1902, Claude Monet, Path in Monet's Garden in Giverny -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: It is late summer. The leaves and flowers seem positively to shimmer. Solid shapes are nowhere to be seen — everything is color. It was the atmosphere created by light that interested Claude Monet. The nasturtiums, asters, dahlias, and the sandy path leading to a house all shine brightly. In spring 1883, Monet moved to a house in Giverny, northwest of Paris. He immediately started designing the garden; a water-lily pond was a later addition. The then little-known painter had unwittingly given Impressionism its name when he exhibited Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) in 1872. His famous water-lily paintings and images of his garden avenue represent the climax and culmination of this style.
1902, Claude Monet, Path in Monet's Garden in Giverny -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: It is late summer. The leaves and flowers seem positively to shimmer. Solid shapes are nowhere to be seen — everything is color. It was the atmosphere created by light that interested Claude Monet. The nasturtiums, asters, dahlias, and the sandy path leading to a house all shine brightly. In spring 1883, Monet moved to a house in Giverny, northwest of Paris. He immediately started designing the garden; a water-lily pond was a later addition. The then little-known painter had unwittingly given Impressionism its name when he exhibited Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) in 1872. His famous water-lily paintings and images of his garden avenue represent the climax and culmination of this style.