Visual Arts Critique

The Bridge at Argenteuil by Alfred Sisley is a landscape painted during the French Impressionism period . This painting is located at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in the European to 1900 collection . The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in Tennessee and displays art from antiquity to contemporary . I chose this museum because it has art from different time periods . This museum , upon first impression , was well organized , and the different collections were relatively easy to find . I chose The Bridge at Argenteuil because Alfred Sisley

's work is rarely studied

Alfred Sisley 's The Bridge at Argenteuil is a landscape painting . It is oil on canvas and 15 1 /4 by 24 inches . Painted in 1872 , The Bridge at Argenteuil depicts a quiet , country scene . Toward the right of the painting , there are warm-colored houses on top of a small hill , while toward the left of the painting is a river , in which is a small sail boat . The grass in the foreground is reminiscent of wheat fields There is a path that runs from the foreground of the painting out to the river , ending at a small dock , perhaps for fishing . There is a bridge in the background , seemingly tying the entire painting together Because there is no action in the painting , this work seems to be a study in quiet and calm country life

Every object in this landscape seems to be connected . For example , the path in the foreground leads...