50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.....PARIS VII....GIVERNY....MONET'S HOME

Water Lilies
Giverny

Claude Monet's  Water Garden

 Willows over Water Lily Pond

Bamboo near Pond 

Weeping Willows

Planting Water Lilies 

Japanese Bridge in Water Garden

Mimosa and Dahlias in Monet's massive gardens surrounding his Home. Flower gardens are a riot of color....loose and over-flowing beyond their beds....color combinations take your breath away.

Arbor of Roses
Nasturtiums crawling across the path to the front Door
Cosmos and  Dahlias

Path to front door not open to the Public 

Monet's Home 

Walkway of Lavender
Blooms in July
Pictured in September 

Kitchen
 No flash photography....had to stop taking Pictures 

But not before taking these Two
Eating Area
Cooking area was all French Country
Blue and Yellow Tiles
Beautiful!

Growing right out of the Grass
No Leaves 

All my life I have been drawn to color and design.  In High School, 50 years ago, Mrs. Yeargin, my art teacher for three years, opened my world to the styles and beauty of furniture, ceramics, watercolor, jewelry making and the work of the Great Masters.  I especially appreciated the Impressionist and Monet in particular.  I visited Giverny this fall and found that it exceeded my expectation.

Thanks, Chuck!

Train to Vernon, France
Biked four miles out to Giverny and 4 miles Back

Claude Monet

1840-1926

 Claude Monet was the founder of Impressionism. The word itself, derived from one of his paintings entitled Impression, Sunrise. He married his model Camille Doncieux with whom he had two children.  Camille died after their second child was born and Monet eventually married a woman who had six children, Alice Hoschede. Monet moved his family from Paris to Giverny where he lived, gardened and painted for the remainder of his life.  Here he found financial success which allowed him to enjoy a peaceful life in the country.  Monet painted the water lilies in his ponds in every season of the year, during all kinds of weather, and during different times of the day. 

Several of Monet's large water lily paintings are exhibited in the Musee l 'Orangerie in Paris. In 2008 one of his water lily paintings,  Lot 19,  sold at Christies for...

 $7l,892,376.00 

Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Heni Rousseau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

all became famous for their Impressionist paintings.

Impressionism is a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve an accurate depiction.