query: what inspired monet?

title: Claude Monet

text: Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer, and supported Monet's desire for a career in art. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy around 1856 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.

title: Monet Hurst-Mendoza

text: form an intense bond and make a pact to have a baby. A dark twist on the “boy-meets-girl” and inspired by the unfolding true story of Ronnell Wilson and Nancy Gonzalez, Blind Crest investigates our corrupt and inherently racist judicial system, compelling us to ask, "what is the value of a Black life in America, and at what cost are we willing to fight for it?" Monet Hurst-Mendoza Monet Hurst-Mendoza is a New York based playwright, director, and theatre producer from Los Angeles. Her plays predominantly feature people of color, and often deal with heavier subject matters—such as morality, exploitation,

title: Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet)

text: Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet) Jean Monet (August 8, 1867 – February 10, 1914) was the eldest son of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Monet and the brother of Michel Monet. He was the subject of several paintings by his father and married his step-sister, Blanche Hoschedé. Jean Monet was born to Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet on August 8, 1867. During that summer Claude Monet was staying at his father's house in Sainte-Adresse, a suburb of Le Havre. Monet went to Paris for the birth of Jean and returned to Sainte-Adresse on the 12th of

title: Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet)

text: Claude Monet kept the painting, and never exhibited it, throughout his life. He trained to be a chemist in Switzerland. Monet married Blanche Hoschedé in 1897. They lived in Rouen, where Jean worked for his uncle Léon Monet as a chemist, and Beaumont-le-Roger until 1913. The couple visited Giverny on weekends. Jean suffered an illness for a period of time and died on February 10, 1914. He is buried at the Giverny Church Cemetery, Giverny. His wife Blanche, father, and brother Michel are also buried at the cemetery. Paintings by Claude Monet of his son: Jean Monet (son of Claude

title: Claude Monet

text: loss which will forever efface her features. In fact there can be very few death-bed paintings which have been so intensely felt or subjectively expressive." After several difficult months following the death of Camille, Monet began to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. These began to evolve into series of pictures in which he documented the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of

title: Claude Monet

text: approaches to art, painting the effects of light "en plein air" with broken colour and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. In January 1865 Monet was working on a version of "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", aiming to present it for hanging at the Salon, which had rejected Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" two years earlier. Monet's painting was very large and could not be completed in time. (It was later cut up, with parts now in different galleries.) Monet submitted instead a painting of "Camille" or "The Woman in the Green Dress" ("La femme à

title: Claude Monet

text: Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind. On 28 January 1857, his mother died. At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed, childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters, including Édouard Manet and others who would become friends and fellow Impressionists. After drawing

title: Akim Monet

text: Paris. Monet's work is on public display at the Deutsche Bank Collection in New York. Akim Monet also writes about art (see Paula Cooper Gallery - New York and Barbara Gladstone Gallery - New York). “It was in India, in 1992, that Akim Monet began his photographic investigation of historical treasures. Absorbing the particulars of the region, he was deeply affected by the power of the ancient temples and monuments that are still a vital part of daily life there. He used photography as a way of processing what he was feeling. Having accumulated a trove of images, he found

title: Rouen Cathedral (Monet series)

text: Rouen Cathedral (Monet series) The Rouen Cathedral series was painted in the 1890s by French impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings in the series each capture the façade of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year, and reflect changes in its appearance under different lighting conditions. The "Rouen Cathedral" paintings, more than thirty in all, were made in 1892 and 1893 in Rouen, Normandy, then reworked in Monet’s studio in 1894. Monet rented spaces in Rouen across the street from the cathedral as his temporary studio. In 1895 he selected what he considered to be the twenty

title: Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet)

text: the month. The first portrait that Monet made of his son was of the four-month-old "Jean Monet in His Cradle". Alongside Jean was a woman Julie Vellay, a companion of Camille Pissarro, rather than his mother. According to Mary Mathews Gedo, author of "Monet and his Muse: Camile Monet in the Artist's Life:" In 1868, after having left Paris to escape creditors and find more affordable housing, the three moved to Gloton, a small scenic village near Bennecourt. They were thrown out of the inn they were staying in for non-payment. Camille and Jean were able to stay with someone

title: Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

text: in the 1870s, and is signed "Monet 75" in the lower right corner. The painting was one of 18 works by Monet exhibited at the second Impressionist exhibition in April 1876, at the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel. Ten years later, Monet returned to a similar subject, painting a pair of scenes featuring his second wife's daughter Suzanne Monet in 1886 with a parasol in a meadow at Giverny; they are in the Musée d'Orsay. John Singer Sargent saw the painting at the exhibition in 1876 and was later inspired to create a similar painting, "Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury",

title: Claude Monet

text: the seasons. Monet's friend Ernest Hoschedé became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium. After the death of Camille Monet in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil, Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel. She took them to Paris to live alongside her own six children, Blanche (who married Jean Monet), Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. In the spring of 1880, Alice Hoschedé and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet at Vétheuil. In 1881, all of them moved to Poissy, which Monet hated. In April

title: Essential Monet

text: Essential Monet Essential Monet () is a book written by arts expert Vanessa Potts. It was published in 2003, by Bartagon Publishing of the United Kingdom. "Essential Monet" is a discussion book about the paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet. It is part of the "essential" book series, which also discusses such other artists as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and others. "Essential Monet"s introduction was written by Dr. Claire O'Mahony, who wrote a biography about the noted painter and described him as "in many senses, the quintessential impressionist painter". The book discusses hundreds of Monet paintings, his influences, and

title: Melissa Monet

text: and Alfred Hitchcock. Melissa Monet Melissa Monet (born July 16, 1964) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, writer and film director. Monet entered the adult film world in 1994 at the age of 30. Monet has also appeared in the porn-related documentaries "Rated X: A Journey Through Porn" and "Pornstar Pets". She has directed 19 hardcore titles and has directed softcore cable movies for Roger Corman's production company Click Productions. Monet was born in Staten Island, New York City. Monet cites John Leslie as one of her influences. She is also an avid fan of the work

title: Melissa Monet

text: Melissa Monet Melissa Monet (born July 16, 1964) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, writer and film director. Monet entered the adult film world in 1994 at the age of 30. Monet has also appeared in the porn-related documentaries "Rated X: A Journey Through Porn" and "Pornstar Pets". She has directed 19 hardcore titles and has directed softcore cable movies for Roger Corman's production company Click Productions. Monet was born in Staten Island, New York City. Monet cites John Leslie as one of her influences. She is also an avid fan of the work of Orson Welles

title: Daniella Monet

text: She was born Daniella Monet Zuvic in West Hills, California. Her father's family is from Chile, and has Croatian and Chilean ancestry. Her mother has Italian ancestry. Monet is a vegan and supports animal welfare causes. She posed for a PETA campaign that encourages students to refuse to dissect animals in the classroom. Monet also supported Ariana Grande's word to people to stop supporting SeaWorld after Grande saw "Blackfish". As part of PETA, Daniella Monet did an ad for them where she portrayed a mermaid when it came to telling people about humans consumption of fish. In December 2017, Monet

title: Essential Monet

text: the similarities and differences between some of his most important works of art. Essential Monet Essential Monet () is a book written by arts expert Vanessa Potts. It was published in 2003, by Bartagon Publishing of the United Kingdom. "Essential Monet" is a discussion book about the paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet. It is part of the "essential" book series, which also discusses such other artists as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and others. "Essential Monet"s introduction was written by Dr. Claire O'Mahony, who wrote a biography about the noted painter and described him as "in many senses, the

title: Michel Monet

text: Ernest Hoschedé, Michel's wife Gabrielle, and Claude's daughter-in-law Blanche. Michel Monet Michel Monet (17 March 1878 – 3 February 1966) was the son of Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Monet. Born on 17 March 1878, 26 rue d'Édimbourg, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, where the Monets had moved from Argenteuil, Michel Monet was the younger of Claude and Camille Monet's two sons. His mother's already failing health worsened after his birth and she died on 5 September 1879, probably of uterine cancer. Michel's elder brother, Jean, was born in 1867. Since 1877, year of Ernest Hoschedé's bankruptcy, Alice Hoschedé

title: Michel Monet

text: Monets. The two families moved from Paris to Vétheuil in August 1878 and after Camille's death in 1879, Monet, Alice and the eight children continued living together. In 1881, they moved to Poissy and in April 1883 to Giverny. Alice managed the household and supervised the education of the Monet and Hoschedé children. Michel Monet and his step-brother Jean-Pierre Hoschedé served in the French Army during World War I. Michel Monet married Gabrielle Bonaventure in 1927. The couple had no children. Gabrielle died 2 February 1964. When Claude Monet died in 1926, as his sole heir, Michel inherited the entire

title: Michel Monet

text: Michel Monet Michel Monet (17 March 1878 – 3 February 1966) was the son of Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Monet. Born on 17 March 1878, 26 rue d'Édimbourg, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, where the Monets had moved from Argenteuil, Michel Monet was the younger of Claude and Camille Monet's two sons. His mother's already failing health worsened after his birth and she died on 5 September 1879, probably of uterine cancer. Michel's elder brother, Jean, was born in 1867. Since 1877, year of Ernest Hoschedé's bankruptcy, Alice Hoschedé and her six children had been living with the

title: Akim Monet

text: In 2004 Deutsche Bank Collection in New York acquired three of Akim Monet's large-scale works. In 2011 Monet opened a Gallery in Berlin at Potsdamer Str. 81b. The first Exhibition "Fertility" ended by November 26, 2011. 1. Auction results: Akim Monet on artnet 2. Akim Monet, Galerie du XXE Siecle, Paris - press release on undo.net 3. Book Presentation of Akim Monet's The Space Between in Gstaad on Deutsche Bank art magazine Akim Monet Akim Monet (born February 25, 1968) is an American and Swiss photographer who lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. Ilfochrome print – by

title: Akim Monet

text: Akim Monet Akim Monet (born February 25, 1968) is an American and Swiss photographer who lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. Ilfochrome print – by Akim Monet Akim Monet was born in Geneva and studied comparative literature and art history at Cornell University, New York State. The subject of his thesis: Reading of Camus’ «L’Etranger» across the work of Yves Klein. Monet has been showing his work publicly since 2002. He has had several solo exhibitions of which “Passage to India” in New York and Mexico City, “Homage to Gaudi” in Geneva and Belgium, and “Pergamon” in

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: Over the years, Monet became more and more obsessed with color and light. When his wife was dying in September 1879, Monet painted her in "Camille Monet on Her Deathbed" (1879), noting the "blue, yellow, grey tones". Monet told his friend, French statesman Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), that he spent the time "focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face." Camille died from cancer at the age of 32. After her death, Monet largely ceased painting people, focusing instead on natural landscapes. Monet later returned to painting snow

title: Claude Monet

text: 1883, looking out the window of the little train between Vernon and Gasny, he discovered Giverny in Normandy. Monet, Alice Hoschedé and the children moved to Vernon, then to the house in Giverny, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life. Following the death of her estranged husband, Monet married Alice Hoschedé in 1892. Monet rented and eventually purchased a house and gardens in Giverny. At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented the home and from a local landowner. The house was situated near the

title: Michel Monet

text: in the restoration of Claude Monet's house and gardens, which had been left in a desolate state. In a bid to raise funds, he and his wife Florence appealed to American donors through the "Versailles Foundation-Giverny Inc." In 1966, Michel Monet had left to the Musée Marmottan Monet his own collection of his father's work, thus creating the world's largest collection of Monet paintings. Michel Monet is buried in Claude Monet's vault in the Giverny cemetery, which adjoins the village Sainte Radegonde church. In Claude Monet's vault are buried Claude, his second wife Alice, his son Jean, Alice's first husband

title: Dominique Monet

text: on February 6, 1923. He was buried in Saint-Jean. Dominique Monet Dominique Monet, QC (January 2, 1865 – February 6, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge. Born in St-Michel de Napierville, Canada East, the son of Dominique Monet, Monet was educated at L'Assomption College and received an LL.D. from Laval University in 1889. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1889 and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He practiced law in Saint-Rémi, Montreal and Saint-Jean. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Napierville in the 1891

title: Dominique Monet

text: Dominique Monet Dominique Monet, QC (January 2, 1865 – February 6, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge. Born in St-Michel de Napierville, Canada East, the son of Dominique Monet, Monet was educated at L'Assomption College and received an LL.D. from Laval University in 1889. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1889 and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He practiced law in Saint-Rémi, Montreal and Saint-Jean. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Napierville in the 1891 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the

title: Claude Monet

text: (Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) to exhibit their artworks independently. At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its lasting name. He was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet. "Impression, Sunrise" was painted in 1872, depicting a Le Havre port landscape. From the painting's title the art critic Louis Leroy, in his review, "L'Exposition des Impressionnistes," which appeared in "Le Charivari", coined the term "Impressionism". It was intended as disparagement but the Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves.

title: Akim Monet

text: of light stolen with his camera back to the object world. In a subtle dialogue among mediums, Monet approaches his three-dimensional subjects from a painterly sensibility and returns the traces of light stolen with his camera back to the object world." 2004 Domus Adriani The series Domvs Adriani was captured in 2004 at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has inspired many artists including Italian master engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The complex of over 30 buildings was created as a retreat from Rome for Emperor Hadrian early in the 2nd century AD. Hadrian's Villa was the

title: Claude Monet

text: was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar. (He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet".) Despite being baptized Catholic, Monet later became an atheist. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family's ship-chandling and grocery business, but

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: light. The invention of the collapsible metal paint tube (1841) and portable easel brought painting, formerly confined to studios, into the outdoors. Boudin and Monet spent the summer of 1858 painting nature together. Like Boudin, Monet came to prefer painting outdoors rather than in a studio, the convention of the time. "If I have become a painter," Monet said, "I owe it to Boudin." The landscape paintings of Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) influenced both Boudin and Monet and contributed to the development of early Impressionism. After meeting Jongkind in Sainte-Adresse in 1862, Monet began to cultivate an interest

title: Blanche Hoschedé Monet

text: Monet in the painting of the "Grandes Décorations". Monet had trained and encouraged Blanche as an artist. In a chapter on Blanche and Monet in "Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing" (2009), Burke comments, "Given the sheer scale of the surfaces to be covered in the "Grandes Décorations", it is logical to consider Monet had an assistant, and who better than Blanche?" Blanche Hoschedé Monet's works are in the following museums: Partial list of Blanche Hoschedé Monet's works: A movie entitled "Monet, la lumière blanche", directed by Chantal Picault, will be produced including the following actors: Blanche Hoschedé

title: Blanche Hoschedé Monet

text: Blanche Hoschedé Monet Blanche Hoschedé Monet (10 November 1865 – 8 December 1947) was a French painter who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet. Blanche Hoschedé was born in Paris, the second daughter of Ernest Hoschedé and Alice Hoschedé. Ernest was a businessman, a department store magnate in Paris. He collected impressionist paintings and was an important patron to Claude Monet early in his career. In 1876, he commissioned Claude Monet to paint decorative panels in the round drawing room, in his residence, the "château de Rottembourg", in Montgeron. In 1877, Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt and

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: alone one does better?...I've always been of this mind, and what I do under these conditions has always been better. One is too much taken up with what one sees and hears in Paris, however firm one may be, and what I am painting here has at least the merit of not resembling anyone...because it will be simply the expression of what I shall have felt, I myself, personally. During his time in Étretat, Monet completed three paintings of fishing boats, one of a rural road, and, sometime between late 1868 and January or February 1869, "The Magpie" (W 133).

title: Akim Monet

text: after India, he learned how to use digital printing technology to achieve glorious high-resolution prints of his negatives at a grand scale. All the details in a scene are imprinted on a negative. Monet sees a positive print as a reproduction, and a negative as the imprint of reality, the testimony of a microsecond. He is fascinated by the manner in which negatives reveal what the eye cannot see, the complement of what the eye does see. He marvels how black is the absence of light and white the sum of all colors. He tries to see how light travels

title: Haystacks (Monet series)

text: Haystacks (Monet series) Haystacks is the common English title for a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The principal subject of each painting in the series is stacks of harvested wheat (or possibly barley or oats: the original French title, Les Meules à Giverny, simply means The Stacks at Giverny). The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series (Wildenstein Index Numbers 1266-1290) which Monet began near the end of the summer of 1890 and continued through the following spring though Monet also produced earlier paintings using this same stack subject. The series is famous for the way in

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: Museum, San Diego Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art in 1998-1999. On 27 October 1985, during daylight hours, five masked gunmen with pistols threatening security and visitors entered the museum and stole nine paintings from the collection. Among them were "Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)" by Claude Monet, the painting from which the Impressionism movement took its name. Aside from that also stolen were "Camille Monet and Cousin on the Beach at Trouville", "Portrait of Jean Monet," "Portrait of Poly, Fisherman of Belle-Isle" and "Field of Tulips in Holland" also by Monet, "Bather Sitting on a Rock" and

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: Musée Marmottan Monet Musée Marmottan Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. It is the largest collection of his works. The museum also contains works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and others. It also houses the Wildenstein Collection of illuminated manuscripts and the Jules and Paul Marmottan collection of Napoleonic era art and furniture. Marmottan Museum's fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet, Claude's

title: Monet (submarine cable)

text: announced it has been selected by the Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide U.S. facilities and services for the next-generation cable landing station architecture, to support the Monet Submarine Cable System, terminating in the U.S. at Equinix's MI3 International Business Exchange data center, which services the greater Miami metropolitan area. Final splicing occurred in November 2016. According to Algar Telecom Looking Glass to US hosts, the cable is in operation as of May, 13th 2018. Monet (submarine cable) The MONET cable system is a subsea fibre optic telecommunications cable scheduled to be deployed at the end of 2016. Delays in

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: his father's house in Sainte-Adresse and lived with his aunt, leaving Doncieux and their child in Paris. Monet married Doncieux in 1870. Mme. Louis Joachim Gaudibert, an art collector, became Monet's first patron. Gaudibert helped Monet rent a house in Étretat for Doncieux and Jean in late 1868. Recovering from an episode of depression, Monet joined Doncieux and Jean at the house in Étretat in October, with Doncieux in the role of muse and life model. By December, Monet was in great spirits, "surrounded by everything that I love", and began to focus on painting. In a letter to Frédéric

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: on the Snowy Road at Honfleur", Monet avoided the usual hunting genre and motifs used by Courbet. Instead, he focused on light and color in a new way by reducing the number of shades. Monet chose an earth tone color scheme and increased the number of shades of blue to highlight reflections on the snow. Monet followed "A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur" with a notable series of snowscapes in 1867 including "Road by Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter". In 1867, Monet's girlfriend, Camille Doncieux (1847–1879), gave birth to their son Jean in Paris. Lacking money, Monet returned to

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: The Magpie (Monet) The Magpie () is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, created during the winter of 1868–1869 near the commune of Étretat in Normandy. Monet's patron, Louis Joachim Gaudibert, helped arrange a house in Étretat for Monet's fiancée Camille Doncieux and their newborn son, allowing Monet to paint in relative comfort, surrounded by his family. Between 1867 and 1893, Monet and fellow Impressionists Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro painted hundreds of landscapes illustrating the natural effect of snow ("effet de neige"). Similar winter paintings were produced by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, and Paul Gauguin.

title: Blanche Hoschedé Monet

text: death of Ernest in 1891. Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé got married on 16 July 1892. The only child in the Hoschedé-Monet household to become interested in art, Blanche began painting at the age of eleven and developed a fond relationship with Claude Monet. She visited his studio as well as Édouard Manet's. By the time she was 17 years old, she was Monet's assistant and only student, often painting en plein air alongside him, painting the same subject with the same colors. Blanche also painted alongside American expatriates Theodore Earl Butler and John Leslie Breck. Monet stopped the romance

title: Claude Monet

text: funeral, his long-time friend Georges Clemenceau removed the black cloth draped over the coffin, stating, "No black for Monet!" and replaced it with a flower-patterned cloth. His home, garden, and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the Institut de France) in 1966. Through the "Fondation Claude Monet", the house and gardens were opened for visits in 1980, following restoration. In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life, the house contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints. The house and garden, along with

title: Claude Monet

text: had married Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914. After Alice died, Blanche looked after and cared for Monet. It was during this time that Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts. During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Georges Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers. In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts. The paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic

title: Claude Monet

text: During the 1890s, Monet built a greenhouse and a second studio, a spacious building well lit with skylights. Monet wrote daily instructions to his gardener, precise designs and layouts for plantings, and invoices for his floral purchases and his collection of botany books. As Monet's wealth grew, his garden evolved. He remained its architect, even after he hired seven gardeners. Monet purchased additional land with a water meadow. In 1893 he began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. White water lilies local to France were planted along with imported

title: Claude Monet

text: the arts. In 1878, Camille Monet was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She died on 5 September 1879 at the age of thirty-two. Monet made a study in oils of his dead wife. Many years later, Monet confessed to his friend Georges Clemenceau that his need to analyse colours was both the joy and torment of his life. He explained, I one day found myself looking at my beloved wife's dead face and just systematically noting the colours according to an automatic reflex! John Berger describes the work as "a blizzard of white, grey, purplish paint ... a terrible blizzard of

title: Claude Monet

text: Amsterdam. In October or November 1871, he returned to France. From December 1871 to 1878 he lived at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best-known works. In 1873, Monet purchased a small boat equipped to be used as a floating studio. From the boat studio Monet painted landscapes and also portraits of Édouard Manet and his wife; Manet in turn depicted Monet painting aboard the boat, accompanied by Camille, in 1874. In 1874, he briefly returned to Holland. The first

title: Claude Monet

text: la robe verte"), one of many works using his future wife, Camille Doncieux, as his model. Both this painting and a small landscape were hung. The following year Monet used Camille for his model in "Women in the Garden", and "On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt" in 1868. Camille became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean, in 1867. Monet and Camille married on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871. During this time Monet painted various works

title: Claude Monet

text: of my future researches". After about a year of garrison duty in Algiers, Monet contracted typhoid fever and briefly went absent without leave. Following convalescence, Monet's aunt intervened to remove him from the army if he agreed to complete a course at an art school. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new

title: Claude Monet

text: Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression, Sunrise"), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to

title: Monet Mazur

text: and 2010, of "Castle" as Gina, the publisher and ex-wife of character Richard Castle. Monet Mazur Monet H. Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American film and television actress. Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator known for creating the "tongue" logo for the Rolling Stones, and her mother Valerie Chasin, who was a model. Mazur is the oldest of four siblings, the only daughter, all given first names that are the last names of famous artists (Monet, a brother named for Matisse, and twin brothers named for Cézanne and Miro). Mazur

title: Monet Mazur

text: Monet Mazur Monet H. Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American film and television actress. Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator known for creating the "tongue" logo for the Rolling Stones, and her mother Valerie Chasin, who was a model. Mazur is the oldest of four siblings, the only daughter, all given first names that are the last names of famous artists (Monet, a brother named for Matisse, and twin brothers named for Cézanne and Miro). Mazur is of Jewish ancestry on her father's side. Mazur's cousin is Epic Mazur of

title: Daniella Monet

text: became engaged to Andrew Gardner after seven years of dating. She became a vegetarian at age five and vegan since the age of 13. Daniella Monet Daniella Monet Zuvic (born March 1, 1989) is an American actress and singer best known for playing numerous television guest roles and starring as Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon comedy series "Victorious". She also played Rebecca in the Nickelodeon comedy-drama series "Zoey 101" and the supporting role of Inga Veinshtein in the 2007 film "Nancy Drew". In 2010, she had a recurring role on the NBC drama series "American Dreams". Monet landed a recurring

title: Daniella Monet

text: Daniella Monet Daniella Monet Zuvic (born March 1, 1989) is an American actress and singer best known for playing numerous television guest roles and starring as Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon comedy series "Victorious". She also played Rebecca in the Nickelodeon comedy-drama series "Zoey 101" and the supporting role of Inga Veinshtein in the 2007 film "Nancy Drew". In 2010, she had a recurring role on the NBC drama series "American Dreams". Monet landed a recurring role on the ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules" as Missy Keinfield, Rory's love interest in the second season. She has a sister, Sissy (Elena

title: Akim Monet

text: On that day I was invited to commune with the work of the sculptor who for me incarnates the notion of engagement – in the past, but also in the future – in life and in the yonder, in brief the engagement in the study of the human condition″. Akim Monet Monet had his first solo show: 'Passage to India' (2002) at Carosso, LLC Fine Arts, New York; two years later two solo exhibitions: 'Homage to Gaudi' at 5, rue de la Muse Gallery, Geneva and at Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium. In 2005 Monet had another solo exhibition,

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: donated his large collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works (which included several Monets) to the museum. Jacque Carlu, then curator of the museum, built a special exhibition space for the Monet collection in a lower level of the museum. Inspired by the hall designed for Monet's "Water Lilies" murals in the Musée de l'Orangerie, the large, open room allows visitors to see a progression of Monet's work, as well as to view his canvases both up close and from afar. One of the most notable pieces in the museum is Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" "(Impression, Soleil Levant)", the painting from which

title: Boulevard des Capucines (Monet)

text: recently the Moscow picture has been favoured. Boulevard des Capucines (Monet) Boulevard des Capucines is an oil on canvas street scene painting of Boulevard des Capucines by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet created in 1873. From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists, met with rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts which held its annual exhibition at the Salon de Paris. During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organized the to exhibit their artworks independently. At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its

title: Boulevard des Capucines (Monet)

text: Boulevard des Capucines (Monet) Boulevard des Capucines is an oil on canvas street scene painting of Boulevard des Capucines by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet created in 1873. From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists, met with rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts which held its annual exhibition at the Salon de Paris. During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organized the to exhibit their artworks independently. At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its lasting name, "Impression, Sunrise". Among the works

title: Fondation Monet in Giverny

text: Fondation Monet in Giverny The Fondation Claude Monet is a nonprofit organisation that runs and preserves the house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France. With a total of 530,000 visitors in 2010, it is the second most visited tourist site in Normandy after the Mont Saint-Michel. The House and Garden have been recognised as a "Maison des Illustres" and "Jardin remarquable" rewarding their outstanding qualities. The estate was classified as a Monument historique in 1976. Claude Monet lived and painted in Giverny from 1883 to his death in 1926, and directed the renovation of the house, retaining its

title: Fondation Monet in Giverny

title: Claude Monet

text: repeatedly painted the same subject in different lights, at different hours of the day, and through the changes of weather and season. This process began in the 1880s and continued until the end of his life in 1926. His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1891. In 1892 he produced what is probably his best-known series, twenty-six views of "Rouen Cathedral". In these paintings Monet broke with painterly traditions by cropping the subject so

title: Akim Monet

text: between" including three different body of works: “Passage to India”, “Homage to Gaudí” and “Exotic Flowers”.” Liz Christensen, Curator at the Deutsche Bank Fine Art Program said about his work: "Fascinated by the moment captured by the opening and closing of the shutter – creating what the artist calls the “burn” of the image – Monet's photographs conjure a mystery and beauty akin to alchemy." 1992 Passage to India “My fellow artist Akim Monet invited me to lunch at his home in New York City. As I entered his dining room, I was immediately struck by several large scale photographs

title: Haystacks (Monet series)

text: general, began to rise steeply. As a result, he was able to buy outright the house and grounds at Giverny and to start constructing a waterlily pond. After years of mere subsistence living, he was able to enjoy success. The series demonstrates his intense study of light and atmospheric conditions and Monet was a perfectionist in his renderings. Monet destroyed more than one series of paintings that he found wanting. However, this series escaped his own harsh self-criticism and destruction. From the 1888 harvest, Monet produced three canvases featuring two stacks each (Wildenstein #'s 1213-5) against the backdrop of hills

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: a showcase for pieces from the First Empire, the nature of the museum's collection began to change with two major donations. In 1957, Victorine Donop de Monchy gave the museum an important collection of Impressionist works that had belonged to her father, Doctor Georges de Bellio, physician to Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Renoir, and an early supporter of the Impressionist movement. In 1966, Claude Monet's second son, Michel Monet, left the museum his own collection of his father's work, thus creating the world's largest collection of Monet paintings. In 1985, Nelly Duhem, adopted daughter of the painter Henri Duhem,

title: The Magpie (Monet)

text: and colored shadows with "Grainstacks Snow Effect" (1891). In honor of the 150th anniversary of Monet's birth, the Principality of Monaco issued a stamp of "The Magpie" in 1990, designed by French engraver Pierre Albuisson. French design studio Les 84 created a 3D version of "The Magpie" for the 2010–2011 Monet exhibition at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. The Magpie (Monet) The Magpie () is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, created during the winter of 1868–1869 near the commune of Étretat in Normandy. Monet's patron, Louis Joachim Gaudibert, helped arrange a house in Étretat

title: Monet Investment Bank

text: In the second half of 2009 it governed transactions of over MNT4.5 billion. At present it has over 3,000 customers for its brokerage and dealer services, and dominates approximately 4% of Mongolia’s Brokerage and Dealing market and 9% of the Underwriting market. Monet Investment Bank Monet LLC, or "Monet Capital Investment Bank," is a Mongolian underwriting, brokerage and investment banking firm based in Ulaanbaatar, the country’s capital city. Originally established as “Bats Invest” in 1997, it was one of the first companies to offer a full range of services in the Mongolian Stock Exchange. It has grown steadily alongside Mongolia’s

title: Monet Investment Bank

text: Monet Investment Bank Monet LLC, or "Monet Capital Investment Bank," is a Mongolian underwriting, brokerage and investment banking firm based in Ulaanbaatar, the country’s capital city. Originally established as “Bats Invest” in 1997, it was one of the first companies to offer a full range of services in the Mongolian Stock Exchange. It has grown steadily alongside Mongolia’s developing economy, and now looks to prepare for the fresh investment that will follow the country’s latest mining exploits. From 2009, it has expanded as one of Mongolia’s few investment banks, creating investment funds and advisory services to attract foreign and domestic

title: Simonne Monet-Chartrand

text: The premier second edition was put out shortly after her death.Later, a school was made for her memory in Montreal, Quebec. Simonne Monet-Chartrand Simonne Monet-Chartrand (November 4, 1919 – January 18, 1993) was a Canadian activist. Simonne was married to Michel Chartrand. She was heavily into women rights, and feminism. She was a social activist and a speaker. During the fifties, she played a role in marriage preparation services, parent's schools, parent-teacher associations, family unions and cooperatives. Monet-Chartrand was born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. She was a strong leader for women and men. In 1949 she was an advocate for

title: Blanche Hoschedé Monet

text: that had developed between Blanche and Breck, while he allowed Butler to marry Blanche’s sister, Suzanne Hoschedé, in 1892. The art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel purchased a "Haystack" painting by Blanche, and it currently is displayed in Monet’s house in Giverny. In January 1888, while in Antibes, Monet encouraged Blanche to submit a work to the Salon. Blanche married Claude Monet’s eldest son, Jean Monet, in 1897. The couple lived in Rouen, where Jean worked as a chemist for his uncle Léon Monet, and until 1913 in Beaumont-le-Roger. Her mother, Alice, died on 19 May 1911, and Jean on 10 February

title: Blanche Hoschedé Monet

text: his art collection was auctioned off. Ernest Hoschedé, Alice, and their six children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, his wife Camille, and their two sons, Jean and the infant Michel. Ernest, however, spent most of his time in Paris, and eventually went to Belgium. After the death of Camille in Vétheuil on 5 September 1879, Alice and her children continued living with Monet. In 1881, they moved to Poissy, and finally settled in their home in Giverny in 1883. Although Ernest and Alice Hoschedé never divorced, Claude Monet and Alice went on living together until after the

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: found were two paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot stolen in 1984 from a museum in France. This led to the recovery of the stolen paintings in a small villa in Corsica in December 1990. Musée Marmottan Monet Musée Marmottan Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. It is the largest collection of his works. The museum also contains works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and others. It also houses the

title: Lycée Claude-Monet

text: last going to the station of the same name, "Lycée Claude Monet" Lycée Claude-Monet The lycée Claude-Monet is a French public educational institution established in 1955. It consists of college, high school, and preparatory classes. It is located at 1, rue du Docteur-Magnan, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris close to the Quartier Asiatique. It is close to the parc de Choisy, stade Charles-Moureu and centre Pierre-Mendès-France, a university centre attached to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. The campus consists of more than students, mostly living in the 13th arrondissement. The lycée offers a choice of options around artistic specialities (music, theatre,

title: Simonne Monet-Chartrand

text: Simonne Monet-Chartrand Simonne Monet-Chartrand (November 4, 1919 – January 18, 1993) was a Canadian activist. Simonne was married to Michel Chartrand. She was heavily into women rights, and feminism. She was a social activist and a speaker. During the fifties, she played a role in marriage preparation services, parent's schools, parent-teacher associations, family unions and cooperatives. Monet-Chartrand was born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. She was a strong leader for women and men. In 1949 she was an advocate for asbestos strikers with her husband, and later was the co-founder for the Simone de Beauvoir Institute dedicated to feminist studies. She

title: San Giorgio Maggiore (Monet series)

text: from the following collections: Monet also used San Giorgio Maggiore as a view-point for "The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore". San Giorgio Maggiore (Monet series) Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the island-monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. They were begun in 1908 during the artist's only visit to the city. One of the best known is "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk", which exists in two versions. Monet completed his paintings of Venice at home in France, and in 1912 showed them in Paris. Buyers included the Welsh collector Gwendoline Davies, who bought three paintings.

title: San Giorgio Maggiore (Monet series)

text: San Giorgio Maggiore (Monet series) Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the island-monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. They were begun in 1908 during the artist's only visit to the city. One of the best known is "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk", which exists in two versions. Monet completed his paintings of Venice at home in France, and in 1912 showed them in Paris. Buyers included the Welsh collector Gwendoline Davies, who bought three paintings. A painting by Monet, described as being of San Giorgio Maggiore, was seized in July 2016 by Swiss officials on behalf of

title: Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series)

text: exhibition titled "Monet & Architecture", devoted to Claude Monet's use of architecture as a means to structure and enliven his art. This was a rare occurrence because no museum owns or exhibits more than one in a permanent collection. The two paintings exhibited were the examples from the following collections: Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series) Charing Cross Bridge is a series of oil paintings by French artist Claude Monet. Painted in between 1899 and 1904, they depict a misty, impressionistic Charing Cross Bridge in London. During the years between 1899 and 1905, Monet travelled to London to capture its sights

title: Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series)

text: Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series) Charing Cross Bridge is a series of oil paintings by French artist Claude Monet. Painted in between 1899 and 1904, they depict a misty, impressionistic Charing Cross Bridge in London. During the years between 1899 and 1905, Monet travelled to London to capture its sights from the fifth-floor balcony of the Savoy Hotel. Monet was captivated by the London fog, a notable atmospheric effect made markedly worse by the heavy pollution of the Industrial Revolution. He painted the Houses of Parliament, Waterloo Bridge, and Charing Cross Bridge over and over, as he had earlier done

title: Claude Monet

text: painting for Imelda but did not have a chance to give her the money. The Philippine government seeks the return of the painting. "Le Bassin aux Nympheas", also known as "Japanese Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny", is part of Monet's famed Water Lilies series. Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from

title: Claude Monet

text: dabs and dashes and squiggles of paint. Having rejected the academic teachings of Gleyre's studio, he freed himself from theory, saying "I like to paint as a bird sings." In 1877 a series of paintings at St-Lazare Station had Monet looking at smoke and steam and the way that they affected colour and visibility, being sometimes opaque and sometimes translucent. He was to further use this study in the painting of the effects of mist and rain on the landscape. The study of the effects of atmosphere was to evolve into a number of series of paintings in which Monet

title: Claude Monet

text: of the vision of cataract victims. It may also be that after surgery he was able to see certain ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are normally excluded by the lens of the eye; this may have had an effect on the colours he perceived. After his operations he even repainted some of these paintings, with bluer water lilies than before. Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery. Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus only about fifty people attended the ceremony. At his

title: Claude Monet

text: Orchard" and Monet the same for "Impression: Sunrise", neither of which sold. Renoir failed to obtain the 500 francs he was asking for "La Loge", but later sold it for 450 francs to Père Martin, dealer and supporter of the group. In 1876, Camille Monet became ill with tuberculosis. Their second son, Michel, was born on 17 March 1878. This second child weakened her already fading health. In the summer of that year, the family moved to the village of Vétheuil where they shared a house with the family of Ernest Hoschedé, a wealthy department store owner and patron of

title: Claude Monet

text: seven pastels. Among the paintings he displayed was "The Luncheon" (1868), which features Camille Doncieux and Jean Monet, and which had been rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870. Also in this exhibition was a painting titled "Boulevard des Capucines", a painting of the boulevard done from the photographer Nadar's apartment at no. 35. Monet painted the subject twice, and it is uncertain which of the two pictures, that now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, or that in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, was the painting that appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 exhibition, though more recently

title: Claude Monet

text: of modern life. He and Camille lived in poverty for most of this period. Following the successful exhibition of some maritime paintings, and the winning of a silver medal at Le Havre, Monet's paintings were seized by creditors, from whom they were bought back by a shipping merchant, Gaudibert, who was also a patron of Boudin. From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists met with rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts, which held its annual exhibition at the Salon de Paris. During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley organized the

title: Claude Monet

text: a low ballot number in March 1861, Monet was drafted into the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry ("Chasseurs d'Afrique") in Algeria for a seven-year period of military service. His prosperous father could have purchased Monet's exemption from conscription but declined to do so when his son refused to give up painting. While in Algeria Monet did only a few sketches of casbah scenes, a single landscape, and several portraits of officers, all of which have been lost. In a "Le Temps" interview of 1900 however he commented that the light and vivid colours of North Africa "contained the germ

title: Claude Monet

text: adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. In 1899, he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life. Claude Monet

title: Margarita Monet

text: Soon their music partnership created tremendous results and solidified the band that took up the new name, Edge Of Paradise. Margarita Monet Margarita Monet (born Margarita Martirosyan; February 15, 1990) is an American singer, pianist, composer and an actress. She is the founder/ lead vocalist for the hard rock/symphonic metal band Edge Of Paradise. Known for her powerful voice and incredible range. Margarita has three full-length albums out with her band Edge Of Paradise, Mask 2011, Immortal Waltz 2015 and ALIVE 2017. Margarita was born in Yerevan, Armenia and moved to Moscow, Russia at an early age. She started music

title: Margarita Monet

text: Margarita Monet Margarita Monet (born Margarita Martirosyan; February 15, 1990) is an American singer, pianist, composer and an actress. She is the founder/ lead vocalist for the hard rock/symphonic metal band Edge Of Paradise. Known for her powerful voice and incredible range. Margarita has three full-length albums out with her band Edge Of Paradise, Mask 2011, Immortal Waltz 2015 and ALIVE 2017. Margarita was born in Yerevan, Armenia and moved to Moscow, Russia at an early age. She started music lessons at the age of four and quickly accelerated into a competitive and performance ready pianist. She has competed and

title: Michel Monet

text: estate. Michel never spent time in Giverny and Blanche Hoschedé Monet, his stepsister and sister-in-law, became the caretaker of the house and garden until her death in 1947. Louis Lebret, who had been Monet's head gardener, stayed on to help Blanche. After her death the garden was neglected. Michel Monet, a car enthusiast, died in a car crash in nearby Vernon on 3 February 1966, a few weeks before his 88th birthday. He had bequeathed the estate to the Académie des beaux-arts. From 1977 onwards, Gérald Van der Kemp, then curator at the Château de Versailles, played a key role

title: Akim Monet

text: the works of Akim Monet. The traces of our past are promoted by Monet: works, sculptures, buildings, environments of the Italian artistic culture are exalted through the strength of forms and dynamics of individual gestures, which projected in the future, seem to resist indelibly to time. Delicate and elegant chromatics, plays of light, colors and shadows induce the viewer to ponder about the meaning of beauty, giving a new light to antiquities, through which knowledge merges with artistic consciousness″. (Claudio Fortugno). 2009 Rodin. A photographic engagement ″Early in 2009 I was invited to take photographs at the Musée Rodin on

title: Rouen Cathedral (Monet series)

text: owns or exhibits more than three in a permanent collection. The five paintings exhibited were the examples from the following collections: <br> Rouen Cathedral (Monet series) The Rouen Cathedral series was painted in the 1890s by French impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings in the series each capture the façade of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year, and reflect changes in its appearance under different lighting conditions. The "Rouen Cathedral" paintings, more than thirty in all, were made in 1892 and 1893 in Rouen, Normandy, then reworked in Monet’s studio in 1894. Monet rented spaces in

title: Fondation Monet in Giverny

text: In a bid to raise funds, he and his wife Florence appealed to American donors through the "Versailles Foundation-Giverny Inc.". They, thereafter, dedicated themselves to its restoration. The "Fondation Claude Monet" was created in 1980 as the estate was declared public. It soon became very successful and now welcomes both French and international visitors from April to November. When Gérald Van der Kemp died in 2001, Florence Van der Kemp became the curator of the Fondation Monet and continued renovating the property until her death in 2008. Hugues Gall was appointed Director of the Fondation Claude Monet by the Académie

title: Fondation Monet in Giverny

text: spent time in Giverny, it was left to Blanche Hoschedé Monet, the daughter of Alice and the widow of Jean Monet, to look after the garden with the help of former head gardener Louis Lebret. After Blanche died in 1947, the garden was left untended. Michel Monet died heirless in a car crash in 1966. He had bequeathed the estate to the Académie des beaux-arts. From 1977 onwards, Gérald Van der Kemp, then curator at the Palace of Versailles, played a key role in the restoration of the neglected house and gardens, which had been left in a desolate state.

title: Fondation Monet in Giverny

text: pink-painted walls. Colours from the painter's own palette were used for the interior -green for the doors and shutters, yellow in the dining room, complete with Japanese Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries, and blue for the kitchen. Monet had the nearby river Epte partially diverted for the gardens and hired up to seven gardeners to tend to it. Monet gained much of his inspiration from his gardens and believed it was important to surround himself with nature and paint outdoors. When Monet died in 1926, the entire estate was passed on to his son Michel. As he never

title: Boulevard des Capucines (Monet)

text: Monet included in the first Impressionist exhibition was "The Luncheon", 1868, which features Camille Doncieux and Jean Monet. The painting was rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870. Also in this exhibition was a painting titled "Boulevard des Capucines", a painting of the boulevard done from the photographer Nadar's apartment at no. 35. Monet painted the subject twice and it is uncertain which of the two pictures, that now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, or that in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (shown here) was the painting that appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 exhibition, though more

title: Water Lilies (Monet series)

text: Water Lilies (Monet series) Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts. Monet's long preference for producing and exhibiting a series of paintings related by subject and perspective began in 1889, with at least ten paintings done at the "Valley of the Creuse", which were shown at the Galerie Georges

title: Houses of Parliament (Monet series)

text: of a temporary exhibition titled "Monet & Architecture", devoted to Claude Monet's use of architecture as a means to structure and enliven his art. This was a rare occurrence because no museum owns or exhibits more than two in a permanent collection. The three paintings exhibited were the examples from the following collections: Houses of Parliament (Monet series) Claude Monet painted a series of oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London. All of the series' paintings share the

title: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (Monet)

text: and their newborn son, Jean. Monet attended the birth in Paris and returned to the coast a few days later. The pair of paintings juxtaposes this sunny regatta watched at high tide by well dressed bourgeois, with an overcast scene at low tide, fishing boats hauled onto the beach peopled with sailors and workers. Since Monet never exhibited the paintings side by side, the contrast between them was probably not intended as a social manifesto but instead reflected differing conditions under which the same place could be painted. On 25 June 1867, Monet reported that he was working on about

title: Haystacks (Monet series)

text: which Monet repeated the same subject to show the differing light and atmosphere at different times of day, across the seasons and in many types of weather. The series is among Monet's most notable work. The largest "Haystacks" collections are held at the Musée d'Orsay and Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, and in the Art Institute of Chicago. Other collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, and Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie. The Art Institute of Chicago collection includes six of

title: Musée Marmottan Monet

text: "Portrait of Monet" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Young Woman at the Ball" by Berthe Morisot, and "Portrait of Monet" by Seiichi Naruse. The stolen paintings were valued at $12 million. A tip-off led to the arrest in Japan of a yakuza gangster named Shuinichi Fujikuma who had spent time in French prison for trafficking heroin and was sentenced for five years. There he met Philippe Jamin and Youssef Khimoun who were part of an art syndicate. Fujikuma, Jamin and Khimoun planned the Marmottan theft. In Fujikuma's house, police found a catalog with all the stolen paintings from the museum circled. Also