Paintings with poppy fields by Claude Monet

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The most famous impressionist and "godfather" of this new direction in painting, Claude Monet is known for returning to the same landscapes many times. These are his favorite lakes with water lilies, and poppy fields (pictures that we will consider in this article). It is simply impossible for a real artist to pass by a flowering meadow and not take up a brush! And Monet painted them repeatedly, his works date from 1872, and 1874, and 1885, and 1890. In their name, one way or another, there is a reference to beautiful flowers. Many museums around the world are proud of the best paintings by C. Monet.

Impressionism and flowering fields by Claude Monet

The first "poppies" of the artist were created in 1872-73 and presented at the exhibition in 1874. It was an exhibition of artists using a new style of writing and working "in the open air", that is, in nature. The very first exhibition did not leave indifferent either the audience or the critics, the reviews were very different. The name of the whole direction was immediately coined - this is part of the name of one of Claude Monet's paintings “Impression. Sunrise". The impression, or “impressionio”, will be the main thing in this artistic movement, which has taken, apart frompainting, also sculpture, and music with literature.

The first, most vivid image of trembling nature, taken simultaneously from several points of view, a cast of the most full-blooded life, when the air seems to sway and be filled with sounds and aromas, and uses impressionism.

Paintings with poppies by Claude Monet

The artist under study often painted in series. He has cycles of 250 images of water lilies "Nymphaeum", as well as "Racks" and "Poplars". There are also paintings of poppies, where brightly colorful glades made with a moving multicolored carpet are always in the foreground, swaying like clouds and trees in the paintings. The people on the canvas seem to be as integral a part of the landscape as the greenery, the hills and the sky, they simply dissolve into the grass, flowers and air.

The painting "Poppy Field" is in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and in the Museum of Art in Boston. Both canvases depict the same place in Giverny. The construction of the paintings is the same - with horizontal ribbons, the colors are similar, but the state of the weather affected the lighting. One of the landscapes turned out to be different, more bright after the clouds left and peaceful.

Both pictures are shining, the colors are pure and beautiful:

1. The ribbon of the sky is light blue, almost white.
2. Ribbon of mountains (hills) - all tones from blue to dark purple.
3. Ribbon of trees and bushes - from light green to dark emerald.
4. The foreground is a variegated orange-red carpet of a flower meadow with inclusions of green, shining in dozens of shades, with smallsplashes of white and blue. It is flowers that you pay attention to first of all, and only then trees, bushes, hills appear.

Claude Monet's poppies evoke a desire not to collect them in a bouquet, but to touch, lie down in them, breathe in the air of summer heat, exposing the face to the sun. That's the impression.

Split collection is a problem for fans of the artist

In 1909, Paul Durand-Ruel collected in his gallery a huge number of canvases depicting water flowers. 48 canvases with water lilies by Claude Monet were also presented there.

I would like to see in one place all the canvases depicting Monet's poppies, starting with the paintings "Poppy Field" and ending with portraits against the background of these flowers. An exhibition like this shouldn't go unnoticed.