HaystacksĪnother one of Monet’s series of en plein air paintings the Haystacks( Les Meules à Giverny, original titles) were painted close to his house in Giverny. Monet had many long standing canvases that he would often work on at the same time spread out throughout the day depending on the prevailing light conditions. Other great Monet works in the series feature pictures of the Houses of Parliament painted in a similar style with some of the canvas only started in London and were later finished in his house in Giverny after returning to France. Westminster dominate the right hand side of the image with Westminster bridge creates a horizontal vocal point between the sky and the river. The painting depicts London on a foggy day, with which the artist would later say that only in fog is London a beautiful city and this is why only in winter does he truly appreciate it. It is the Thames Below Westminster that is considered his best work from the city. The Thames Below WestminsterĪlong with other famous impressionist artists Daubigny and Pissarro Monet and his family moved to London to flee the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871.ĭuring this time he would have a fairly unproductive spell in his career as he only painted a few paintings which centered around the Thames and Green park and Hyde Park. Monet painted several series of paintings that focused on the same subject matter but it is Water Lilies that he we be most remembered for. In the 1920’s the French government built a matching pair of oval rooms in the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris that has become a permanent installation of eight of Monet’s murals of Water Lilies, the artist sadly died but a few short months after it’s opening. Some of the larger works of the series would become one of the famous impressionist paintings ever. Monet would spend considerable time and energy on painting the pond with considerable focus on the water lilies. In his garden there was a large pond filled with water lilies and a small bridge across it. The Water Lilies series spans some 250 pieces of art of varying sizes.įor the last 30 or so years of his life Monet spent considerable time painting en plein air in his garden in Giverny. Next to Impression Sunrise the series of paintings that Monet is mostly famous for would be the Water Lilies. Ironically it is actually not an great example of impressionism as it has a much more restrained use of brush strokes and more muted colors than the art that one go on to personify the movement. Impression Sunrise is the painting that inspired the name of the new movement we have also featured it in our list of famous paintings along with other impressionist works. They were so resolutely rejected that it drove the group of artists to hold their own exhibition after being rejected from the Paris Salon in 1874. With one famous critic of the time Louis Leroy suggesting that wallpaper was in more of a finished state than Monet’s paintings. Initially the impressionist and their art was not well received by the Paris art establishment. It could be argued that Impression Sunrise of all of the artists work is the most famous Monet painting.ĭespite his much loved series of work such as Water Lilies it is Impression Sunrise that launched no only Monet but the entire impressionist movement to fame.
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