La Nature n’Est pas un Décor: De Monet aux Artistes Contemporains

Every year, when the weather turns fine, I take a trip to Yerres, a short train ride from Paris, to see two reliably fine exhibitions and revel in the beauty of the English-style park graced with the handsome former home […]

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Beyond Van Gogh Expands With Beyond Monet for Nanaimo Summer Run One ticket now includes both artist experiences at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, with existing ticket holders automatically upgraded Claude Monet is joining Vincent van Gogh in Nanaimo this summer, turning the previously announced Beyond Van Gogh exhibition into a two-artist experience at the Vancouver Island Conference…

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Zeitreise am Bahnhof Saint-Lazare

​Du stehst hier vor dem Gare Saint-Lazare, einem der ältesten und wichtigsten Bahnhöfe der Stadt. Dieses prächtige Gebäude ist ein echtes Herzstück von Paris, weil es schon seit fast 200 Jahren die Menschen aus dem Norden in die Hauptstadt bringt. Sogar der berühmte Maler Claude Monet war von der dampfigen Atmosphäre hier so gefesselt, dass […]

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Monet, Through The Iris

Claude Monet’s painting _The Path through the Irises_ is hard to ignore. First of all, there’s the sheer size of it—the canvas stretches six and a half feet high and over five feet across. _The Path through the Irises_ hangs center stage in its gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and if you have the time to linger, as I did on a recent Monday afternoon, you’ll notice the almost…

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Exhibition at de Young Features Claude Monet’s Work Inspired by Venice

France’s Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of Impressionism and the movement’s most prolific painter, reluctantly visited Venice, Italy, in October of 1908. At the time, he had grown disenchanted with the way his “Water Lilies” paintings were progressing. His dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, rejected the work, leading Monet to cancel the show at the Paris gallery and to destroy many of the paintings…

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Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet

As part of his show called Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis, currently on display in LA, Takashi Murakami painted his own version of Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son. The painting is paired with Murakami’s copies of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) that influenced the work of Monet and other abstract & impressionist artists.

Here Murakami…

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