Search results for: “Claude Monet”
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The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, Claude Monet
I just love this particular painting by Monet, even though it is in some ways uncharacteristic of the work for which he is best known. In this early painting, done when he and several other early Impressionist painters had come to join their Barbizon compatriots in painting “en plein air” in the forest of Fontainebleu…
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Simultaneous contrast in Monet’s Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn), Claude Monet; oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 40 in. (66 x 28 cm); in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which offers both zoomable and downloadable images on their site. Here’s a question for you: in this painting by Monet — one of several in…
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Values in Monet’s Impression, Sunrise
Originally exhibited in the April 1874 exhibit of the Societe’ Anonyme des Artistes, Peintires, Sculpters, Graveurs, Etc. (Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.), now referred to as the First Impressionist Exhibition, this painting by Claude Monet appeared with the title: Impression, Sunrise. The name was picked up by unsympathetic critics and used derisively to…
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Monet’s Gare Saint-Lazare series
Claude Monet painted several series of paintings on particular subjects — like the haystack series, poplars, water lilies and the facade of the Rouen Cathedral — revisiting the same subject multiple times in different lighting and atmospheric conditions. The first of these series was of the Gare Saint-Lazare, one the large railway terminals in Paris.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Springtime
Springtime, Claude Monet Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikipedia; original is in the Walters Art Museum. In this painting by Monet of his first wife and frequent model, Camille Doncieux, we can see the painter’s fascination with light and color. The foliage is gesturally indicated, with mere…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Parc Monceau
The Parc Monceau, Claude Monet In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image on their page. This painting, one of several painted in an urban park in the heart of Paris, is one of my favorites from Monet’s period of painting in his signature style — what might…