“When the Seine froze solid in the winter of 1892-93 and then thawed, Monet painted the series Ice-Floes, a startling landscape of pastel ice afloat on glassy silvery-gray-to-cold water. Some of the whitest whites exist as a bare canvas he decided not to paint. Monet understood the subjective lens through which snow, though rumored to be white, often appears confetti colored as it reflects the winter sun. Dig a hole in the snow and a blue shadow appears at the bottom, because on our planet all shadows are blue, sky-tinted, the scheme of winter dawn.”
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