5 Popular Artworks

Title: Water-Lilies
Date: 1916
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 150 x 197 cm
Location: Musée Marmottan, Paris France. Giverny
URL: http://www.interagir.com/?entryID=100

The Water-Lilies are a series of about more than 200 oil paintings by Claude Monet. His artworks describe his famous Garden of Giverny where he spent most of his last 30 years painting and creating some of his famous works. Most of the Water-Lilies series was painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

Title: Water-Lily Pond
Date: 1899
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 90 x 90 cm
Location: The Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey USA.
URL: http://www.interagir.com/?entryID=36

When Monet moved to Giverny, he had a small pond near his home where he created his own little water garden. Over the pond he had a Japanese style bridge that soon become the main object of many other artworks which he painted in different light conditions thus creating numerous masterpieces.

Title: The Walk, Woman with a Parasol
Date: 1875
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 100 x 81 cm
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA.
URL: http://www.interagir.com/?entryID=22

This painting is also known as Madame Monet and her son (Camille Doncieux Monet and Jean  Monet). Monet painted this painting while him and his family resided in a suburb of Argenteuil in 1871. This painting was featured in the second impressionism exhibition and Monet was praised at the spontaneous look of the painting and its air of naturalness.

Title:  Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Date: 1897
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 60 × 100 cm
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wheatstacks_(End_of_Summer),_1890-91_(190_Kb);_Oil_on_canvas,_60_x_100_cm_(23_5-8_x_39_3-8_in),_The_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg

The Stacks of Wheat, more commonly known as the Haystacks, are part of a 25 part series of paintings that feature this exact object, but at numerous times of day, moments in the year and different weather conditions. This canvas series is one of the many examples of impressionism by Monet and is known as one of Monet’s most notable works. The series depicts the stacks of hay during the season of harvest in France and was painted in a field near Monet’s home in Giverny, France.

Title: Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal and Saint-Romain Tower, Full Sunlight, Harmony in Blue and Gold
Date: 1894
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 107 x 73 cm
Location: Musee d’Orsay, Paris
URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/rouen/

This canvas series consists of more than 30 artworks, capturing the face of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year – reflecting the appearance under different light conditions. Monet would even rent the land in front of the cathedral to set up a temporary studio to capture the magnificent cathedral in any light possible. The art series was well-timed – as France was seeing a religious revival and the canvas series was highly praised and loved. Apart from the religious subject, the Rouen Cathedral showed all of the best of the French history and culture.