Giverny
Picture of Giverny - Monet's Garden
Giverny Monet House
Impressionist school in Girverny :
Claude Monet, the painter who founded the Impressionist school lived in
Giverny for 43 years.
His house and his garden, the village of Giverny and its surroundings, were
his subject matter and they still attract half a million visitors each year
from all over the world, as well as painters, charmed by the unique light of
the Seine Valley. And this little spot in Normandy has much more to offer.
Monet House in Giverny :
With its pink render on the outside, the house where the leader of the Impressionist school lived from 1883 until 1926 has now regained the colourful interior and intimate charm of those bygone days. Several of its rooms are now devoted to the artist's precious collection of Japanese prints. Just a few steps from the house is the restored Waterlily Studio, now home to the Monet Foundation shop. Restored to their original state, the gardens now offer the visitor that "painting made from Nature itself" that Monet's contemporaries regarded as one of his masterpieces. The house and studios look out on to the geometrically designed Clos Normand, whose stunning flowerbeds are surrounded by arbours of climbing plants. Further down, a man-made, willow-shaded branch of the river Epte feeds the Water Garden, with its celebrated Japanese Bridge and its wisteria, azaleas and pond. Once again this spot has become that meeting of sky and water out of which emerged the pictorial world of the waterlilies.
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The Japanese prints
Given that every Impressionist had his collection of Japanese prints, just what lay behind Monet's specific choices? It would be a mistake to see him as caught up in the fad for things Japanese or initiating himself into Japanese culture: it was Octave Mirbeau, in his preface to the catalogue for the Venice World Fair, who said that what the artist was looking for was "that exquisite freezing of visual relationships to be found in Japanese prints".
Impressionist paintings at Orsay Museum
See the galleries dedicated to the impressionists before 1870. Monet (Femmes
au jardin, Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, imitated from fragments of "Le Dejeuner sur
l'Herbe" by Manet), Pissarro (Geleé Blanche) and Sisley (Passerelle
d’Argenteuil), Boudin ( Plage a Trouville), Jongkind (La Seine et Notre-Dame
à Paris).
Salle Manet with “Emile Zola”, “Olympia”, “Le Balcon” and “Le Fifre”.
Orsay Museum guided tour
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