Monet's passion : ideas, inspiration, and insights from the painter's gardens
Murray, Elizabeth2009
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This volume offers text, images, and garden plans based on artist and founder of French impressionist painting Claude Monet's spectacular gardens at Giverny. The author has included some 75 color photographs, along with color garden plans, transparent overlays for garden designs, and historical photographs. He discusses the development and history of Monet's Giverny estate and brings new insight to Monet's approach to gardening and design. Emphasizing his understanding of color balance and his genius for maximizing the effects of light, Murray explores the favorite color combinations and techniques with which Monet experimented in both painting and gardening.
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Petaluma, CA : Pomegranate Communications Inc, 2009
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127 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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The garden Monet createdMonet's garden todayBringing Giverny home.
ISBN:
9780764953897 (hbk)
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English
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BRN:
2063806
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