1st October - Visiting Giverny

Couleurs de Septembre
16.5" x 14.5", Pastel on Rembrandt pastel board (NFS)
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Today we're picking up a car from the Gare du Nord and driving to Giverny.

The aim is to visit the Foundation Claud Monet which is where you can see Monet's house, his enormous water lily studio, the Clos Normand (the flower garden) and the water garden, the Japanese Bridge and the Japanese Prints. I first saw the house and garden after a morning spent in the Musée de l’Orangerie viewing the huge panels of waterlilies which were of course based on paintings of his water garden - and it's in certainly in my top tend of best days ever!

There are some posts I've written over on Making A Mark are relevant - see

• Gardens in Art continues - with Monet
• Gardens in Art: Monet and the flower garden at Giverny
• Gardens in Art: Monet and the water garden at Giverny
• Gardens in Art: Monet's final Nympheas

Giverny is also the place where Monet painted his series paintings of stacks of wheat which I wrote about in October last year on Making a Mark.

Fortunately I constructed a list of links about Giverny and visiting Giverny two years ago when I was doing my Gardens in Art project on Making A Mark..

Links to information about Giverny include:

• The Claud Monet Foundation at Giverny FONDATION CLAUDE MONET, 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 GIVERNY, FRANCE
• annotated map of the House and Gardens at Giverny
  
• The water garden (jardin d'eau) - 418 feet x 153 feet
  
• The flower garden (Clos Normand) - 380 feet x 240 feet
• Giverny.org
• map of the two gardens at Giverny
• aerial view of the gardens at Giverny
  
• an introduction to the two gardens
• List of plants and flowers in the two gardens
• flowering calendar at Giverny
• photographs of Giverny in the autumn
  
• Report on a lecture entitled "A Site for Sight: Monet in His Garden at Giverny, and given by Michael Marrinan, associate professor of art and art history. It focuses on changes in Monet's technique while painting Giverny.
• Royal Academy - Monet's gardens at Giverny
• Gardenvisit.com - Giverny Opening Dates and Times: April to October Daily 10am to 6pm
• How to get to Giverny from Paris

Making A Mark (04.09.07) - Gardens in Art continues - with Monet

Giverny - a great garden is the site I created as home to information about the garden.

I'm hoping we will also get to visit the The Musée d'Art Américain in Giverny. It's open from April 1st to October 31, 2008 every day except Monday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Then on to Rouen and the cathedral there which Monet painted several times (see a photo of some of these paintings in the Musee D'Orsay in Monday's post). Read about the paintings in the post I did on Making A Mark - Monet's series paintings - Rouen cathedral

Links:

• Claude Monet - Resources for Art Lovers
• Creating a Series - Resources for Artists