This blog provides a travel resource for those wishing to visit Normandy and visit the sites that inspired impressionist artists. There is also information about exhibitions around the world.
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Latest Blog Posts for Monet, Giverny & Normandy
- Five Outstanding Impressionist Exhibitions for 2013The year 2013 is going to be another year fans of impressionist art will not forget. To begin with, Normandy, the birthplace of French impressionism, will be hosting the second Impressionist Festival from April to September. And for those who…R...
- Monet’s Garden at the National Gallery of Victoria in MelbourneMonet’s Garden gets about I tell you: from New York in the summer of 2012 to Melbourne for the winter of 2013. But the Australian showing is, unlike the re-construction of iconic aspects of the artist’s garden in New York,…Read more...
- Monet’s Garden in its Autumnal GloryYou are more likely to come across colourful photographs of Claude Monet’s garden and the waterlily pond he created in full spring or summer bloom. Autumn, on the other hand, is overlooked. And perhaps I should own up to being…Read more &...
- ‘The Artist’s Garden at Giverny’Claude Monet, 1900, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny. Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 92.1 cm. © Yale University Art Gallery Claude Monet’s garden today is a delight to visit throughout the period it is open to the public (April to October). In May,...
- Exhibition: ‘Monet’s Garden’ in New York CityThe ‘grand allée’ is one of the most well known views of Monet’s house from the bottom of his garden, July 2009. Claude Monet’s Giverny garden is one of the most popular tourist attractions in France outside of Paris. Anyone...
- Claude Monet’s Japanese FootbridgeMonet on his footbridge (to the right), New York Times, 1922 There are so many wonderful features in Claude Monet’s Giverny garden, which does, at least in part, account for its enduring appeal. Given that French Impressionism and Monet in part...
- Exhibition: Degas to Dalí at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New ZealandLouis-Eugène Boudin, 1874, The Port of Bordeaux. Oil on canvas, 40 cm x 65.40 cm. © National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh – on show at the Degas to Dalí exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. On show in Auckland, New Zealand, dur...
- Impressionists Back on Display at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridgeon Jan 16, 2012 in Exhibitions & Museums News & Events Eragny-sur-Epte Fitzwilliam Monet News Pissarro“The Fitzwilliam is engaged in a staged programme of refurbishment of its galleries which provides an opportunity not only to refresh the displays but, just as importantly, to bring the fruits of new research and interpretations to bear on the...
- Normandy Impressionism Festival 2013on Jan 9, 2012 in News & EventsA night time projection on to a tall building advertising the Impressionism Festival 2010, Rouen. Having only just started 2012, you might feel it is just a bit too soon to be contemplating 2013. Of course, tourist authorities and organisations are p...
- Seeing Colors: Secrets of the ImpressionistsA group of students recently got in touch to tell me about their involvement and learning in during the preparations for an exhibition of impressionist art soon to open. Reading their blog it sounds like they have innovative lecturers who have helped...
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