You can imagine that in the midst of Canadian urban jungle suddenly blooming poppy field? It sounds implausible, but there is nothing impossible for the world of art. Yes, and the precedents were already: not so long ago, in the color of the city, there was Maks in Montreal - this already peculiar continuation of the flower tradition.

Creator "Flower" installation - artist and architect Claude Cormier (Claude Cormier), an ardent fan of impressionism. Love for the polls Claude Monet Once he inspired him to create, which resembled blooming wisteria. The current creation in Montreal is a tribute and admiration for the "poppies" of the Great Artist. Recall that Claude Monet tirelessly painted the green expanses of the giver, destroyed by almy flowers, from his paintings, you can compile a whole "poppy" cycle.

To create installation, 5060 red, green and white markers were required, which were littered by an alley in front of the museum of fine arts. The work of Cordier Cordier is part of the annual exhibition. Everyone will be able to admire the luxurious poppy field in the middle of the Asphalt Sea.

By the way, the works of the famous impressionist are not the first time inspiring artists to create works of art. We have already acquainted our readers with, resembling a "blue house in Calandam", as well as a series of advertising posters, on one of which Monte is depicted with one more beloved flowers - water lily.

Claude Monet. Macs. 1773 Museum d'Orsov, Paris

"Maki", one of the most famous works of Claude Monet, I saw in. However, then did not consider it as it should. I, like a fan, just sneak eyes from all those masterpieces that in this museum!

Later, of course, I have already considered "Maki" as it should. And I found that I didn't even notice a few interesting details in the museum. If you look at the picture more closely, you will probably have at least three questions:

1. Why are the poppies of such large sizes?
2. Why did Monet portray two almost identical pairs of figures?
3. Why did the artist drew the sky in the picture?

I will answer these questions in order.

1. Why are the poppies are so big?

Poppies are shown very large. Most of them - with the head of the depicted child. And if you take poppies from the back plan and bring closer to the figures in the foreground, they will also be larger than the head as a child and the depicted woman. What is such unrealistic?

In my opinion, the size of Macs Monet consciously increased: so he once again preferred to convey a vivid visual impression, and not realistic objects of the objects.

Here, by the way, you can spend parallel with its technique of water lisms in late works.

Look for visibility to fragments of paintings with waterways of different years (1899-1926). Upper work is the earliest (1899), the Lower - the Latest (1926). Obviously, with the time of the pita, they became more abstract and less painted in detail.

Apparently "Maki" is only a precursor of the prevalence of abstractionism in the later pictures of Monet.

Pictures of Claude Monet. 1. Top Left: Waterproofs. 1899 G. Private collection. 2. At the top of the right: pita. 1908 G. Private collection. 3. In the middle: pond with water lily. 1919 Metropolitan Museum, New York. 4. At the bottom: Lilies. 1926 Museum of the Art of Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City.

2. Why is two pairs of identical figures in the picture?

It turns out that it was also important for Monet to show movement in her picture. He achieved this in an unusual way, depicting a bare-looking path on a hill among colors, as if the figures trottened between two pairs.

At the bottom of the hill with poppies depicted the wife of Camilla and Son Jean. Camilla is traditionally depicted with a green umbrella, as well as in the picture "Woman with an umbrella".

Upstairs on the hillock - another couple of women and children, for whom Most likely posed Camilla with her son. Therefore, two pairs are like that.

Claude Monet. Macs. Fragment. 1873 Museum d'Ors, Paris.

This pair of figures on a hill is mapped exclusively for the visual effect of the movement, to which the Monte sought.

3. Why didn't Monet drawn the sky?

Another remarkable moment in: Pay attention, as the sky is badly drawn up to the bare parts of the canvas.

Claude Monet. Macs. Fragment. 1873

Great French Artist-Impressionist Claude Monet ( OSCAR-CLAUDE MONET), (1840-1926) really loved to draw flowers. He wrote flowers throughout his life, in different periods of creativity. More often gardens and wildflowers, less often cut flowers in vases.

Flowers were his passion. Monet said that most of all in life he loves two things: painting and gardening. Therefore, he felt the greatest pleasure when the flowers depicted in his paintings.

Even his family members he always wrote surrounded by flowers, thereby emphasizing his sincere love for them.

"Perhaps it is thanks to the colors, I became an artist," said Claude Monet about himself.

One of the early works of Claude Monet "Women in the Garden", 1866-1867, Museum Orsa, Paris.

The figures of women are shown on this canvas very stylized. The whole accent artist does on the game of light and shadows, on the foliage of trees and colors. Monet is still looking for its own style, to the official date of the origin of impressionism remains for another five years.
The model for all three women served 19-year-old Camilla Donal, the future wife of Claude Monet.

The canvas is very large, its dimensions are 2.05 by 2.55 m.
The artist intended to set this picture at the Paris Salon in 1967, but the jury rejected him.

At the end of the life of Claude Monet, when he was already a recognized and famous master, the French government bought in 1921 a picture of the "Women in the Garden" by the artist for 200 thousand francs.

Saint and andress

"Terrace in Saint Andress", approx. 1867, Metropolitan Museum, New York. This picture shows the artist's family who lived in the small port town of Saint Andresse near the Gold on the coast of Normandy. In the chairs, the father of Monet and his aunt Madame Lekad are sitting. At the railings there is a distant relative of Monet Jeanne Margarita with a young man. It can be said that this is a family scene against the background of the marine landscape. But see how flowers are drawn in the foreground paintings! As a successful Monet handed the texture of the colors and the game of light and shadows.
"Blooming Garden in Saint and Andress", approx. 1866, Orsa Museum, Paris.
"Adolf Monet, reading in the garden le-cato in Saint and Andress," OK. 1866
"Lady in the Garden", 1867, State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The picture shows the distant relative of Claude Monet Zhanna-Margarita Lekador in the garden in Saint-Andress.

Argente, 1872 - 1977

Claude Monet always wanted to have his own garden, wherever he could safely work at the captivity.

At the end of 1871, Claude Monet with his family settled in Argentee. Then it was a small resort village near Paris, 12 km from the city center, located on the picturesque seach of the Seine. Now Argentey is included in Big Paris. In Argente, Monet had his own home and her first garden. It seems to me that it was in Argenthe that the best paintings of Claude Monet were created. It was the brightest period of his work. In Monet, painting is generally bright, but it is in Arzhante his canvas simply shine joy. Apparently, these were the happiest years of his life. Almost on all the canvases written in Argente, depicted Camilla, the favorite first wife of Claude Monet.

In those years, Arzhante was a favorite place of rest, Parisians, sailing regatta were held regularly. In Argenty, the railway was led, it was possible to get from Paris quickly and easily. Not only monet, but also other artists-Impressionists Mane, Renoir, Sisley, Kaibott wrote their landscapes in Argente.

Friend of the artist Renoir imprinted him at work in Argente, and thanks to this we can see what the garden of Claude Monet was represented, and as he wrote at the pleasing. Pierre Auguste Renoir "Monet, drawing in his garden in Argentee", 1873
And Eduard mana wrote a family portrait of an artist against a flowering garden background. Eduard Mana "Monet Family in his garden in Argente", 1874, Metropolitan Museum, New York. The picture shows Claude Monet, caring for flowers, his wife Camilla and Son Jean. Garden, flowers and chickens. After 10 years, all this will be in Claude Monet in the giver.
Pierre Auguste Renoir "Madame Monet and her son", 1974. National Gallery, Washington. Camilla Monet and her son Jean. It seems that Eduard Mana and Renoir wrote a month of Monet and the same day and in the same place. This canvas was kept in the meeting of Claude Monet to the Giverni. The younger son of the artist Michel Monet sold it in 1952 during the period of complete destruction in the giver. After several resale in the will of the last owner in 1970, this picture entered the National Gallery in Washington.

"House of Artist in Argentee", 1873. Institute of Arts, Chicago.
"Garden Monet in Argente", 1873
"Houses in Argentee", 1873, Old National Gallery, Berlin. In the summer, Arzhante literally drowned in colors.
"Flowers on the river bank in Argentee", 1877, the museum of the Arts of Paul (Pola Museum of Art), Khakon, Japan. Sena in Argentee is very picturesque, in this place it forms a beautiful emitting. Claude Monet was fascinated by the River and Nature of Argentei, he worked with the Eustice here at the Plenuel.
"Camilla Monta on the Bench in the garden." 1873 year. Metropolitan Museum, New York. As always, the garden, and as always - flowers. Please note: on the bench next to Camilla lies a bouquet of flowers.
"Jean Monet on a horse-bike." 1872 year. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Even drawing a portrait of a son, Claude Moneta did not forget about the colors. All significant events of life, he preferred to capture on his canvases against the background of flowers.
"In the meadow", 1876 On the canvase depicts the wife of the artist Camilla Monet, reading a book in the meadow, surrounded by meadow flowers.
"Apple trees in bloom", 1873. Amazing!
"Family of the artist in the garden", 1875
"In the garden", 1875 In this picture, apparently, the same corner of the garden is depicted as on the previous one, only a few months later - in the fall. Claude Monet loved to write cycles of paintings - the same objects in different light conditions: at different times of the year, at different times of the day. He tried to transmit the fleeting states of the light-air medium, capture the barely caught halftone colors. We see how the garden corner is transformed, how dull paints, fade light. Flowers at the flower bed were confined, and foliage on the trees of yellow.
"Woman with an umbrella" ("Walk: Camilla Monet with Son Jean"), 1875, National Art Gallery, Washington.
"Camilla Monet and Son", 1875, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
"Corner garden in Monger", approx. 1876, State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Mongeron is a small town in the suburbs of Paris, located 18.5 km south-east of the city center. Now is one of the southeasternist Paris.

"Woman with an umbrella in the garden in Argente", 1875.	"Walk, Argence", 1875 year.	"Walk in Argenthe", 1875, Museum Marmotan Monet, Paris.
"Garden", 1872 year.	"Camilla Monet in the garden", 1873.	"Camilla Monet in the window. Arzhantei", 1873.
"The coast of the Seine near the bridge in Argenthe", 1874.	"Camilla and Jean Monet in the garden in Argente", 1873.	"Camilla Monet in the garden at the house in Argentee," 1876, Metropolitan Museum, New York.
"Gladiolus". OK. 1876. Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA.	"Girls in the garden", 1875, National Gallery in Prague.	"Camilla with a green umbrella", 1876.
"Gate garden in the lowest", 1876.	"Garden", 1876 year.	"Garden, Malva", 1877 year.

Very interesting series "Lilac". Compare:

Poppy fields

One of the most famous pictures of Claude Monet "Field of Poppers" (1873, the Orsha Museum, Paris) was written in Argente, not far from the artist's house. The picture shows the wife of Monet Camilla and his son Jean. Presumably, for lady figures with a child in the background also served as models of his wife and son.
See how expressively painted scarlet poppies and yellow buttercups. Camilla with Jean literally immerse in Macs, forming a complete harmony with the nature of a sunny summer day.
Monet chose a very successful angle for his picture - scarlet poppies are located in the left lower part of the picture, diagonally, along which Camilla is coming with Jean. It seems that poppies go beyond the cloves.

Poppy fields were fascinated by Monet. He repeatedly returned to them in his work. He was attracted by the contrast of red poppies and green grass.

"Summer. Machine Field", 1875, private collection.

"Poppy field near the vetea" 1879 year.

"Field of poppies in the hollow near the giver", 1885. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"Field of Poppers", around 1890. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

"Oatmeal with poppies", 1890 year. Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg.

"Field of poppies in the giver." 1890-1891 Institute of Arts, Chicago.

"Field of red poppies near the giver", 1895. Museum of Fine Arts Virginia, Richmond, USA.

Tulip fields

Claude Monet visited Holland several times. And, of course, could not remain indifferent to tulips. He created a series of paintings depicting the main attractions of the Netherlands - the fields of tulips and windmills.

"Tulips fields in Sassenemeim, near Leiden", 1886, Clark Art Institute (Clark Art Institute), Willesstown, Massachusetts, USA.

"Fields of tulips and windmills in Reinsburg", 1886, private collection.

"Tulips fields in the Netherlands", 1886. Orsha Museum, Paris.

"The field of tulips in the Netherlands." 1886, Museum Marmotan Monet, Paris.

Lytie, 1879 - 1881

"Artist's garden in the winder", 1880. National Gallery, Washington.

In 1879, the Monet family moved to the veil, a small village on the seashore of the Seine 65 km north-west of Paris. Here, Claude Monet was born the second son, Michelle, but, unfortunately, the first wife of Camilla died soon.
In the fleet, the Monet family lived until 1881.

Claude Monet converges with Alice Hoschedé's family, with whom he was already familiar for several years. They live together, afterwards Alice became his second wife. But in the pictures of Claude Mona Alisa Gosteda, unlike Camilla, is very rare. The models for the artist's canvases served her daughters, Padderitsa Claude Monet.

"Flowers on the coast of the Seine near the vetea", 1880.	"Alice Gosted in the garden", 1881. Future second wife Claude Monet.	"Staircase in the lowest", 1881.
"Island of flowers near the vetea", 1880, Metropolitan Museum, New York.	"Flowers in the lowest", 1881.	"Flowers in the lowest", 1881.

Flowers in a vase

Most of all Claude Monet loved garden and wildflowers, but sometimes wrote still life, bouquets of cut flowers.

"Spring Flowers", 1864. The location of the picture is currently not known.
Of course, it is still difficult to know the future of the great artist Impressionist in this canvas.

"Chrysanthemum", 1878 year. Orsha Museum, Paris.

"Bouquet of Malva", 1880.

"Sunflowers", 1881. Metropolitan Museum, New York.

"Chrysanthemum" 1882 year. Metropolitan Museum, New York.

"Purple Maki", 1883 year. Museum of Humanza Van Bengenna, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

"Anemones", approx. 1885, private collection.

"Two vases with chrysanthemums." 1888, private collection.

Giverni 1883 - 1926

In 1883, the family of Claude Monet moves to the giver. This is a small village in the picturesque area on the banks of the EPT River, at the place of her merger with Seine, about 80 km from Paris. In Giverni Claude Monet will live until the end of his life.

By this time, he had already become a famous artist and a completely secured person. In 1890, he was able to buy a house in the giver, in which his family lived. In the house he equipped a spacious workshop.

Claude Monet significantly expanded his garden, made a pond in it, the water in which came from a special water intake tank built on the EPT River.

In those years, Claude Monet was carried away by Japanese culture, Japanese engravings, especially engravings of the great Japanese artist hocus.
To care for the garden, Mont hired a Japanese gardener who helped him equip the Japanese-style garden. Monet himself was directly involved in the garden layout. The artist discharged the magazine Revue Horticole (Gardening Magazine), ordered plants and flowers from different countries of the world for his garden.

It was this garden that became the main love in the last years of the artist's life. He worked in him, he wrote him in all kinds, from different points, at different times of the day. The garden became for the artist the main source of inspiration.
In the mono garden, a variety of flowers grown in the pond, the pita grew, the famous "Japanese bridge" was thrown through the pond. He could admire his garden for hours, watch the slightest changes in lighting, weather.
In the autumn of 1899, Claude Monet began writing his famous series of "pita", over which he worked until the end of his days.

Claude Monet in his garden on the backdrop of a pond with water lily, 1905.

Claude Monet in his garden, approx. 1917 Photo: Etienne Clementel.
Pictures look a bit "color" and blurred, as it was stereoscopic pictures, they had to consider through special colored glasses, then the image was obtained volumetric.

Claude Monet (right) in his garden in the giver. 1922 year. Photo from The New York Times archive.

"Alley in the Garden", 1902. Gallery Belvedere, Vienna. "Flowering Arch in Zhiverny", 1913. Museum of Art Phoenix, Arizona, USA. "Pink Arch in Giverny (Flower Arch)." 1913, private collection. "Yellow Irises", between 1914-1917. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. "The path between iris." 1914-17, Metropolitan Museum, New York. "White pita". 1899 year. GMI them. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
Famous pond with water lily and Japanese bridge. "Pond with water lily (Japanese bridge)", 1899. Metropolitan Museum, New York. "Pond with lilies. Harmony in green." 1899, National Gallery, London. "Pond with lilies. Harmony in green." 1899, Orsa Museum, Paris. "Sweets. Harmony in pink." 1900 year. Orsha Museum, Paris. "Pond with water lily." 1900 year. Institute of Arts, Chicago.

In the first canvases of the "Sweatshirts" series, Claude Monet depicted a pond with a Japanese bridge, against the background of the magnificent vegetation of the garden.

In the last works depicting a pond with water lily, he deliberately distorted all the prospects received, refused the horizon line, and painted only water with water lily. Water floating on the water, often burst with the boundaries of the canvas, it seems that the real pond is something big than shown in the picture.
This series "Waterwear" has more than 60 canvases.

"Sweatshirts". 1906 year. Institute of Arts, Chicago.
"Kuvshshshina", 1916. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. This is a huge, 2 meter fabric is one of the most expressive in the "Sweatshirts" series. Pink and yellow islands water lishes are located on a dark blue, dark green and even purple water surface of the pond. The picture is all in motion, we see the intertwing roots of water lishes. The flowers themselves literally protrude above the surface of the water. Claude Monety felt very thinly and could transfer all its subtleties on his canvases and overflows.
"Sweatshirts". 1920-26 Orangery Museum, Paris.

In 1980, the house and garden of Claude Monet in the lively were open to visiting. Now it is one of the most beloved museum tourists in the suburb of Paris.

Original title: Poppies at Argenteuil

Year of creation: 1873

Museum D "ORSE, Paris.

Oscar Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) - French painter, one of the founders of impressionism.

In the picture "Field of Makov" (1873), presented at the first exhibition of Impressionists, depicted the wife of Monet Camilla and their son Jean in the field near the house in Argentee. As in many other works of Monet, Camilla is drawn with an umbrella in his hands, and his elegant outlines give the picture a special charm. Wanting to convey the feeling of movement, Monet added a second couple of figures (models for which Camilla and Jean), on the top of the hill, served. They are connected to the figures in the foreground as soon as the path running along the grass. Monet wrote a "field of poppies" at the plenier, on a small portable canvas. Although the picture transmits a natural, spontaneous feeling, it is carefully condensed. This is expressed not only that the artist repeated the figures twice on it, but also in the choice of an angle, which is established in such a way that bright poppies that fill the left part of the composition are diagonally, along which Camilla goes and Jean, as if going out at the same time Beyond the picture. The rich color and movement that is filled with this section of the picture is in the verified contrast with calm tones of the right upper edge of the canvas, where the terracotta roof of the house skillfully bind the back plan with the forefront of the composition.

Description of the picture of Claude Monet "Maki" (from Argentei)

The work of Monet "Maki", its second name "Field of Macs from Argentei" was written by the artist in 1873. The scenery of the poppy field, depicted in the picture, with a small rice of trees, as if separating the sky from the Earth, initially gives a feeling of the uncomplication of the plot. But peering into the picture deeper, you realize that the first impression was deceptive.

The picture can be figuratively divided by two perpendicular lines into four sections. The horizontal line, as if rude and clearly selected, cuts slightly visible, virtual vertical line. The house depicted on the canvas is a kind of center intersection of two lines, connecting the composition to one unit.

It is noteworthy a picture of its semantic and sensual load displayed by silhouettes of women with children located on top of a hill and its slope. Woman and boy, whom we see in the foreground of the picture, no one else, like the wife and son of the artist. An unusual composition gives the illusory vision of the picture in the picture. A repeating image of silhouettes, gives a feeling of movement of women with children by an invisible trail. A tree towering over the hill increases the fullness and importantness of this part of the work.

The right, almost colorless, part contrasts against the background of the flowering poppy field and is a background for the female silhouette depicted at the intersection of related sections of the picture.

Just a few strokes brush, the artist marked the sky. Not touched by the paint of the canvas show the unwillingness of the author to focus on the top of the canvas.

In the aggregate, the picture is perceived as a commitment to earthly values \u200b\u200bthat are of paramount importance. To solve the task set in front of him, the artist resorted to all the possibilities of transmitting his vision of the storyline of the painting in its stock.