Image Gallery: Monet in Normandy
Sunday November 5, 2006
Fellow About Guide Sandy Mitchell has created another image gallery for a Cleveland Museum of Art traveling exhibition. This time, we are tantalized with ten of some 50 sumptuous Monet seascapes included in Monet in Normandy. Little known fact: Monet's father was a wholesale grocer in Le Harve who catered to the maritime trade, and young Claude grew up with very vivid impressions (ha!) of the sea.
Monet would return to Normandy from Paris again and again over the course of his years, usually to happily paint the coastline en plein-air (though there was the one unhappy time in 1867 that he fled to his family in poverty, sheltered only on the strict condition that his pregnant model/mistress, Camille Doncieux, did not accompany him to Le Harve ... and became so distressed with how life was going at this time that he temporarily lost nearly all of his eyesight ... hysterical blindness, no less, and could you really blame him? ... but! I digress ...). If you, like I, could study Monets all day any day simply trying to figure out where the sun was (or wasn't) in the sky over the artist's shoulder, you'll be sure to enjoy Sandy's gallery, Monet in Normandy.
Monet would return to Normandy from Paris again and again over the course of his years, usually to happily paint the coastline en plein-air (though there was the one unhappy time in 1867 that he fled to his family in poverty, sheltered only on the strict condition that his pregnant model/mistress, Camille Doncieux, did not accompany him to Le Harve ... and became so distressed with how life was going at this time that he temporarily lost nearly all of his eyesight ... hysterical blindness, no less, and could you really blame him? ... but! I digress ...). If you, like I, could study Monets all day any day simply trying to figure out where the sun was (or wasn't) in the sky over the artist's shoulder, you'll be sure to enjoy Sandy's gallery, Monet in Normandy.
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My film Monet’s Palate - A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny with Meryl Streep, Alice Waters, Daniel Boulud, Joachim Pissarro, Steve Wynn, Roger Verge. Michel Richard and Remy Funfrock will have the honor of being shown on a number of occasions during the Monet in Normandy Exhibit at The Cleveland Museum of Art thanks to the Museum’s Director of films..John Ewing - Aileen Bordman
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