#FineArtFriday: Spring in Giverny by Claude Monet 1890

Artist: Claude Monet  (1840–1926)

Title: Spring in Giverny

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: height: 64.8 cm (25.5 in); width: 81 cm (31.8 in)

Inscriptions: Signature and date bottom left: Claude Monet 90

What I love about this painting:

The fruit trees are flowering in the part of the world where I live. All along the streets, in back yards, and public areas, apple, cherry, and flowering plum trees are covered in buds, their branches tinted with shades of pink and white. The Pacific Northwest is bursting into color. The streets in our town are lined with trees of pink and white.

Yellow forsythia is blooming, and dogwood brightens each neighborhood. Flowering trees and ornamental shrubs bring swathes of welcome color to the gray and rainy days of March.

Monet’s trees show us the appreciation the artist had for nature. His fruit trees and ornamental trees make me happy too. We need the color, need the sunshine.

Thank you, Claude Monet, for sharing this moment in time with us.

About the Artist, via Wikipedia:

Oscar-Claude Monet 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting.  The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 (the “exhibition of rejects”) initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. [1]

Read the rest of the article at Claude Monet – Wikipedia

Credits and Attributions:

IMAGE: Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Monet – Frühling in Giverny.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Monet_-_Fr%C3%BChling_in_Giverny.jpg&oldid=654964112 (accessed March 21, 2024).

[1] Wikipedia contributors, “Claude Monet,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claude_Monet&oldid=1213738859 (accessed March 21, 2024).