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Hommage á Claude Monet


IMPRESSIONISM

At the end of the 19th century, all French art was controlled by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, a society of artists and scholars that dictated style, technique and subject matter. Portraits and historical and religious themes were valued; landscapes and still life images were not. The Académie preferred realistic images, carefully and perfectly finished, in muted tones. Each year, it held a juried show, the Salon de Paris. If an artist’s work was displayed there, he won prizes, commissions and prestige. If his work wasn’t accepted, his career progressed with difficulty.

In the early 1860s, four young painters—Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille - jointly turned their backs on the Academie. They would choose their own subjects and work in their own way. At the same time, many European artists were starting to paint en plein air—not just sketch in the country, but paint. The idea was to put what one sees on canvas immediately, so as not to lose the action and emotions of the moment. This meant painting at speed, using quick, short brushstrokes. It meant more light, more shadow, and overall visual effect rather than detail and contour. At this time, brilliant synthetic paints had become available; the artists of this new movement took advantage of pure, unmixed colour and created paintings that vibrated with energy. As the movement gained steam, one artist emerged as its master. And one of his paintings gave this new style its name: Impression, Soleil Levant by Claude Monet.


Portrait of Claude Monet


CLAUDE MONET


Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840, but he grew up in Le Havre, where he started sketching early—he was selling charcoal caricatures at age 10. He received some artistic instruction here; he learned to use oil paints and to paint en plein air. Eventually, he returned to Paris.

War broke out, Claude spent two years in the cavalry, and then returned to Paris and began studying art. He married, had children, and the family lived in poverty while he tried to make his way. Slowly, through participation in group shows and connections with art dealers, his fortunes improved. Shortly after his first wife died, he took up with the woman who would become his second wife. Between them, they had eight children; it was necessary that he find a large house. Eventually, he was able to rent a house at Giverny. Then, as his paintings continued to sell, he was able to buy it, and expand it, buy surrounding land and improve it further.

Monet became devoted to his garden at Giverny, which he transformed into a paradise of flowers, trees and ponds. The place was bursting with exotic plants like wisteria, irises, roses and water lilies, one of his preferred flowers. Monet never lost his fascination for his garden; he started to paint its ever-changing images in, and kept painting them for the rest of his life. He died in 1926, but millions of people continued, and continue, to visit his fabulous garden.


OUR DESIGNS

It is the plants and colours of Giverny that inspired the artists at FREYWILLE to create the Hommage à Claude Monet collection. Their goal was to convey the same emotions that Monet must have felt when working in his garden, but they wanted to intensify them in shining fire enamel.


IRIS

As a homage to Monet FREYWILLE´s artists want to remind us all of him through stylizations of his works in Art Nouveau and have interpreted the typical flowers of Giverny. Bloomy green and soft blue tones are predominant in the set IRIS, which is available either in mountings plated with 24kt yellow gold or white Rhodium/palladium.


Rings from the Hommage á Claude Monet Iris collection


Hommage á Claude Monet Giverny Bordered Bangle Diva and Luna Piena Pendant next to the painting "Giverny" by Claude Monet


GIVERNY

As a blooming oasis, the garden at Giverny became a refuge for Monet, a place where his mind could rest and inspiration could take over. Besides iris, lilies, wisteria and water lilies in abundance, the peaceful lake and Japanese-style bridge contributed to the idyllic scenery. With his Giverny-inspired paintings, Monet was able to transfer his stunning surroundings and his personal sentiments for this lieu onto canvas. In the FREYWILLE design GIVERNY, all elements fluidly align: flora, raw nature, light and abstract colours for which Monet is most famous. With love for detail, the FREYWILLE artists have captured the impressionistic brushstrokes, and reflections dancing elegantly on the grass and blossoms.


ORANGERIE

The impressive installation of Les Nymphéas in the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris sprawls over two oval rooms of straight architecture. The interiors are minimalist, and peace is palpable. This environment is the perfect frame for the overwhelming Water Lily paintings, which expand a length of over 300 feet.

A place of rest and reflection – the atmosphere is much like the environment Claude Monet created in his garden in Giverny. FREYWILLE’s design, ORANGERIE, is about the atmosphere’s influence on personal reflection, thought and various moods. The imposing motif of the Water Lilies brings forth the feelings and sensations of Giverny with its fragrant flowers, warming rays of sunlight and gentle wind of Normandy. Together with shimmering light on the blossoms and waves – representing the sunset – Orangerie suggests a perfect allegory of idyll.



Hands holding a Bordered Bangle Diva from the Hommage á Claude Monet Orangerie collection.


Hand holding a Jewellery Watch Helena from the Hommage á Claude Monet Orangerie Rosé collection and the other hand painting a sketch of the design.



ORANGERIE ROSÉ

Tender shades of rose and blue form a harmonised composition, reflecting a sunset mood of the Water Lilies of Giverny. The creation beautifully emphasizes the flair of the Normandy, the fading ray of sunlight and the gentle colours of dawn.
The silky shimmering rose gold combined with the artistic handcrafted fire enamel unfolds its tenderness and contributes to the romantic mood of this new Hommage collection.


FINE JEWELLERY

Monet's most significant works, the water lily paintings, served as inspiration for the design of ORANGERIE. In an incomparable way, ORANGERIE reflects the atmosphere of Giverny, the scent of flowers, the warmth of the sun and the gentle breeze of Normandy. Combining 18kt gold, radiant diamonds and the artistic fire enamel in the design of "Orangerie", the jewellery present themselves in their most luxurious manner for everlasting joy.

Hommage á Claude Monet Orangerie 18kt gold and diamonds - Heart pendant with diamonds

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Luna Piena Pendants from the Hommage á Claude Monet Orangerie collection