Giverny

This past Friday, IES took us on an excursion to Claude Monet's Giverny.  We had a tour through the Impressionism Museum where there is currently an exposition of Pierre Bonnard's Normandy work.  Personally, I do not find Bonnard to be that good.  His colors annoy me and I especially do not like his people.  I prefer his landscapes.  By the end, I was wishing I had just spent that hour and a half looking at Monet instead.  After lunch we got to wonder around the gardens for about three hours, and that was really amazing.  His house is also open to walk through (unfortunately you can't take pictures inside) and I found his mono-chrome taste in room decor to be really interesting.  The dining room was all yellow, which was slightly obnoxious, but the all blue kitchen was really pretty.  I took lots and lots of flower pictures because they were all so colorful and bright! Some of them literally looked as though they were glowing and then there were some of them looked like candy because the colors were so vivid and crisp.  I don't blame him for painting in that garden!