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
I first posted this painting in March of 2024. It’s such a counterpoint to the monotonous gray and constant rain of March in the part of the world where I live.
The flowering plum trees along the streets and in front gardens are covered in flowers in shades of purplish pink. The weather remains cold but even so, fruit trees are beginning to flower here.
All along the streets, in back yards, and public areas, apple, cherry, and plum trees are covered in buds, their branches faintly tinted with shades of pink and white. Lawns have turned that shade of green that one only sees this time of year unless one has a good sprinkler system.
In many older gardens here, yellow forsythia is blooming, and dogwood brightens each neighborhood. The Pacific Northwest is on the verge of bursting into color.
Monet’s sky is the same shade of glorious blue that the skies are here after a heavy rain has passed. Barely visible, a white farmhouse stands behind in under the trees. The leaves just beginning to burst out on the trees show us his ability to portray nature the way it is. The flowers in the grass 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).
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