A Monet Moment
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Respite in the Garden of Giverny
Enjoy yourself here, pour yourself a glass of lemonade or a cup of tea and think light and cheerful thoughts as inspired by the colors and brushstrokes of Impressionism at its most blithe.
Contents at a Glance
Monet Passion
for those with a passion for Monet
Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration, and Insights from the Painter's Gardens
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A gorgeous art book for those who love gardens and love Monet. Lasting inspirations from photos alive with the beautiful colors and design genius of a master- both on canvas and in the garden.
Giverny Moments
Why Monet Planted His Famous Garden
His Garden as Monet Saw It
Le Pont Japonais a Giverny
Monet, Claude
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The Artist's Garden at Giverny, c.1900
Monet, Claude
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Many famous artists suffered from eyesight problems, Monet's were well -known.
Livescience.com discusses the effect of his sightloss on his painting:
During his lifetime it was known he suffered from cataracts.
As cataracts develop details fade out and shapes blur, white yellows, greens become yellow-green and reds are perceived as oranges. Blues and purples become replaced by reds and yellows.
Monet, for whose work fine variations in color were a hallmark, often expressed his frustration to friends and family as his vision failed between 1912 and 1922.
"He wrote letters to friends, how colors were getting dull, and it was hard to tell them apart, and how he had to label tubes of paint," Marmor said. "He was very vocal about how his failing eyesight was affecting him."
Garden at GivernyMonet, Claude
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His fuzzy view of the world gives his paintings the dreamlike quality and results in a calming melange of color for the viewer.
As for the the opinion of the researcher into the results of this sight loss:
"I think it does not say that the paintings are good or bad or answer to the question as to how much they were trying to change their style," Marmor said. "But I think it points out very dramatically some physical limitations that they had, which both limited their ability to paint, to put paint on canvas directly, but also to interpret what they were putting on a canvas-they couldn't really judge what they were seeing."
Learn More About Monet
Monet @ CafePress
Monet for Every Day
Monet Inspired Other Artists
He can inspire you
'Giverny Garden' c.1890 Philip Leslie Hale - American Impressionist Painter - 1865 - 1931
'Summer, Giverny' 1910 - Alson Skinner Clark - American Painter - 1876 - 1949
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet
'Monet's House'
Journey to Girverny II
Coutu, Heidi
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Pathway to Giverny
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Giverny's Grand Entrance
Singley, Greg
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En Plein Air
means "in the open air". Outdoor painting was favored by French Impressionist painters.
Claude Monet
Take a moment to visit a Monet Painting
through the eyes of those who appreciate him, his art, and gardens
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Looking For Monet
- Giverny blog
- beautiful photos of the garden at Giverny
- Wikipedia Impressionism
- Learn about the style of painting that Monet helped pioneer
- A Site for Sight: Monet
- Stanford U. Lecture with pictures
- The Monet Blog
- All About Monet
- Welcome to Claude Monet's
- Claude Monet's life, impressionist Art, house and garden in Giverny. Related museums and exhibitions
Monet Pour Vous
Giverny and Monet
Many of his most beloved and inspired paintings were of the garden at Giverny. It is a living garden still maintained and open to the public, surely on an artistic soul's "top ten places to see" bucket list.
Monet's Colors At Home
Colors of Monet
At the beginning of his career Monet used dark colors, but from 1860 on, Monet shunned dark colors and worked from a palette of pure and pale hues.If you look carefully, what appears black is almost never really black. It might be purple or a mix of colors, but not ivory black.
He said of this:
"As for the colors I use, what's so interesting about that ? I don't think one could paint better or more brightly with another palette. The most important thing is to know how to use the colors. Their choice is a matter of habit. In short, I use white lead, cadmium yellow, vermilion, madder, cobalt blue, chrome green. That's all."
Garden palettes for your home from the paintings of Monet
Did you enjoy the garden here?
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MintySea
Nov 2, 2011 @ 3:48 pm | delete
- Lovely monet lens
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aLundy
Jun 6, 2011 @ 12:02 am | delete
- Really enjoyed your lens.
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Ilona1
Jun 13, 2011 @ 10:22 am | delete
- I appreciate you saying so :)
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nuestraherencia
Jun 2, 2011 @ 4:10 pm | delete
- Great collection of Monet's paintings here. He has always been one of my favorite painters. Very well described in your lenses...full of color, yet peaceful. Great job!
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Ilona1
Jun 13, 2011 @ 10:22 am | delete
- thanks- I like looking at it myself- calming.
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