The Artist's Garden at Giverny, Monet
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| Author: | Claude Monet |
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| Original Title: | Le jardin de l'artiste à Giverny |
| Type: | Painting |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1900 |
The artist did not like the formal nature of the main path leading to the door of his house in Giverny. Instead of the trees that were on the walkway, Monet scattered flowers of all kinds in colors: pink, fuchsia, green, yellow, red, and white.
The artist's wife protested about him having removed the trees from the garden, but Monet insisted that they blocked the light from his flowers.
When the lilacs bloomed, Monet painted them with short and thick strokes of concentrated color. In this work, the floating effect of a layer of flowers is evident, which is distributed between sunny and shaded areas.
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Why is this painting famous?
The Artist’s Garden at Giverny by Claude Monet became famous as one of the purest expressions of mature Impressionism. In it, Monet depicts his own garden as an explosion of color and movement, where the central perspective of a path dissolves among irises, roses, and masses of vegetation. The quick, fragmented brushwork captures the vibration of light on the flowers, while the composition conveys the sensation of being immersed in an intimate, living paradise. More than a landscape, it is a visual diary of his bond with nature, turned into a work of art. Discover more famous paintingsARTIST DATA
Claude Monet
| Full Name: | Oscar-Claude Monet. |
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| Birth: | 1840, Paris, France. |
| Death: | 1926, Giverny, France. |
| Style: | Impressionism. |
A leader of the Impressionist art movement, Monet’s paintings are recognized as the purest examples of this style. His importance is reflected in the price achieved by his oil painting "Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas," sold in London in 2008 for 40.9 million pounds sterling.
Monet laid the foundations of modern painting. His brush did not aim to tell a story or provide a moral lesson to the viewer, but rather placed impressions on the canvas based on sensations experienced by the eye. The pointillist brushstrokes, which he painted with the mastery of a true artist, are the origin of modern pictorial art.
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