The Garden. (Le Jardin) Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926)

Description of Claude Monet’s painting "The Garden

Oscar Claude Monet was a French painter and one of the founders of Impressionism. He began his artistic career by painting caricatures and gained fame as a portrait painter, but his main passion was creating natural landscapes. Most of his paintings are devoted to beautiful gardens from different parts of France.

The painting The Garden was painted in 1876. At that time the artist was living in his own cottage in his homeland, Argant, a northwestern suburb of Paris. It was probably there that he found the garden, which he subsequently captured on canvas.

The viewer can see a beautiful, tranquil garden. In the foreground is a dense carpet of grass and burdock, freely spreading its large leaves. In the background you can see tall trees and lush thickets of bushes, which seem to be full of mysteries and riddles. Although the abundance of yellow leaves on the trees indicates the approach of autumn, the whole picture breathes sunshine and warmth.

The canvas is dominated by natural colors: warm yellow and fresh green. Bright spot on the yellow-green background stands out juicy red berries on bushes. The artist has depicted them at the right border of the picture. On the opposite side of the berry bushes we can see another accent detail of the composition - a dark-haired girl in a light blue dress. She has a high headdress on her head.

In 1890 the artist bought for his family a house with a plot of land, on which he laid out a beautiful garden. Even after turning into a gardener, Monet did not stop painting, but now his main model was the garden, created by his own hands.