Monet's Years at Giverny - Hardcover

Keller, Horst

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3770170903 ISBN 13: 9783770170906

Publisher: DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co, 2002

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date :2002-5-1 Pages: 160 Publisher: Oversea Publishing House Claude Monet (1840-1926). considered by many to be the most important ofthe French Impressionists. spent over 40 years of his life at his house in Giverny . The world-famous paintings of water lilies were created there. as well as other masterpieces of this productive period. The superb images of paintings created in this garden as well as historic photographs give a remarkable insight into Monets unique creative power. This book is devoted to Claude Monet the landscape painter. who not only created his garden but preserved it for posterity in his atmospheric paintings: through them. a garden becomes a work of art Contents:. A painters garden restored to lifeMonet discovers Giverny The dream landscape The village Le Pressoir Two families The house The garden Monets appearance Making plans The villag...

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The most important Impressionist landscape paintings by Monet in a single volume! Giverny, a small country town between Paris and Rouen, became the home of Monet in 1883. Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a very significant artist and one of the founders of French Impressionism. He spent over 40 years of his life as a painter in Giverny, in a spacious country house set in a large garden that he designed and created down the smallest detail. Here he lived within the circle of his large family as he sought to capture and represent the phenomenon of changing light in his art. Monet changed from the studio to the open-air painter, succeeding masterfully in the representation of natural phenomena. This luxuriant paradise of flowers and trees inspired Monet's celebrated paintings of water lilies, which hang in many of the major museums in the world. These recorded the water garden with its magical reflections, its floating flowers and its weeping willow, embellished with a Japanese bridge. Giverny is a painter's garden of incomparable beauty. This book is devoted to Monet the landscape artist and the paintings that he created in the garden and its surroundings. They are among the most beautiful and mature works of 19th-century French painting. The book evokes an amazing world in which harmony with nature has produced some remarkable paintings: nature has become art.

About this edition

• Publisher: DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3770170903
• ISBN 13: 9783770170906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160