https://travelingboy.com/travel/monet-in-giverny-down-the-seine-to-normandyon-the-amalyra-part-ii/ Traveling Adventures Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://travelingboy.com/travel/monet-in-giverny-down-the-seine-to-normandyon-the-amalyra-part-ii/#comment-27508 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 02:45:10 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=32878#comment-27508 Thank you, Mr. Raoul. I appreciate your kind words and personal narrative about your life in art. It appears that I could learn much from you.

]]> https://travelingboy.com/travel/monet-in-giverny-down-the-seine-to-normandyon-the-amalyra-part-ii/#comment-27507 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:20:03 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=32878#comment-27507 I loved this article. I never knew Monet’s disdain for the social niceties. I love your inside story about the garden and his bouts with his wife and neighbors. Your article brings back memories of Art School where my teacher explained the rationale behind the color renditions to produce an optical illusion. Being an artist myself I didn’t quite grasp the fuss about impressionists. To me they were haphazardly done — meaning, I could whip up something like this easily (as opposed to the finished works of Caravaggio or Vermeer). In my younger days I was always in “I can do that” mode. I’d like to think I’ve matured and though I still struggle with judging pieces of art by the difficulty of execution, I have learned to appreciate the significance of what makes something great. Indeed, the impressionists have left a respectable impression with me.

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