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Japanese Bridge In Giverny Large Framed Print
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36x33 inches
In 1893, three years after buying property at Giverny, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge. Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his life. |
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Japanese Bridge In Giverny Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat •
36x33 inches
In 1893, three years after buying property at Giverny, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge. Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his life. This artwork was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899–1900; their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other vegetation on the pool’s surface.Here, the sky has disappeared from the painting; the lush foliage rises all the way to the horizon, and space is flattened by the decorative arch of the bridge.
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), the founder of Impressionism, is one of the most influential painters in the history of art.Born in Paris, eliminating black and gray from his palette, he represented natural colors like a prism, breaking it down into its individual componentsMonet brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression, ultimately becoming a forerunner of 20th century modernism.