to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels
~Lisel Mueller, "Monet Refuses the Operation"
On my sixteenth birthday, my French class took a trip to Washington D.C. to see Les Miserables and visit a French Impressionism exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. What a birthday that was! I couldn't see Les Mis well (my seat wasn't very good), but the Impressionists were a spectacular gift.
The world around me may be snow-covered, but we can always visit greener venues:
Le Bassin des Nympheas
by Claude Monet
Chemin Montant
by Gustave Caillebotte
A Rest in Rotten Row, Hyde Park
by Rose Maynard Barton
The Basket Chair
by Berthe Morisot
Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden, 1883
by Berthe Morisot
Summer, 1909
by Frank Weston Benson
Banks of the Yerres
by Gustave Caillebotte
Le jardin aux pavots
by Robert Antoine Pinchon
In case you want to read all of Monet Refuses the Operation, here's the link.
ReplyDeleteI've loved Impressionists painting ever since I saw a work by Renoir for the first time. (No, it wasn't an original, just a print, but still....)
Glad to see that you've included some lesser-known Impressionists. I think that Berthe Morisot did some excellent work.
And I think that Summer 1909 by Frank Weston Benson is fantastic!
I've loved the impressionists, especially American Impressionism, for ages. But had never read the poem Money Refuses the Operation. Wow, it surprised me, the emotions it invoked! Powerful and touching. Thank you for sharing that.
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