Still life and French Impressionist art have always existed hand in glove so to speak: But never has that glove fitted quite as well as it did upon the hand of Claude Monet. Chrysanthemums is a beautiful and loyal Reproduction of Monet’s original oil painting created during 1878. Monet loved nature and spent his artistic life depicting the sensation of color and light upon and within the landscape: And so effectively upon him. Monet’s world was sensitive and vibrant as is this picture. His was an investigation into atmospheres and sensations. This gives his oil paintings a very up front and personal feel – A quality that is hard to find and yet so many people around the world are drawn by it. That is conclusive in the fact that today Claude Monet is renowned as one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth AND twentieth century.

Monet loved his garden in Giverney. While the artist spent many years planning and cultivating Monet did not care to create an overly structured environment. Instead he would arrange flowers by color and allowed them to grow freely in these areas as they wished. This direction can also be seen within his paintings. Chrysanthemums is a carefree composition that is as beautifully composed as it is wild and liberated: A stunning piece.

Monet did not care for structured or planned gardens and instead insisted on letting flowers grow as they wanted to, arranging them only by color. He was inspired to design plans for a water garden by his admiration for Japanese prints, which he studied intently and kept around his studio, though he never actually visited Japan. As he became more successful, he was also able to spend more on rare plants and flowers for both the main and water garden areas. “All my money goes into my garden,” he admitted freely, a passion for natural beauty that would extend beyond his own lifetime. Monet died at Giverny in 1926, and his home and gardens are still major tourist attractions.