Etretat: L’Aiguille and the Porte d’ave Vs. Charing Cross Bridge

Etretat: L’Aiguille and the Porte d’ave - Claude Monet

Monet painted another painting of a similar view, named Etretat: L’Aiguille and the Porte d’ave. It is also an impressionistic piece of a view of a body of water with two rocks in the middle. Although the subject of both pieces is the same, the Etretat: L’Aiguille and the Porte d’ave is painted with a different set of colours. Monet used fewer colours. He stuck with basically shades blues and greens and less pinks and oranges. His strokes are more visible in this painting than Charing Cross Bridge, especially at the bottom where he dabbed bits of dark blue in various places. There is also white painted in the sky. From the colours, it is obvious that both paintings were painted from a different time of day. Etretat: L’Aiguille and the Porte d’ave seems to be painted in the afternoon on a summer day. The lines in this painting are not as horizontal as the other one. They vary from dabs to vertical strokes. Monet also used actual lines to show the texture of the rocks, unlike how he only used dabs to show the texture of the bridge. Although the subject of both paintings are very similar to each other, both with bodies of water, the colour and line usage are very different which creates a totally different effect for each painting.