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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the first artists to move his studio out into the open air, creating works which continue to fascinate and inspire us today as much as they did his contemporaries. One of the founding fathers of Impressionist art, Monet's works consistently reflect the artist's profound love of nature. Many of his paintings were directly inspired by the gardens that played such an important role in his life--the garden at his house in Sèvres in the 1860s, those at his two homes in Argenteuil in the 1870s, followed by a garden at his estate in Vétheuil. Yet the most famous of Monet's gardens was the expansive park in Giverny, which inspired his masterful handling of light and color for more than thirty years and provided motifs for hundreds of individual paintings and series that remain immensely popular today--among them the masterpieces of his Water-Lilies series. This magnificent volume of full-page color plates is devoted to this central theme in the work of the French artist. It presents landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of people in natural settings from nearly all of Monet's creative periods--from his early Impressionist paintings of the 1870s to the Grandes Décorations of the early 1900s. Also included are photographs of Monet's gardens, diagramatic recreations of these spaces (based on the artist's paintings), several bills of delivery and planting instructions from horticulturalists.

I work constantly and lovingly on my garden. What I need most are flowers, always, always. My heart is always in Giverny.

--Claude Monet

Essays by Christophe Becker, Catherine Hug, Monika Leonhardt, and Linda Schädler.

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monet by frank milner
This is a fine illustrated book and I am excited about following the art work. ... Read more

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Explores the lives and works of the world's greatest artists. This title takes readers inside each artist's studio to learn about the people, places and events that had the biggest influences on their careers. It also discovers how artists work had an impact, not only on the times in which they lived but also on our world. ... Read more

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In a garden of spectacular beauty in Giverny, France, Claude Monet painted flowers. Dazzled by the light, he painted with rich colors of vermilion, emerald, and violet. His poppies, tulips, irises, and waterlilies have awed the world. In her radiant watercolors, Bijou Le Tord uses Monet's own palette of only eight colors. Her magnificent paintings and poetic words celebrate the extraordinary vision of the beloved impressionist painter, Claude Monet. ... Read more

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Celebration of Art
When fall comes, so do the books.It is approximated that almost 2,000 children's books will be printed this fall.Of this mass number, perhaps ahandful--a very small handful-- are actually worth reading to a young childnight after night.Bijou Le Tord's A Blue Butterfly: A Story about ClaudeMonet, is part of this handful.

The book came out in 1995, yet it stillholds my attention and respect.What sets this book apart from otherbiographies about the artist and other children's books is its celebratorynature.Its luminescent art work invites parents and children to revisitthe art and life of Claude Monet.It captures the essence of art in itswarm colors, creating a soft aura of beauty that encloses the reader evenafter the book is finished.

Anybody interested in sharing art with ayoung child or sharing the life of an artist should purchase this book. Not only do readers learn about an early twentieth century artist, but theyalso get to share in the joy of a contemporary artist, Bijou Le Tord.

Monet appreciation for children!
I have always been bedazzled by Monet's painting and his home, Giverny. This book is another wonderful way to share Monet's gifts with youngchildren. As a first-grade teacher, I appreciate the ideas suggested by theteacher below who shared her method for offering Monet toyoung children.An exceptional treasure to enjoy over and over again!

Lovely little book, a great intro to Monet for the young
My 5 yr old daughter and I picked this up at the library and what a find!This is a book of delightful watercolor illustrations of Monet out in the field, in a garden, by the sea.The pictures are so pleasant and veryreminiscent of Monet's work, and the few lines that accompany the drawingsare perfect for young children. I heartily recommend this book.

First Grade Monet
The book is written in the style of a poem.The poem tells a lot about Monet, where he painted and what he painted.The author also painted the illustrations, which are beautiful.She includes Monet in theillustrations.I read this book to a class of first graders and they lovedit.We then attempted to make our own Monet paintings by using our fingertips. (They used their finger tips to cover an entire page with color) Thechildren were inspired by the book and the illustrations. I felt that thebook provided a lot of basic information about Monet and is great learningtool for young children. ... Read more

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Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings. ... Read more

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Taking readers to Monet's private gardens at Giverny--the subject of many of his finest landscape paintings--this collection of beautifully evocative modern photos depicts how the appearance of Giverny changes over the course of all four seasons. An informative text accompanies 35 photos and illustrations. ... Read more

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The Art for Young People Series is a wonderful way forchildren to get to know the people behind the paintings. Throughcolorful narrative, pictures, maps, photos, and more, kids willdiscover that art is an exciting and interesting way to explore theworld.

Claude Monet is remembered for painting his "impression" of a scene,from the entrancing blues and greens of lily pads in a pond to glowinghaystacks in a field. He spent years studying the effects of light andcolor as the days and seasons passed, and is thought of as the fatherof the "Impressionist" movement.Here's a chance for kids to meet thepeople who taught Monet--Eugene Boudin, Johan Jongkind, andothers--and see how their paintings are similar to his own. Follow himfrom the harbor in Le Havre to the Gare St. Lazare train station inParis, to his home in Giverny, and see how he captured each of theseplaces in his paintings. Find out what it was like to be an artist inParis during the late 1800s, and mingle with Monet and others likeRenoir and Pissarro at their studios. Kids will see many of Monet'spictures, meet his family and friends, and much more through thesecolorfully narrated and illustrated pages. ... Read more

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Claude Monet (1840-1926), one of the founders of French Impressionism, is one of the most popular painters in the history of art. In his paintings, he repeatedly focused his gaze upon the shifting phenomena of water, light, and mist. In a dramatically new interpretation of the artist's work, noted Monet scholar Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, uses the myth of Narcissus to interpret Monet's painting of reflection in water as the mirror of the artist's encounter with himself.
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A brief biography of one of the founders of the Impressionist school of painting. ... Read more

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Examining Monet's response to places where he lived and traveled, a collection of images studies the links between artist and surroundings, including the paintings of the Seine, his garden at Giverny, and the Houses of Parliament from Westminster Bridge. ... Read more

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These 40 paintings follow Claude Monet’s progress through years of landscapes, tracking changes in his work and making the case that fields and meadows may have been his most revealing theme. Starting in 1873, Monet began painting the fields around Argenteuil with occasional human subjects--his first wife Camille and their small boy Jean--in close brushwork that brought out a vibrating tension, large-scale liveliness. The series of Seine landscapes upon which he embarked in 1878, around the area of Vétheuil, compared the river’s untouched meadows to that cultivated farmland. Canvases from the spring of 1880 contain a particularly palpable joy on the renewal of the land after a very hard winter. And it was after relocating to Giverny in 1883--a move that coincided with the increasing establishment of the Impressionist movement as the most important development in French art of that era--that Monet painted the work from which this monograph takes its name, his 1887 Fields in Spring, with its crucially austere organization of surfaces and highly systematic palette. It was a turning point in his oeuvre, a mingling of severity and simplification that brought incomparably harmonious effect and the unbroken admiration of his colleagues. This concise study closes with the fascinating paintings of 1894 in which Monet perfected this systematic approach. ... Read more

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An exploration of the world of Monet and his fellow Impressionists, portrayed through contemporary letters and comments, sketches, rare photographs and cartoons. ... Read more

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From one of the greatest Impresssionists, 24 works that magnificently recreate the effects of light and shifting color. Includes La Plage à Trouville, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny, The Water Lily Pond, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Pont de L:’Europe (Gare St. Lazare), Repose (Madame Monet on a Sofa), Sailboats at Argenteuil, and 17 others—perfect for sending brief messages to art-loving friends.
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Monet reminders
This collection of Monet paintings in card form is for Monet lovers.The cost is a small price to pay for the convenient reminder of Monet's wonderful talent.

The collection can be kept in a group or sprinkled around several places in the home for pleasure viewing.My collection has its place in the library.

Well done Amazon.

Richard Glenister
Gold Coast Australia

A Genius
This book show us a real Genius working. We can see in this book all life that his paints show, in a very critic aspect, with great history beside each one. It is wonderful. I'm brasilian and I fell in love for this book. ... Read more