Shop art print and framed art Le brouillard, Voisins by Alfred Sisley

The Fog, Voisins is a painting by the English painter Alfred Sisley, painted in 1874 and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. In 1871, the English painter Alfred Sisley moved to Voisins, a village a stone's throw from Louveciennes: the special relationship between Sisley and the villages he settled in is described in Alfred Sisley § Summary. In any case, this suburb provided him with the pretext for painting a landscape bathed in blinding fog. This work, like others by Sisley, takes no account whatsoever of the conventional ways in which a view of this type was usually conceived, so that the colour is applied in rapid, cursory strokes, without recourse to preparatory drawing. In the painting, we can barely make out (or rather guess at) a long fence in the background, a pile of leaves on the left, a tree with skeletal but sturdy branches and, finally, a peasant woman, probably busy working the land, or perhaps picking flowers (to her left, in fact, we can make out a bush of lush white flowers, albeit obscured by the greyness of the mist). The real protagonist of the painting, however, is precisely the mist, which plunges the field of Voisins into a flickering, smoky atmosphere, almost as fluid as the stuff of dreams: in fact, it is not the aggressive fog of London nights, but "a subtle harmony, a silent poetry" that invests the various volumes and transfigures them in grey-blue tones. With an extraordinary innovative force, Sisley no longer relates to the landscape with the [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Le brouillard, Voisins » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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