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Have you visited Giverny, P.E.?
Yes I have visited the hamlet, during a three-day road trip in August 2019!
Here is a photo from this wild ride if you feel like watching it, Gary
After visiting Chartres, I decided to spend the night in my car on a cark park near the museum. I programmed an alarm clock to be able to catch the landscape under the morning light and then come back to the museum. The photographs I took from the vicinity are enchanting!
Unfortunately, it was not very well-planned and thought ahead of me: at the time I began to return to the house, hell was let loose: thousands of visitors were already arriving, bus after packed bus. I decided to press on towards Rouen before being cornered by the infernal toing and froing.
It allowed me to visit Le Havre, Honfleur, Lisieux and Alençon under better conditions :)
Still, I have to visit it someday. The same goes for l'Orangeraie in Paris. In the short run, I would like give a shot to the works displayed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, as there is a temporary exhibition titled "Under the rain" :)
museedartsdenantesDOTnantesmetropoleDOTfr/en/expositions/sous-la-pluie-peindre-vivre-et-rever/
My late sister visited Giverny about 65 years ago. As she recalled, it was worth seeing but it wasn't as well-maintained as is now.
The Japanese link is interesting - I didn't think that Japanese artists of that era were fans of working in plein air!
@Jan-Maat: Were they? I must admit I didn't know whether that was the case or not, as I merely put the link to the website homepage for reference concerning the poster showing the mutual influence by way of to and fro between Japanese and French artists. I would be greatly interested in* the page discussing this topic however!
Thank you for this insightful take on Monet and for sharing such a marvellous selection of his paintings in the update, P-E (and again, you made me giggle with that well-found title :)).
When (rather by accident:)) wandering into the musée Boudin in Honfleur a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to learn about Eugène Boudin as Monet's mentor, showing him the way to plein air painting. I also enjoyed reading the graphic bio Monet: Nomade de la lumière (Contre/Champ) - he also featured in a recent Flemish graphic novel (Soldaat-hovenier: Een liefde tussen hemel en hel - a highlight of last reading year :). Maybe growing older makes me more and more relate to his water lily obsession - gladly drowning into those greens and blues.
Hehe, happy to be of help! ;-) The author of this little book gives Eugène Boudin his due too, remarking that he was called the "king of the skies" in his day!
Thank you so much for the book recommendations, I feel like reading more on the artist, feeling more and more drawn towards painting in general! I would like to pay a visit to the local museum to begin with but recent unforeseen events might make it more difficult for me than I first thought... If no extra unwished-for event happen, I am confident I can still visit it this week. Fingers crossed! Thanks again for the warm reaction and generous advice! :)
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Yes I have visited the hamlet, during a three-day road trip in August 2019! Here is a photo from this wild ride if you feel like watching it, Gary
After visiting Chartres, I decided to spend the night in my car on a cark park near the museum. I programmed an alarm clock to be able to catch the landscape under the morning light and then come back to the museum. The photographs I took from the vicinity are enchanting!
Unfortunately, it was not very well-planned and thought ahead of me: at the time I began to return to the house, hell was let loose: thousands of visitors were already arriving, bus after packed bus. I decided to press on towards Rouen before being cornered by the infernal toing and froing.
It allowed me to visit Le Havre, Honfleur, Lisieux and Alençon under better conditions :)
Still, I have to visit it someday. The same goes for l'Orangeraie in Paris. In the short run, I would like give a shot to the works displayed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, as there is a temporary exhibition titled "Under the rain" :)
museedartsdenantesDOTnantesmetropoleDOTfr/en/expositions/sous-la-pluie-peindre-vivre-et-rever/
My late sister visited Giverny about 65 years ago. As she recalled, it was worth seeing but it wasn't as well-maintained as is now.
The Japanese link is interesting - I didn't think that Japanese artists of that era were fans of working in plein air!
@Jan-Maat: Were they? I must admit I didn't know whether that was the case or not, as I merely put the link to the website homepage for reference concerning the poster showing the mutual influence by way of to and fro between Japanese and French artists. I would be greatly interested in* the page discussing this topic however!
Thank you for this insightful take on Monet and for sharing such a marvellous selection of his paintings in the update, P-E (and again, you made me giggle with that well-found title :)). When (rather by accident:)) wandering into the musée Boudin in Honfleur a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to learn about Eugène Boudin as Monet's mentor, showing him the way to plein air painting. I also enjoyed reading the graphic bio Monet: Nomade de la lumière (Contre/Champ) - he also featured in a recent Flemish graphic novel (Soldaat-hovenier: Een liefde tussen hemel en hel - a highlight of last reading year :). Maybe growing older makes me more and more relate to his water lily obsession - gladly drowning into those greens and blues.
Hehe, happy to be of help! ;-) The author of this little book gives Eugène Boudin his due too, remarking that he was called the "king of the skies" in his day! Thank you so much for the book recommendations, I feel like reading more on the artist, feeling more and more drawn towards painting in general! I would like to pay a visit to the local museum to begin with but recent unforeseen events might make it more difficult for me than I first thought... If no extra unwished-for event happen, I am confident I can still visit it this week. Fingers crossed! Thanks again for the warm reaction and generous advice! :)
