Monet's Garden
When French Impressionist painter Claude Monet settled in Giverny in 1883 the piece of land sloping gently down from the house to the road was planted with an orchard and enclosed by high stone walls, but not any longer. A stroll along tranquil paths, under trees and past shimmering water, all cloaked in an explosion of colour, texture and vibrancy is to enter Monet’s world of palettes glistening with glossy oil paints.
Claude Monet did not like organized or constrained gardens; he liked flamboyant explosions of a single colour; a pool of yellow daffodils to welcome the spring, a cascade of pink and red roses to celebrate summer and a shower of lime willow fronds grazing the olive waters of the lake to retreat to during the heat of the day. During autumn the garden burns with the citreous yellow and burnt orange of Japanese Maple.
A tour of the garden will reveal paintings come to life, scenes that Monet painted again and again, the Japanese Bridge, water lilies floating gently on still waters and a stream scuttling under languid willows and past crowded banks.
The house is no less exceptional, filled with colour and crammed with curios and prints, many of which were collected by Monet.
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