Posts Tagged ‘Claude Monet’

Monet Reproductions Gives A Classic Touch In The Home

Monet Reproductions Gives A Classic Touch In The Home

  Blue Water Lilies by Claude Monet Monet reproductions are popular among art lovers because of Claude Monet’s light and nature-themed painting style. Many people like the realistic nature of his works especially with his painting series in which he experimented with lighting and colors. If you are among the many that are not familiar [...]


Claude Monet’s 1890s Exhibitions Reveal the Magic of Light

Claude Monet's 1890s Exhibitions Reveal the Magic of Light

Even a vague familiarity with Monet’s work renders one in awe of his mastery. Stacks of grain, trees, mountains, valleys and gothic cathedrals are the hallmarks of his series paintings. To the untrained or less perceptible eye, this natural common thread may appear repetitive. However, the exhibition of Monet’s 1890s series paintings reveals that light [...]


Claude Monet’s Boulevard des Capucines Oil Painting

Claude Monet’s Boulevard des Capucines Oil Painting

In 1974, Nadar, a close friend of the great Impressionist Claude Monet, held the first ever Impressionist exhibition. One of the most notable works to be included in that show was a Monet painting that featured his impressions of a view from Nadar’s window. However, Monet actually painted two different paintings of Boulevard des Capucines, [...]


Claude Monet – The Man Behind Impressionist Art Movement

Claude Monet - The Man Behind Impressionist Art Movement

Claude Monet started a simple painting but turned into something more because of a painting he named Impression Sunrise. Because of the given name artist all over the world decide to call the whole art movement and style the Impressionist Art. Monet was soon considered as the founder of impressionist art right then. Monet did [...]


Monet Water Lilies Painting Breaks Auction Records!

Monet Water Lilies Painting Breaks Auction Records!

Christie’s, London, June 2008, $80,451,178 becoming an auction record for a painting by Claude Monet, and the second highest price for a work of art in Europe. It was sold on 24 June 2008 at Christie’s London auction rooms for £40.9m, a world record for a Monet painting. Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (The Water Lily [...]


Group Of Drunk Intruders Punch Hole In A Monet Masterpiece

Group Of Drunk Intruders Punch Hole In A Monet Masterpiece

Times Online today posted an article regarding Group of Drunk Intruders Punch Hole in Monet Masterpiece. It’s a shame we have these reckless and stupid individuals that could do such a thing. The painting is damaged forever and there will never be a replacement. The damaged Monet painting was the famous The Bridge at Argenteuil [...]