Showing posts with label Claude Monet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claude Monet. Show all posts

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Return! and Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) II

                                                         
Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois
1867

Well, hello there readers. It's been a long while since my last update. And I suppose, for those who may be interested, I should explain my extended posting slumber.

To pick up from my previous post, I had begun a new job and moved within New York City, which took up a significant amount of my free time; but then, just a couple of months later, I moved a second time: to Paris. Now, even to this minute, I'm not completely certain why I made that cross-Atlantic move, but, nevertheless, here I am. And here I've spent all this time becoming acclimated to my new home. 

Having achieved some level of comfort in France, I want to attempt to reanimate this site, though I can't promise that it will be very daily in the next, few weeks, as the engine of my habitude has to warm up. 

So, introductions aside, let's late-start this year with my favorite French painter, Claude Monet. 

A Corner of the Apartment
1875

At the Parc Monceau
1878

Bed of Chrysanthemums
1897

The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest
1865

Self-Portrait
1917

Friday, December 3, 2010

Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)

                                                                                  
Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog 
1904

Claude Monet, having just been provided glasses by an oculist and realizing their effect on his sight, threw them violently away, declaring, "If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"

Monet is my favorite painter of the Impressionist movement. Yet, the little story above (which seems to be true, but certainly has an apocryphal flavor) raises the interesting question of whether novel art is still just as brilliant, if that novelty is created and maintained through a natural mishap, such as Monet's severe astigmatism. What do you think?

The Red Boats, Argenteuil
1872

The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival Of A Train 
1877

The Shoot
1876


The Japanese Bridge
1918-1924