Monet believed his garden was his "most beautiful work of art", and he certainly put the effort in to create his world-famous ...
Giverny, France – Claude Monet's Gardens are both intimately familiar and overwhelming in their spectacle. The French impressionist master lived in Giverny, France, for half his life, from 1883 to his ...
"Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat....I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat - the beauty of the light in which they exist." Claude Monet, 1895 Claude ...
PARIS — Beloved by Americans, Impressionist master Claude Monet has long been a victim of a sort of Gallic snobbishness in his native France. A new exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand ...
As numerous art historians have stated, Monet’s late Giverny paintings anticipate the large-scale gestural paintings of postwar American Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, ...
We often hear about how the Impressionists’ break with tradition paved the way for Modern art. But since the works of each movement tend to be siphoned off into separate galleries, we rarely get a ...
PARIS — Daylight is again streaming onto Claude Monet’s celebrated waterlilies in a Paris museum where eight of the color-drenched canvases are returning to public view. The Orangerie Museum reopens ...
PARIS—At the French capital’s Musée Rodin, a vestige of a decades-long friendship between two of France’s most legendary artists is easy to miss. On the building’s second floor, Belle-Île by Claude ...
PARIS (AP) — An environmental activist was detained Saturday after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum. It was the latest of several actions by protesters with the ...