Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.1

When Claude Monet* and his family 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.

A central alley bordered with pines separated it into two parts. Monet had the pines cut down, keeping only the two yews closest to the house to please Alice.

From this Clos Normand of about one hectare, Monet made a garden full of perspectives, symmetries and colours.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Gardens

• What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Quello che mi sembra più importante per il nostro movimento [l'impressionismo] è che abbiamo liberato la pittura dall'importanza del soggetto. Sono libero di dipingere fiori e chiamarli fiori, senza la necessità di raccontare una storia.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Summer landscapes

• "Si arriva davanti alla natura con delle teorie, e la natura le sbatte tutte per terra".

"You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat".

Fabien Clesse, 1962 | Abstract Portrait painter

Fabien Clesse is a French artist, born, living and working in Verdun, a small city in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Clesse studied graphic arts and ended up creating a unique style based on a personal technique and a fine sensibility.

He states his inspiration of both cubism and hyperrealism art schools as an important axe of his painting approach.

Piero Bresciani, 1945 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Piero Bresciani is an Italian painter*, known for working in the Symbolism style.

Bresciani was born in Pietrasanta - Lucca- Italy, the 5th of May 1945.

He obtained his Diploma of artistic maturity at the Art School of Carrara and the Painting Diploma awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milano.

Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦, 1947 | Stone / clay sculpture

Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦 was born in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.

1965 - Graduated from Kofu First High School.

1971 - B.F.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with a major in Architectural Design.

1976 - First-Class Architect license acquired.

1982 - Open his own architectural design office in Tokyo.

1991 - Open a limited company, Zakurosha in Tokyo.

For more than forty years, he has been working as an architect in Tokyo.

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece!

Claude Monet (1840-1926)* lived at Giverny for 43 years, from 1883 to his death in 1926.

A passionate horticulturist, his garden became a work of art as well as a subject for his paintings.

From the Iris garden to his huge waterlily canvases, the garden at Giverny was the focus for some of Monet’s greatest works of art.

Federico Beltrán-Masses (1885-1949)

Il successo, l'oscurità e poi la riscoperta

Beltrán Masses è stato inondato di onori pubblici ed è stato membro delle Accademie di San Fernando a Madrid, San Jorge a Barcellona e San Luís a Saragozza, nonché quelle di Lisbona, Cordóba e Málaga, e anche membro dell'Istituto francese ed Accademia delle Belle Arti di Parigi.

Il fatto che il suo nome sia stato quasi dimenticato fino a poco tempo è in parte la conseguenza di cambiamenti nel gusto, pittura figurativa abbandonata da tutti tranne una manciata di pittori contemporanei di successo dalla fine degli anni Quaranta fino agli anni Settanta.