Monet Poppies
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Monet Poppies
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Poppies, Claude Monet, 1873.
When he returned from England in 1871, Monet settled in Argenteuil and lived there until 1878. These years were a time of fulfillment for him. Supported by his dealer, Monet found around his home the bright landscapes which enabled him to explore the potential of plein-air painting.
He showed Poppy Field to the public at the first Impressionist exhibition held in 1874. Now one of the world's most famous paintings, it conjures up the vibrant atmosphere of a stroll through the fields on a summer's day.
Monet diluted the contours and constructed a colorful rhythm with blobs of paint starting from a sprinkling of poppies; the disproportionately large patches in the foreground indicate the primacy he put on visual impression. A step towards abstraction had been taken.
In the landscape, a mother and child pair in the foreground and another in the background are just the pretext for drawing the diagonal line that structures the painting. Two separate color zones are established, one dominated by red, the other by a bluish green. The young woman with the sunshade and the child in the foreground are probably the artist's wife, Camille, and their son Jean.
This painting can be admired at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France.
As for Paris... what can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said...?
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November 3rd, 2020
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