IN MONET'S GARDEN: THE LURE OF GIVERNY
Like a pond. With as many twists and turns as Langston Hughes "Rivers." --That's the way
Claude Monet's gardens and ponds will meander thru the upper realms of The Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street, until January 20, 2008.
The show contains evrything from geometric abstraction to romantic impressionismto inventive garden scenes. Wall charts, audios, and photos, present and past present the chronology and connections of Monet's life and art! The melange of art and events works very very well.
Will Cotton's brazen "Flannpond " (New York, NewYork, 2002) attracted a lot of attention when I was there. --Monet did love cooking, you know--And over the years the ponds and the gardens and art groupies and Impressionism itself have gone through various phases of dishab ille and rejuvenation. Not to mention two world wars. Flannond shimmers with double entendres, many meanings.--Andthis is a marvelous show to look at!
Monet's colors--as in "The Artist's Garden, 1900," --are earthy, but not of this world.
Monet's brush strokes bear the chalky warmth of Degas'pastels, yet they are oils.
Monet's Field of Irises,-- they are Yellow Irises--is flat, layered, like farmland strung with jewels.--Some of Monet's lovely scenes become less abstract when you step back from them
and more abstract when you stand up close! And, of course, you'll see the legendary water Lilies, the Nympheas, which shimmer, float, and threaten to disappear.
Some of Han Xin's work is exhibited close to the Monet exhibit. Han Xin is a world class painter. A few years back I asked him, "how are you able to make your Giverny tributes shimmer without using gold or silver?" After some thought he answered:
"I was trained to draw. I can draw fountains. Light, shadows. With a pencil, graphite.
I think that has something to do with the way I can make my paintings seem to shine. Like water. "
The Giverny exhibit includes photographs of Monet and his blended family. In one tiny photograph we see Monet's earnest step daughter who, with her stepfather's guidance,
became a painter too! In a lovely painting, La Debacle, painted in 1892 by
Theodore Robinson, we see a well dressed, straw-chapeaued woman resting on a low garden wall. We know by the length and breadth of her hobbled skirt , that she has paused, letter in hand, to think of a lost love, perhaps, before the First World War.
Monet's history at Giverny blossoms with water lilies, flows like a river, and gleams like a pond. The Columbus Museum of Art is at 480 East Broad Street,614-221-4848.
www.columbus Museum.com
Transcribed on December 13, this post will continue with
"Tributaries and Gilda Edwards " and "Edna Boies Throws a Party!"
Claude Monet's gardens and ponds will meander thru the upper realms of The Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street, until January 20, 2008.
The show contains evrything from geometric abstraction to romantic impressionismto inventive garden scenes. Wall charts, audios, and photos, present and past present the chronology and connections of Monet's life and art! The melange of art and events works very very well.
Will Cotton's brazen "Flannpond " (New York, NewYork, 2002) attracted a lot of attention when I was there. --Monet did love cooking, you know--And over the years the ponds and the gardens and art groupies and Impressionism itself have gone through various phases of dishab ille and rejuvenation. Not to mention two world wars. Flannond shimmers with double entendres, many meanings.--Andthis is a marvelous show to look at!
Monet's colors--as in "The Artist's Garden, 1900," --are earthy, but not of this world.
Monet's brush strokes bear the chalky warmth of Degas'pastels, yet they are oils.
Monet's Field of Irises,-- they are Yellow Irises--is flat, layered, like farmland strung with jewels.--Some of Monet's lovely scenes become less abstract when you step back from them
and more abstract when you stand up close! And, of course, you'll see the legendary water Lilies, the Nympheas, which shimmer, float, and threaten to disappear.
Some of Han Xin's work is exhibited close to the Monet exhibit. Han Xin is a world class painter. A few years back I asked him, "how are you able to make your Giverny tributes shimmer without using gold or silver?" After some thought he answered:
"I was trained to draw. I can draw fountains. Light, shadows. With a pencil, graphite.
I think that has something to do with the way I can make my paintings seem to shine. Like water. "
The Giverny exhibit includes photographs of Monet and his blended family. In one tiny photograph we see Monet's earnest step daughter who, with her stepfather's guidance,
became a painter too! In a lovely painting, La Debacle, painted in 1892 by
Theodore Robinson, we see a well dressed, straw-chapeaued woman resting on a low garden wall. We know by the length and breadth of her hobbled skirt , that she has paused, letter in hand, to think of a lost love, perhaps, before the First World War.
Monet's history at Giverny blossoms with water lilies, flows like a river, and gleams like a pond. The Columbus Museum of Art is at 480 East Broad Street,614-221-4848.
www.columbus Museum.com
Transcribed on December 13, this post will continue with
"Tributaries and Gilda Edwards " and "Edna Boies Throws a Party!"
posted by Liz James at 11:56 AM
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