12.05.2011

85 years ago.

on a day like today, Claude Monet died.
"Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was 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, Sunrise."

one highlight of my trip to France was visiting Musée d'Orsay & seeing Monet's water lilies collection. 




It was absolutely breathtaking.  Monet requested that his paintings not be put in a museum, unless it was lit by natural light.  So his paintings sat & waited for the museum to be constructed.  The museum is spectacular.  Depending on what time of day, the paintings seem different.  I could have spent an entire 24 hrs. just sitting admiring the paintings.  
i love monet's style.  he is at the top of my list of favorite artists. 

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