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Giverny – Monet's epic environmentalism

"The Waterlillies", American deciples & a sculptor's private estate

"I started to know what I wanted when I was 40, began to understand it when I was 50 and can begin to paint it when I am 60."

- Monet

 

Our excursion to Monet's home concentrates on his life in the village, on his garden and the pond that he created to paint "The Waterlilies". That series, a work of epic environmentalism for which Western art has no equivalent, absorbed the last 20 years of his life (1840-1926). 

 

Encountering the patriach's private life, at which the cemetery hints, helps us become acquainted with him. Discovering the American artists' colony that grew up around the master, and the Museum of Impressionisms (please note the plural), offspring of their presence, are additions of interest.

 

The fountains and estate of a celebrated contemporary sculptor can be part of this day as well. 

 
  • "The Waterlillies"

 

 

Pond
One painting

     Monet's universe is indifferent to human worries. All is radiant and there is no time.


 

 

  • Suggested "déjeuner " – in what was once the cantine of American artists, who were among the first to understand Impressionism's importance

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  •  Private continuation

 

 

Estate entrance
Palais-Royal fountains

Fountains move almost  imperceptibly, as life can They appear in the Guggenheim, in Seoul... and in the late sculptor's estate near Giverny, where we may exceptionally be received.

       

       

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          •Remember the entry fee to Monet'd estate and to the Museum of des Impressionisms, and lunch. We recommend the restaurant that replaces the cantine where American artists had their meals... often in exchange for paintings, whose copies line its walls.  

           

           

           

          Credits: Pond / Bill Dudley; Sculptor's garden / supplied by the artist; modern sculpture / Claude Abron

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