Today I want to talk about some of my favorite photos. Ever since I studied at art school, they have remained my favorite. It's hard to explain why, but it attracts something, and wants to see the details all the longer and longer.Claude Monet's first painting "Water Lilies in Bloom". In 1883, Monet and his family moved to a plantation in the town of Giverny. Claude has no beauty, he wants all day to be in exile with him and write a prirodu.Poetomu he asked permission from local authorities to build a pond near his domom.Poluchiv him, he hired workers to dig and create this beautiful prud.Mone said that she needs a whole day of quiet, calm, and beautiful waterless observation before beginning work. And here, in the period between 1904-1909, Monet wrote 60 landscapes where the main character is his water garden.In May 1909, these paintings were exhibited. The audience and critics perfectly received this scene, admiring their depth and beauty.
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Who is not familiar with the biography of Claude Monet, it is worth poyasnit.Delo that unlike many of his great level artists, Monet himself is looking for inspiration in the environment, rather than emotion-sucking the energetic energy of drunkenness.On the peace and beauty created around him.
But in the years that followed, Monet's oldest wife and son left their lives, and he himself discovered a cataract, He underwent two operations before his eyes, because of permanently deteriorating vision.
A beautiful pool gradually tightens with mud, less water lilies and less frequent blooms, and Monet plunges into the deepest depression.
Just five years later, Monet decided that hvatit.On pulled himself by the hair out of the depression and began writing."Water lily blooms", along with other paintings, he wrote for three years, 1914-1917 god.Vmeste so, how these lilies bloom, and his sorrow and sadness disappear.
Canvas painted in this period, not Monet vystavlyal.Pri life Monet "water lilies in bloom" is not seen by anyone, except hudozhnika.Ved he wrote them only for himself and his family set out.
Monet died in the same place, on his property in Giverny from lung cancer at the age of 86 years.
Whistler Mom
James Whistler painted his mother's portrait in 1871. But apart from the picture of classicism, it was reluctant and with great difficulty brought to the Royal Academy exhibition. And then, after mid-respected academic William Boxall, who once painted a portrait of a Whistler boy, he threatened to resign and raise the scandal. But the portrait is so bad hanging in the offended Academy Whistler refuses to show there in the future ... The reviews from the movie are then cold, then negative.
Ten years later, in 1891, Whistler's "Mother" was bought for the Museum of Luxembourg.
Corner in cafe - concert
Edward Manet began working on "The corner in the cafe-concert" picture in 1878. Initially, he wanted to convey the situation in Brassarie Reishofen - a fashionable Parisian bistro. At that time, small cafes, where visitors were served by servants only - had just emerged.
Working on "Brassari Reischoffen", Manet just cut the canvas into two parts. The right side changes to "Angle in a cafe-concert", only a new background appears above it. Now he lives in the National Gallery of London.
The left side of the picture is stored in the Oscar Reinhart museum, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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