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Giverny - nature revisited

The Nympheas, the American colony & 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 and particularly on his garden and the pond he created to paint "The Waterlilies". That series, a work of epic environmentalism for which Western art has no equivalent, took up the last 20 years of his life (1840-1926). 

 

Discovering the colony of American artists that grew up around the master, and the estate and fountains of a celebrated sculptor, can be part of this day as well. 

 

•Art-history excursion
  • On Monet, an example of our conversation

 

 

 

Most flowers only bend with the wind. Waterlillies move mysteriously with the current.

 

 

His garden is a perfect universe, indifferent to human worries. All is radiant and time seems suspended.


 

 

  • Déjeuner - in what was once the cantine of American artists, who were among the first to appreciate Impressionism

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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... nd in the late sculptor's estate near Giverny, where we may exceptionally be received.

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Pond / Bill Dudley; Sculptor's garden / supplied by the artist

 

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