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Claude Monet: Nymphéas fragment
“Monet first painted the Nymphéas in 1897 and the motif occupied the artist until his death in 1926; hundreds of canvases illustrate the pond and surrounding gardens. As the series progressed, Monet’s art underwent a shift from his earlier, more precise impressionistic landscapes to increasingly indulgent and vibrant waterscapes that border on abstraction. Monet wrote…
Gautier Capucon: Thais Meditation
“Painted in 1876, Dans la prairie dates from the time that Claude Monet spent in Argenteuil, a pool of rural calm and beauty within easy reach of Paris. The picture is filled with colour, with flowers captured in darting brushstrokes that lend the work a deliberately hazy vivacity. And dominating the composition, despite the fact that she…
Claude Monet: Woman with a Parasol
“Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours’ duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses….
Exhibition: French Impressionism from MFA, Boston
“Camille, Monet’s first wife, is shown with a child in the garden of their house in Argenteuil, near Paris, where they lived between 1872 and 1877. The shimmering reds, blues, greens, and white that capture the brilliance of a sun-drenched day are applied with many small brushstrokes, whose varied shapes create the different textures of…
Exhibition: Melbourne Masterpieces 2025
Exhibition Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2025: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 6, 2025 – October 5, 2025 “Venice, Monet had always told his wife, was “too beautiful to paint.” But when he accepted the invitation of an American friend to stay at her rented palazzo on the Grand Canal in 1908,…
Claude Monet: Iris mauves
“One striking characteristic of Monet’s paintings of the irises in the water garden is his experimentation with unusual and unexpected vantage points. In three canvases from the 1914-1917 sequence, for example, Monet set up his easel on the Japanese bridge in the garden and painted the view looking down on the clumps of irises and…
Claude Monet: Sandvika, Norway
“Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania (now Oslo), he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good motifs amid the snow. Nevertheless, he painted 29 Norwegian scenes during…
Claude Monet: Houses of Parliament, Sunset
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Robert Kahn: Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano, op. 73
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Claude Monet: The Museum at Le Havre
“During the 1870s when he was living at Argenteuil, on the outskirts of Paris, Monet made several trips back to Le Havre, where he had grown up… Despite the fact that it is relatively large, the picture has the sketchy quality of Monet’s smaller canvases. Broken brushwork conveys the gentle movement of rippling water and…
Karla Bonoff: The Water Is Wide
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Claude Monet: The Steps
“In L’Escalier, Monet has selected as his subject an unprepossessing but utterly charming corner of an old farmyard. The pale stucco walls and steeply slanting, shingled roofs form a shallow succession of jostling planes, with only a narrow strip of cloud-flecked sky visible at the top of the canvas. In compositional terms, L’Escalier is anchored…
Claude Monet: Cabin of the Customs Watch
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A Visit to Monet’s Garden
Monet frequently painted outdoors, drawing endless inspiration from the plants, trees, and pond at Giverny. The gardens on his property were the great extravagance of his final years; their upkeep required the services of six full-time gardeners. Monet planted agapanthus—a thin, wispy lily plant native to Africa—along the banks of his pond as well as…
How Claude Monet Transformed French Painting
“Monet expanded the gardens surrounding his home at Giverny, in northern France, after seeing a Japanese garden and water-lily display at the 1889 world’s fair in Paris. The arched bridge he placed over a new pond may have been suggested by a Japanese gardener (as yet unidentified) who visited him when he was planning the…
Claude Monet: Water Lilies
“Plants, water, and sky seem to merge in Claude Monet’s evocative painting of his lily pond at Giverny. The disorienting reflections, bold brushstrokes, and lack of horizon line or spatial depth make Water Lilies appear almost abstract. Painted about 1922, it belongs to a grand project that Monet had conceived as far back as 1897:…
A Little Monet, A Little Mozart
“The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town of Antibes in the south of France. Monet traveled there in January of 1888 and was dazzled by the light and the striking scenery of the legendary Côte d’Azur (Azure Coast). However, he sometimes struggled with how to represent it…
Claude Monet: The Basin at Argenteuil (c. 1872)
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Casting Crowns: I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day
“In the late 1860s, Monet started to extend the need to capture sensations and render “the effect” to all transitory, even fleeting states of nature. Taking Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley with him, Monet tackled the great challenge of a snow-covered landscape, which Courbet had grandly explored with great success not long before. Toning down Courbet’s…
Diogo Rodrigues: Canarios (Sanz)
Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this performance in his post, Canarios: Sanz & Rodrigo. See More Claude Monet At Sunnyside Claude Monet at Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris List of Paintings by Claude Monet at wikiwand Works by Claude Monet at Museum Barberini Claude Monet at Museum…
Claude Monet: Venice, Palazzo Dario (1908)
The Venetian series that Claude Monet began during his stay in the city in 1908 comprised 37 paintings of 10 different motifs. Here his main subject is the marble facade of the 15th-century Palazzo Dario on the Grand Canal. Art Institute of Chicago See More Tag: Claude Monet At Sunnyside Claude Monet at Musée Marmottan…
Claude Monet: Nymphéas en fleur
“Although Monet created the water garden in part to fulfill his passion for horticulture, he also intended it as a source of artistic inspiration. In his petition to the authorities, Monet specified that the pond would serve “for the pleasure of the eyes and also for the purpose of having subjects to paint” (quoted in…
Claude Monet: The Road in front of Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter (1867)
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Monet: Grainstacks II
“Monet’s paintings from this series bear the French title Meules, a word that can be translated as “stacks.” For a long time the title was misinterpreted as Haystacks; however, the objects in Monet’s paintings are actually sheaves of grain. In the agriculture of nineteenth-century Normandy, conical stacks of unthreshed grain were covered with straw or…
Claude Monet: Poires et raisin
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Claude Monet: The Path Through the Irises (1914-17)
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Monet: Grainstacks I
“In Monet’s increasingly urbanized world, such stacks had become postcard symbols of agricultural bounty as a blessing. Determined with his grainstack paintings to go beyond the brilliantly exacting transcription of visual sensations at the heart of Impressionist landscape painting, Monet explained the challenge to his art critic friend, Gustave Geffroy in October 1890: “… the…
Claude Monet: Nymphéas
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Hauser: Benedictus
“What a task this cathedral is!” wrote Monet from Rouen, in a letter to his wife in Giverny. He painted nearly thirty views of the cathedral’s façade, moving from one canvas to the next to capture different moments throughout the day. After returning home, he continued to work on this series for two more years….
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