Bold experiments with light are the main expressive means used by Claude Monet in his works. The variability of shadows and the play of light has always attracted the artist

These poplars grew on the banks of the River Ept near the house of Monet in Giverny, and in the summer of 1891 the artist began to paint them at

The work of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Study of Olive Trees” demonstrates the author’s vehement “dislike” for the play of light and shadow. As a rule, chiaroscuro rarely visited Gogh’s paintings,

Claude Monet – a bright representative of French impressionism. The style of impressionism involves the transfer in the picture of a certain moment. Pictures of such a plan are written

For a long time, the small French city of Etretat, which attracts tourists, nature lovers and artists with its incredible mountain cliffs and cliffs growing from the English Channel, is

Claude Monet wrote a lot and each time his work became the biographical imprints of his many journeys, crossings and open-airs on the coast of the rivers of the Seine,

It is rightly considered that the “most beautiful cliffs of France” are located in the resort town of Etretat in Normandy. Back in 1847, his small hotels and guesthouses invited

Le Havre is the birthplace of Claude Monet, where the artist spent his entire childhood, and from 1860 left this place and never returned there, perhaps, only to visit relatives

In London, the artist was admired by the blue of the fogs that covered Westminster Abbey and the Thames. It is known that he, with a sketchbook in his hands,

Honfleur is a beautiful city, attracting artists with its magnificence. A closed harbor surrounded by houses where bright facades alternate with dark ones, sailboats moored to the shore – all

Trouville is a seaside resort in Normandy. It pleases the eyes of the wealthy tourists with the exquisite architecture of their villas of the early 20th century. Galleries and antique

The city of Rouen is located on the banks of the Seine, in addition, through it flow its tributaries, in particular the river Obett, Robec and Caye. Rouen was supposedly

The founder of French impressionism, Claude Monet, his friend and colleague, whose surname differed by just one letter, Edouard Manet, shrewdly and precisely called “Raphael of the water.” Indeed, the

Claude to Giverny will leave forever And live almost half a century in happiness. He will remember violets sometimes… Here everything is alive – the house and the garden. In

The resort town of Antibes is located on the Cape of Angels Bay, between Nice and Cannes. Antibes-Juan-les-Pins is the longest coastal strip in France. Along the entire coast, coves

Monet’s picture is best viewed at some distance. The lilac color fills all its space, but the canvas cannot be called monotonous – the river and the sky are lighter

Despite the fact that the French climate can be considered mild and the winter is relatively mild there, it still bothers with dampness and wetness. The heart yearns for spring,

In 1865, the famous French artist Claude Monet created one of his most famous works, Breakfast on the Grass. He is one of the founders of impressionism, since it was

The whole history of French impressionism – from its inception to its heyday and gradual extinction – fits into the long creative biography of Claude Monet. Knightly devotion to this

“Parliament in London” is the clearest example of the main principle of painting Monet – he does not recognize the objective reality, rejects the immutability of any qualities of objects,

After the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Monet went to England, where he became acquainted with the works of John Constable and William Turner. In the spring of