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

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
The canvas is interesting for an unusual perspective and the fact that there is no central point in the composition. This work of Monet is significantly different from those that
Monet painted this canvas in the summer of 1866 or 1867, while he was in Saint-Adres, a village near Le Havre, where he spent his youth. The picture, with captivatingly
In London, Monet meets Dobigny and Pissarro, with whom he is working on views of the Thames and the fogs of Hyde Park. For the effects of fog it was
Not far from Rouen is the coast of Normandy in a small town – Etretat, where the coastal cliffs are striking in their beauty. Once it was a small fishing
The provincial northern corner of France on the banks of the Seine came to the attention of the impressionist Claude Monet in 1885. Unlike traditional warm summer pictures, this one
The writing of the painting “Tulips of Holland” was completed by Claude Monet in 1872, some time after his visit to Holland, which struck him with the beauty of its