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Art Sunday: Claude Monet – Le Jardin de l’artiste à Giverny


The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l’artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life. The painting shows rows of irises in various shades of purple and pink set diagonally across the picture plane. The flowers are under trees that in allowing dappled light through change the tone of their colours. Beyond the trees is a glimpse of Monet’s house.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Garden_at_Giverny

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Art Sunday: John Singer Sargent – The Black Brook


John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.  He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent

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Art Sunday: Alphonse Mucha – Spring

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The Seasons, published in 1896, served as the first series Mucha produced during his time with Champenois. The Seasons depicted four different women in floral settings representing the seasons of the year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn.[8] Each panel was sized 103 × 54 cm.

Each of the seasons has a characteristic flair to their allegorical depictions. Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter are portrayed as innocent, sultry, fruitful, and frosty, respectively.

Summer is adorned with red poppies in her hair, the figure is seen leaning on a grapevine and bathing her feet in shallow water. Autumn is depicted as a wearing a wreath of chrysanthemums in her brunette hair. She is also seen gathering grapes from a vine. Mucha represents Spring as a blonde figure in a translucent white dress standing under a tree and holding a lyre. Meanwhile, Winter is depicted as a figure draped in a pale green cape and sheltering from the cold, standing next to a snow-capped bush.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seasons_(Mucha)