Claude Monet – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

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 (1914-17)

“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’s 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 (1880)

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Claude Monet: The Path Through the Irises (1914-17)

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Monet’s 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, Arm of the Jeufosse Autumn (1884)

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Claude Monet: Nymphéas (c1910)

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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….