Monet
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
~Claude Monet
The Studio Boat, 1874
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment
~Claude Monet
I just added three videos of the art works of Claude Monet on YouTube to celebrate my 100th post on Pronk Palisades:
Monet Part 1
Monet Part 2
Monet Part 3
I hope you all enjoy them, as I did making them.
The music is from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 Pastoral.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having becoming a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet
Water Lilies, 1915-1917
The Stroll Camille Monet and Her Son, 1875
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
~Claude Monet
Background Articles and Videos
The Impressionists BBC (Part 1)
The Stroll Camille Monet and Her Son, 1875
The Impressionists BBC (Part 2)
The Impressionists BBC (Part 3)
