(Community Matters) On Tuesday, the gang of six took the tour – quite spectacular, not hard to see how the founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet (1840 – 1929), was inspired.
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It's about community, entrepreneurs, politics, art . . and sometimes just silly fun . . . a slightly gay blog.Eugene Sepulveda
Love big West Texas skies, the unimpeded horizons of the coasts, Austin and my husband, the Rev. Dr. Steven Robert Tomlinson, with whom I’ve spent the last 24 years – nineteen years since we were married on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Then, married again at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin, TX on June 27, 2015.
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To make your Giverny experience complete, visit the Orangerie in Paris (if you haven’t already). Toward the end of his life, Monet was out of fashion in the art world, crippled with arthritis, and alone. Georges Clemenceau, the French leader in WWI and Monet’s longtime friend, offered him a former royal greenhouse as an exhibition space. There, after Monet’s death, were hung the last, largest, and most abstract versions of “Les Nymphéas” (“Waterlilies”). The huge, dark murals have a sort of valedictory monumentality that remind me of the triptychs in the Rothko Chapel. Very much worth a visit as well for the small but stunning collection of postimpressionists.