3dRose The Shoot, Claude Monet Painting Dated 1876, PD-US - Greeting Cards, 6 x 6 inches, set of 12 (gc_179226_2)

claude monet's painting garden at sun address evidences the maturation of his artistic voice although money is best known as an impressionist this work is not fully an impressionist painting painted in 1867 this work evidences some of the characteristics that we associate with impressionism such as bright unmixed colors laid down in abbreviated brush marks nevertheless this painting reveals monet's impressionist method in an embryonic state of development this painting at the metropolitan museum of art features two couples one standing and one seated on a terrace that overlooks a seascape full of ships depicting a fleeting moment of relaxation this painting invites the viewer to join the group on the patio as if we were for just a moment in the resort town on the normandy coast the enchanting motif disguises a tension in this work between its pictorial space and the means by which the i