Giverny - a great garden
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Learn about Monet's garden at Giverny
Giverny is a very famous garden in France, created and painted by Claude Monet. It's actually two gardens in one - the Clos Normand (flower garden) and the Water Garden where he painted the waterlilies and the Japanese bridge.
When I visited Giverny for the first time I was immediately struck by the fact that Monet did not only create art with oils. His garden was also an artistic creation and is quite simply a living picture created out of nature. It's a sublime example of an artist selecting and creating the objects and their arrangements as part of the 'set-up' for his painting.
Image: Claud Monet - The Waterlily Pond 1899, National Gallery (source Wikipedia)
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- A brief overview of Monet's house and garden at Giverny
- Location of Giverny
- Monet's Garden at Giverny
- CLOS NORMAND
- Link List
- VIDEO: Monet's Flower Garden and House
- THE WATER GARDEN
- Foundation Claude Monet: the Gardens
- VIDEO: A circuit of the Water Garden
- VISIT GIVERNY
- Giverny - practical details for visits
- Making A Mark - posts about Monet and Giverny
- BOOKS: About Monet's garden at Giverny
- Blogging about Giverny
- Photographs of Giverny
- PHOTOS of the Clos Normand at Giverny
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- Gardens in Art - including Giverny
- Claude Monet and his art
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A brief overview of Monet's house and garden at Giverny
from the Wikipedia article
Claude Monet noticed the village of Giverny while looking out the window of a train he was riding. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house and the area surrounding it. In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint. Some of his most famous paintings, such as his water lily and Japanese bridge paintings, were of his garden in Giverny. Monet lived in Giverny from 1883 until his death in 1926. He and many members of his family are interred in the village cemetery.
Monet's house and gardens were opened to public visit in 1980, following restoration work. They have become a popular tourist attraction (the Fondation Claude Monet), particularly in the summer when the flowers are in bloom.
Location of Giverny
Monet's Garden at Giverny
The Clos Normand is the garden next to the house and is the flower garden. It is mainly given over to serried ranks of flower beds either side of a structure of straight paths which intersect at right angles. The flowers are planted in such a way as to provide a range of complementary colours which, in turn, creates a huge impact
The Water Garden is now reached via a tunnel under the road which separate the two gardens. In Monet's day he would have strode out of his front door, down the steps along the Grand Allee (the main pathway) - which is now carpeted with nasturtiums in the summer - through the double gates at the end, across the road and through the gate into the water garden. The lake in the garden was created artificially by diverting the stream. This is where Monet grew and painted his waterlilies and created a series of very many paintings. It's also where you can find the Japanese bridge which is the subject of a number of paintings.
- Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
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- Giverny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Giverny From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
- Famous gardens of impressionist painter Claude Monet in Giverny, house, water garden and flower garden. Visitor information.
- Giverny : Claude Monet's garden - flower list
- List of plants and flowers of Claude Monet's garden
- Rick Steves' Europe: Monet's Giverny Gardens
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- Monet's gardens at Giverny - The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts
- Monet spent the rest of his life painting his garden, titling the water lily paintings with their scientific name, Les Nymphéas
CLOS NORMAND
This is the flower garden
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VIDEO: Monet's Flower Garden and House
featuring the Grand Allee carpeted with nasturtiums
THE WATER GARDEN
Home to Monet's waterlilies and the Japanese Bridge
Foundation Claude Monet: the Gardens
- Foundation Claude Monet: The Clos Normand
- The Clos Normand was designed in the French style, directly in front of the house and with its pathways intersecting at right angles; and despite the profusion, variety and sheer brightness of the colours from one season to the next, order remains the keynote.
- Foundation Claude Monet: The Water Garden
- Unlike the Clos Normand, the Water Garden is asymmetrical, with an exotic, Japanese feel to it - a place for musing and dreaming in harmony with the oriental tradition of the philosophical contemplation of nature.
Its contribution to Claude Monet's oeuvre was a vital one. He came here repeatedly throughout his life, letting his imagination rove amid the complex interplay of water and light. Here he painted his first Waterlilies series, those marvellous canvases from which, in the closing period of his life, he was to distil the marvellous "Decorations" that rounded off the work of a entire lifetime - Foundation Claude Monet: The Seasons
- The Seasons
VIDEO: A circuit of the Water Garden
see the garden as if you were walking round yourself
Nympheas in Monet's water garden in Giverny
VISIT GIVERNY
Giverny - practical details for visits
- Foundation Claude Monet: Map of the house, gardens and car park
- Map of the house, gardens and car park
- Foundation Claude Monet: address
- FONDATION CLAUDE MONET
84, rue Claude Monet
27620 - Giverny - FRANCE
Tel : 02 32 51 28 21 Fax : 02 32 51 54 18
contact email in link - Foundation Claude Monet: how to get to Giverny
- Rail, bus, taxi and a map of the locality
- Foundation Claude Monet: Opening Hours
- OPENING HOURS
Open from 1st April to 1st November.
Open daily, from 9.30 AM to 6.00 PM.
Closed exceptionally on monday 27th April 2009.
Booking is not possible for individual visitors. Only for groups of 20 people or more. - Foundation Claude Monet: Claude Monet
- Narrative about Monet's life at Giverny
- The Foundation Claude MONET - the garden in different seasons
- The garden along the seasons - Spring; Summer; Autumn and Winter
- The Foundation Claude MONET - FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
- FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
- Giverny Impression - map and details of B&B
- B and B in Giverny area - map of locations and details about places offering bed and breakfast accommodation.
- Giverny Impression - Hotel Guide
- Hotels in the Giverney area - map and details of hotels
- Giverny Impression - Restaurants
- Restaurants in Giverny area - map and details of restaurants
Making A Mark - posts about Monet and Giverny
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art continues - with Monet
- Now just in case anybody doesn't know much about Monet and gardens, I thought I'd start with some links to biographical information about the man himself and then some to information about his garden at Giverny. Have a peek at the gardens and you'll see a number of the reasons why I'm a fan.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and the flower garden at Giverny
- When I visited Giverny for the first time I was immediately struck by the fact that Monet did not only create art with oils. His garden was also an artistic creation and is quite simply a living picture created out of nature. It's a sublime example of an artist selecting and creating the objects and their arrangements as part of the 'set-up' for his painting.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet and the water garden at Giverny
- Of all the images associated with Monet, the water lilies and the Japanese bridge over the pool in the water garden at Giverny are perhaps the most well known. For more than 25 years, he painted them again and again. As a result there are many versions in museums and art galleries around the world.
- Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet's final Nympheas
- This post is about the final and probably some of the most famous of Monet's paintings - the Grand Decorations which are now housed in the Orangerie Museum in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. They had a long birth........His enthusiasm for work was generated by the notion of developing an idea he'd initially had nearly 20 years earlier. His aim was to produce paintings of the pond and the water lilies to fit a circular room so that they immerse the viewer of his paintings in the sensation of the pond. The notion was that the experience of the still water and the lilies would both soothe and delight at the same time. He saw the room as a refuge where cares would ebb away. It had worked for him and could work for others.
BOOKS: About Monet's garden at Giverny
Blogging about Giverny
- Giverny Monet Garden
- Claude Monet house and garden in Giverny France
By Ariane, Guide Interpreter, Giverny France
Photographs of Giverny
- Derek Fell's Searchable Garden Stock Photography Library, High Quality Digital Horticultural Images
- Derek Fell's photographs of Monet's Garden : [view categories]
- Giverny Claude Monet's garden in Autumn Photo
- Photos by Anne Chrysoteme of Claude Monet's garden in Fall. The water garden in Giverny and the water lilies.
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Lindrus
Feb 7, 2012 @ 6:42 am | delete
- Beautiful photos! Thanks for a nice lens!
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cdevries
Aug 24, 2011 @ 1:31 pm | delete
- A lovely break just to look at this garden. Thanks.
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ChrisDay
Jan 2, 2011 @ 2:32 pm | delete
- A visit to Giverny is a 'must' for any Monet lover. Thanks for the memories!
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Nenkai
Dec 18, 2010 @ 8:17 pm | delete
- It blows my mind that this garden still resembles Monet's extraordinary and soothing paintings!
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JaguarJulie
Nov 29, 2010 @ 3:51 pm | delete
- Such a beautifully lovely place!
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LisaAuch
Sep 29, 2010 @ 2:42 am | delete
- No wonder his painting hold a special something, having this garden and all its beauty for inspiration. What a beautiful article, thankyou.
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makingamark
Mar 11, 2010 @ 5:29 am | delete
- Sorry - actually you need to go to my other site Claude Monet - Resources for Art Lovers http://www.squidoo.com/claude_monet for the links about his art.
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makingamark
Mar 11, 2010 @ 5:27 am | delete
- Hi Peeerson (what a lot of 'e's!) Monet painted what he saw. The bridge is in the water garden he created - which he was very proud of. The bridge also reminded Monet of the bridges in the Japanese prints which he liked so much. You can read lots of material about all of this in the above links to other sites - I suggest you get reading!
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Peeerson.
Mar 11, 2010 @ 5:17 am | delete
- Do you know what monets inspiration for painting bridge over a pool of water lilies is?
I need to know for a school project :)
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makingamark
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- Thanks Kim - I've decided that this lens might fare better in with the other gardens!
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KimGiancaterino Feb 18, 2009 @ 10:23 pm | delete
- Friends of mine visited Giverny last year and loved it. No wonder... it looks beautiful. Welcome to All Things Travel.
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Water lilies, ponds, a Japanese footbridge, and blankets of glorious flowers: nothing evokes Claude Monet's Impressionist paintings quite like these images from his garden at Giverny in Northern France. After moving to Giverny in 1883, Monet (1840-1926) discovered a profound source of artistic renewal in his garden, a motif he would paint for the rest of his life.
Published to accompany the opening of the new Mus%uFFFDe des Impressionnismes in Giverny, this gloriously illustrated book celebrates these beloved works and the landscape that inspired them. Monet's Garden in Giverny showcases Monet's paintings of his garden side by side with photographs of the artist in the garden. With thirty paintings, thirty photographs, numerous archival documents, a detailed chronology, and commentary by leading specialists in the field, this gorgeous volume is an essential addition to any art lover's library.
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