript Around the golden ratio La Gare Saint-Lazare Lucie F. , Hiromi A.

Around the golden ratio
La Gare Saint-Lazare
Lucie F. , Hiromi A. , Emma Ray D.
La Gare Saint-Lazare
This painting of Monet can be seen in the Orsay Museum in Paris.
The work
“La gare Saint Lazare” was painted in 1877 by french painter
Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Claude Monet
DETAILS of The work
In 1877, moving to Nouvelle Athènes, Claude Monet asks for the right to work in the
Saint-Lazare rail station. It was the perfect place to look for different bright effects ,to
study the move of the subject , the steam clouds, and a modern pattern.
The painting is pure. Some parts are abstract. This work was appreciate by Gustave
Caillebotte, another modern french painter,despite he had a completly opposite style of
Monet.
The technique used is oil painting on a canvas.
The dimensions of the painting are 75x104cm
The golden ratio and his work
He built his work using the 2-4-8 system of the golden ratio. The
iron frame is in the middle of the width, which is equal to the
half of the painting and goes on the horizontal median. The
train and its steam are aligned under it and the lower quarts
begin on the left of the wagon and on the right of the
smokestack.
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