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Shelley’s Art Musings – Claude Monet
The 11th November is Armistice Day, and this year marks 100 years of this monumental date, but did you know that Monet presented “Water Lilies” to the state as a monument of peace. This was done by writing to the Prime Minister and his friend George Clemenceau. The pair had been friends for over 30 years, and in Monet’s letter he wrote: “I am on the verge of finishing two decorative panels which I want to sign on Victory day, and am writing to ask you if they could be offered to the State with you acting as intermediary.” On November 14th this year, the Musee Orangerie will be holding…
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Monet – Clemenceau (part 2)
You can read part 1 here. When Monet was in Paris he could most often be found in his favourite district on the right bank near the railway station of Saint-Lazare. These were familiar haunts for Monet, as he used to arrive here from Le Havre and leave from here when travelling out into the environs of Paris. He covered canvas after canvas here, creating in the first cycle of his career Saint-Lazare Station (1877). The theme of the railway was not a new one in European art. The views of Saint-Lazare station and his landscapes of Montgeron were Monet’s major contributions to the Third Impressionist Exhibition, but neither the…
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Claude Monets Seerosen – Traumhaft oder Grauenhaft?
Claude Monet ist neben Pablo Picasso einer der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Künstler unserer Zeit. „Das ist wie ein Monet“ oder „Das ist ein echter Picasso.“ ist in unserer Sprache fest verankert, sodass diese Ausdrücke auch Nicht-kunstinteressierten bekannt sind. Doch was lässt ihn sich abheben von den vielen anderen, talentierten Künstlern? Ist Monet nicht viel zu überschätzt? In meiner Zeit in München erfuhr ich aus erster Hand die Wirkung von Monets berühmten Seerosen: In der Pinakothek der Moderne beginnt eine Tour im ersten, großen Hauptsaal, indem Monets Bild „Seerosen“ (um 1915 in Giverny entstanden) in monumentaler Größe auf der rechten Hauptwand zu sehen ist, platziert neben Max Klingers Plastik „Elsa Asenijeff“…
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