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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Monet's Garden

I stumbled upon a print of a Monet painting, "The artist's garden at Giverny" that I really loved right away.  After researching it I found that there were countless copies of this painting that didn't look quite right.  I finally found one that I think is the original, it's from an art book scan and is listed in Wikimedia Commons. 

This painting exemplifies Monet's "broken color" technique, and the color palette is not as bold and bright as is usually seen in its many copies.

Monet, Le jardin de l'artiste a Giverny (1900)

"The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all is said and done, a matter of habit."  -Claude Monet