The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a temple of painting

The New York MET is a picture of the city it is in – gigantic, exciting, and you could spend hours admiring the view! Among the works exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are Vermeer, Giacometti, Rembrandt, Watteau and Warhol.

Baths of the Grenouillère by Claude Monet

Baths of the Grenouillère is a painting by Claude Monet, a French painter very famous for being one of the most important Impressionist painters . Impressionism was a pictorial movement based on prints, landscapes, and light. It is a matter of feeling that makes it possible for the painting to shine:

“What I will do here will have at least the merit of not resembling anyone, because it will be the impression of what I felt, only me.” – Claude Monet

La Grenouillère is a spa restaurant on the Seine, much frequented by the Parisian petty bourgeoisie, which the artist depicts on his canvas. In the middle of the canvas, a central island allows visitors to bathe, sometimes against their will!