A few years back I had the luxury, and yes I will call it luxury, of visiting the sublime Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris. It was a trip highlighted by Mr. Claude Monet first at Giverny, then at Musee Marmonttan Monet and finally at Orangerie. Monet felt Paris needed a little cheering up after the war and gave them a place of peace and sanctuary to observe and be with his massive water lilies. (I think that is a beautiful sentiment some of us could use even now.) Since this visit I have been hyper aware of all things Monet counting the days until I can visit the tulips at Giverny again. Why am I writing about this now? Well, I recently visited an exhibit of late Monet works in San Francisco which I will post about in short order and I thought it would be fun to see early works flanked by later works soon. Stay tuned friends…
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 
Beautiful! I :heart: Monet. I’ve been to the Musee de l’Orangerie also, with it’s huge Monet murals, and to Giverny a couple of times. Of these things I boast. Not to be missed for more Monet and lots of Impressionism is the Musee d’Orsay. We have a Monet exhibit coming to the Denver Art Museum this fall, for which I’ve already bought tickets. A must see. Although Monet’s Impressionism is often ‘hazy’, I wonder that his later works were particularly so due to his failing eyesight. Hmm.
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They for sure are because his eye site failed. In fact I have a post coming next week entitled Monet, the Late years which came to the De Young in San Francisco. Is that the same exhibition coming to Denver by chance? If it is, you MUST GO. Because it was spectacular. Stay tuned for my post on Monday. Thank you for the comment. This was a special one for me both back in Paris and my upcoming De Young post.
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Very cool, have to say I’m a bit jealous all I’ve seen are his haystacks.
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Oh you must search them out as part of your travels. You won’t be disappointed.
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Giverny always reminds me of the time I went there with my dad. He wasn’t a sentimental person and not too many things or places impressed him but he seemed to have loved Giverny.
You look very pretty in one of the photos!
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Ah thank you! I was happy!
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When we lived in our sticks n bricks home, I had posters (large and small) that I purchased from the Chicago Art Museum professionally framed. My children grew up surrounded by French Impressionism art. Monet will always be my favorite.
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How wonderful! Have you seen the original of that piece?
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The Chicago Art Institute has so many amazing originals including Water Lilies. Returning to the museum with my children when they were in college (after they studied classical art) was so much fun. They never realized that the art they grew up around were classics.
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That’s super neat!
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I like Monet. I’ll be sure to stay tuned. 🙂 –Curt
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Great pictures. Including a great one of you.
You know Monet grew slowly blind at the end of his life, right?
I think he may have been painting then by memory.
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Yes they mentioned his health and eye issues which certainly led to the blurry images for sure. All the more interesting to me.
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For sure. It seems he managed to “compensate” his loss of eyesight (which today would be fixed in a simple operation) with brighter colours and different strokes.
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I wonder what art he would have made if his eye site had remained? Would it have been better or worse? Who knows? I love the later works.
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🙂
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