Monet and Nature Conference

Conference: Monet and Nature
3 November 2012, 2 PM
SSM Gallery Conference Hall

Nature plays a vital role in Monet’s work. What began as an artistic search for original motifs and devotion to plein-air painting evolved into a lifelong passion – Nature simply becomes the inspiration Monet cannot work without. This growing love and dependence of nature’s shapes, colours and ever changing appearance is reflected directly in the different types of ‘Landscapes’ Monet produces; he paints the ‘wild’ nature, the ‘domesticated’ nature and his own ‘private’ nature – the famous garden in Giverny.

Nature in Monet’s work is a vision and an artistic base he evolves his work around all his life – from the early cityscapes of the 1870s to the iconic water lilies of the 1890s. Monet’s painting becomes almost abstract, but there is still Nature in them – even when it does not appear ‘natural’ anymore, but have purple tree-stems, pink water surfaces or a sky in several hues of green and blue.

The exhibition Monet’s Garden now held at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in corporation with the Marmottan Monet Museum includes the different types of nature Monet painted. These works will be the focus of this talk.

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Monet and Nature Conference

Monet and Nature Conference

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