Claude Monet - Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867 in high definition, painting analysis

Claude Monet - Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC:
Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was there that he painted this buoyant, sunlit scene of contemporary leisure, enlisting his father (shown seated in a panama hat) and other relatives as models. By adopting an elevated viewpoint and painting the terrace, sea, and sky as three distinct bands of high-keyed color, Monet emphasized the flat surface of the canvas. His approach—daring for its time—reflects his admiration for Japanese prints. Twelve years after it was made, Monet exhibited the picture at the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879 as Jardin à Sainte-Adresse.

Claude Monet - Grainstack, Impression in Pinks and Blues 1891
It is difficult to imagine a more iconic Impressionist masterpiece than
the artwork, Monet's 'Grainstack' (Meule) 1891, possibly the most
vibrantly colorful of all the painter's slightly more than thirty variations
on this motif that revolutionized modern art. Monet painted six of his
grainstacks ("meule" in French) compositions already in 1888, and
then fully realized his obsession with the subject starting in the
autumn of 1890. - ArtsViewer.com

Vincent van Gogh - Bedroom in Arles 1888, painting analysis: Van
Gogh started the first version during mid October 1888 while staying in
Arles, and explained his aims and means to his brother Theo: This time
it simply reproduces my bedroom; but colour must be abundant in this
part, its simplification adding a rank of grandee to the style applied to the
objects, getting to suggest a certain rest or dream. - artsvanGogh.com

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Claude Monet 1840-1926