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…
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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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The Dark Side of The Nutcracker
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Claude Monet: The Path Through the Irises (1914-17)
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Beisembayev, Liszt, and Le Sidaner
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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…
Camille Pissarro: The Boulevard Monmartre on a Winter Morning (1897)
After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying the view from his lodgings at the Grand Hôtel de Russie in early 1897, Pissarro marveled that he could “see down the whole length of the boulevards” with “almost a bird’s-eye view of carriages,…
Edgar Degas, La Loge (1880), via The Paris Review
Art and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Cody Delistraty writes in The Paris Review, “Degas ultimately thought that his paintings of the women who performed at the opera cut through the stories they were telling themselves, about their claims to beauty, status, and talent. He believed that was the goal of the artist: to separate…
Lilla Cabot Perry: The Blue Kimono (1915)
Who Is Lilla Cabot Perry? Lilla Cabot Perry (1848 – 1933), an American artist and writer, is best known as an Impressionist painter, but she also published four volumes of original poetry and a translation of classical Greek verse. According to National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Although she had no formal art training until age 36,…
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