Claude Monet (1840~ 1926.12.5) 過世，胡適旅英，日記有剪報。克勞德·莫奈1889年的照片，幾年前他做出了一個徹底改變他一生的決定：搬到吉維尼這個小村莊。

  

這是克勞德·莫奈1889年的照片，幾年前他做出了一個徹底改變他一生的決定：搬到吉維尼這個小村莊。

1883年5月，莫內帶著他的兩個兒子米歇爾和讓，以及龐大的霍舍德家族，在吉維尼定居下來。當時的吉維尼非常小，只有279位居民，遠離主要的鐵路線。莫奈幾乎是偶然發現了這個地方，那是一次探索之旅，他乘坐從韋爾農出發的小火車，並在鄉村漫步。被迫離開普瓦西的家後，他渴望穩定、寬敞和陽光。

他很快就愛上了這裡的風景：盛開的果園、濕潤草地上盛開的黃色鳶尾花，以及覆蓋著葡萄藤和農作物的綿延山丘。 1883年4月，莫內注意到一座名為「Le Pressoir」的廢棄農場，它曾經用來釀造蘋果酒。粉紅色的牆壁和灰色的百葉窗在周圍的房屋中格外醒目，這種色彩選擇源於前房主的故鄉瓜德羅普島。莫內於1883年5月3日租下了這棟房子，並幾乎立即搬了進去。

這處房產包括一個大型封閉式花園，以及足夠的空間讓莫內在一間舊穀倉裡建造他的第一個工作室。儘管花園需要大量修繕，莫內卻立刻看到了它的潛力。 43歲的他終於找到了歸宿。他將在吉維尼生活43年，克服經濟困境，並在那裡達到藝術生涯的巔峰。

Ars Europa

Above a burning pyre, King Sardanapalus, draped in white, reclines on a sumptuous jewel-inlaid bed adorned with gilded elephant heads and covered with scarlet fabric, as his cruel sentence is carried out. This complex, superhuman figure, both judge and executioner, actor and spectator, lies semi-recumbent on the bed, one hand supporting his head. With his beard and turban, he resembles a Mughal or Qajar sultan, while his pose evokes a classical statue, a figure by Michelangelo, Delacroix’s Michelangelo in his Studio, Rembrandt’s Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, or Heraclitus in Raphael’s School of Athens. The force of the composition matches the violence of the event; the subject matter, architectural setting, dramatic technique and tension, theatrical effects of light, and gestures of fear evoke the work of English painters such as Turner, William Etty, and John Martin. The painting is surprising too for the daring of its foreshortened perspective, for the effects of light, and for the cool, clear colors that propel the heart of the scene toward the viewer. The painting features a diagonal - emphasized by the flames of the pyre and the sensually writhing bodies - that crosses from bottom right to top left, its colors gradually changing from a deep red to a pearly pink against which the creamy flesh of the naked bodies and the raw white of the king's drapery are accentuated. As the city burns in the distance, the palace seems swept away on a raging wave that destroys all notion of hierarchy, gender, species, and rank. All logic is lost as masters, soldiers, slaves, men, women, animals, bodies, objects, attitudes, movements, materials, life, and death are tangled together in piteous disarray, brutally cast into the furnace because of the king's arrogant refusal to surrender. Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, oil on canvas, Louvre Museum, Paris.

Claude Monet (1840~ 1926.12.5) 過世，胡適旅英，日記有剪報

Famous French Artists

1. Claude Monet

Claude Monet is arguably the most famous French artist of all time. His waterlilies are famous throughout the world and are studied in elementary schools globally.

Claude Monet was born in 1840 and passed away in 1926. He is best known as the founder of the impressionism movement. Furthermore, Claude Monet was the driving force behind this revolution in the world of art.

He was also the most consistent practitioner of the movement. The name is actually taken from a work he completed which was titled Impressionism, Sunrise which is often referred to as one of the most famous French paintings ever produced.

Claude Monet was known as a master of light. He had the ability to paint the same subject over and over again yet creating a completely different work of art because of his skills.

He is universally acknowledged as the best impressionist artists and his work is held as the standard that all others are judged by.

Claude Monet is best known for his series of water lilies, which he painted between 1896 and 1926. He also published series that explored smoke, steam, rain, and mist. His prolific collection contains around 250 works.

Monet 1926.12.5 過世，胡適旅英，12.6日記有剪報

Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.Wikipedia

Born: November 14, 1840, 9th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France

Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny, France

On view: Musée d'Orsay, National Gallery of Art, MORE

Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism

Spouse: Alice Hoschedé (m. 1892–1911), Camille Doncieux (m. 1870–1879)

Children: Jean Monet, Michel Monet

Quotes

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

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Photo of Claude Monet in his studio in Giverny, 1923




幕后故事



1926年的今天，著名画家莫奈去世。 Theresa Bonney/The New York Times

《纽约时报》当时的标题简洁平实：《克劳德·莫奈去世：著名画家》(Claude Monet dies; famous painter)。

这位法国艺术家于1926年的今天去世一周后，一篇时报的文章更加感情洋溢地赞扬莫奈是“艺术史上与一个概念，关于光线的概念紧密相连的著名人物之一”。

莫奈生于1840年，他因户外风景及再造光线的效果而著名，无论是睡莲、干草垛还是欧洲各大城市。

他在1870年代帮助建立的印象派运动的名称来源于《印象：日出》(Impression, Sunrise)，这是他描绘法国勒阿弗尔港口画作的名称。印象派这个称呼是一名评论人为了嘲讽而造出的，后来被莫奈及其他印象派画家所使用，其中包括皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿(Pierre-Auguste Renoir)及卡米耶·毕沙罗(Camille Pissarro)。

在他去世近一个世纪后，莫奈仍引人遐想。去年，他的画作《干草堆》(Meule)拍得8140万美元，其中包括佳士得的佣金，这在他的作品拍卖中创了新高。这幅描绘日落时分干草垛的画作反映着这位艺术家长久以来对光线的迷恋。

“这些水面和倒影的景象让我着迷，”莫奈在1909年写道。“作为一个老人，我无法触及它们，但我想将自己的感受表现出来。”



“Radiant inspiration to the very end” – The Wall Street Journal, 2019
Claude Monet in his studio at Giverny in 1920.
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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) | The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest | 1865





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"Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence" presents 19th century artists who celebrated the out-of-doors as a place of leisure, renewal, and inspiration during an era when France played host to innovative movements – both artistic and green. https://met.org/2spWuUM
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) | The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest | 1865

 1926年的今天，莫內（Claude Monet，1840年11月14日－1926年12月5日） 過世於法國吉維尼，享年86歲。

莫內是印象派代表人物和創始人之一。印象派一詞即出自其代表作《印象•日出》的標題。莫內是法國最重要的畫家之一，印象派的理論和實踐大部份都有他的推廣。莫內擅長光與影的實驗與表現技法。他最重要的風格是改變了陰影和輪廓線的畫法，在莫內的畫作中看不到非常明確的陰影，也看不到突顯或平塗式的輪廓線。除此之外，莫內對於色彩的運用相當細膩，他用許多相同主題的畫作來實驗色彩與光完美的表達。莫內曾長期探索光色與空氣的表現效果，常常在不同的時間和光線下，對同一對象作多幅的描繪，從自然的光色變幻中抒發瞬間的感覺。

（資料整理自維基百科，圖片來自於網路）