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Group: Giverny Artist: Claude MONET Birth/Death: 1840–1926 Title: Meadow at Giverny Date Made: 1894 Lender: Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey Meadow at Giverny reveals the growing sensuousness of Monet’s art. It is more a field of energies than a stable landscape. While governed by Art nouveau’s sinuous line and artificial colours, it still gives a sense that, however transformed, it is based on intense observation of nature. Thus the meadow is dissolved into lines of force formed from long streaks of violet and green; but these gradually reveal themselves as shadows that seem to vibrate in the light of the setting sun, which also catches at the slender line of the distant tree. More details Click image to enlarge