Video: "Poppy Field" - installation inspired by the canvases of Claude Monet
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Can you imagine suddenly blooming in the middle of the Canadian urban jungle? poppy field? It sounds incredible, but nothing is impossible for the art world. And there have already been precedents: not so long ago, Rose Street appeared in Zweibrucken, so poppies in Montreal are already a kind of continuation of the flower tradition.
The creator of the "flower" installation - artist and architect Claude Cormier, an ardent admirer of impressionism. Love for canvases Claude Monet already once inspired him to create a bright installation Pergola, which resembled blooming wisteria. The current creation in Montreal is a tribute to and admiration for the "Poppy Fields" of the great artist. Recall that Claude Monet tirelessly painted the green spaces of Giverny, dotted with scarlet flowers, from his paintings you can compose a whole "poppy" cycle.
The installation required 5,060 red, green and white markers that dot the alley in front of the Museum of Fine Arts. Claude Cordier's work is part of the annual exhibition. Everyone can admire the magnificent poppy field in the middle of the asphalt sea.
By the way, it is not the first time that the works of the famous impressionist have inspired artists to create works of art. We have already introduced our readers to an unusual hotel in the Netherlands, reminiscent of the Blue House in Zaandam, as well as a series of advertising posters for the florist company Don Peony, one of which depicts Monet with another favorite flowers - water lilies.
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