The Color of the Moment: Japanese Bridges, Claude Monet

France, 1990

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Episode of Series “Palettes”.
At Giverny near Paris, Claude Monet created a garden, which included a large pond, which he filled with waterlilies and over which he built a Japanese bridge. This pond and the bridge featured in many series of paintings throughout his life there, and this program looks at them in detail. Monet pioneered the ‘series’ painting but it is “the dance of the brush and the vibration of light” for which he will be remembered.

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Credits

producer

Alain Jaubert

production company

Delta Image

FR3

La Sept

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
France
Production dates
1990

Appears in

Palettes

Group of items

Palettes

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302927

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Impressionism (Art)

Crafts & Visual Arts → Monet, Claude, 1840-1926

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, French

People → Monet, Claude, 1840-1926

Short films

Short films → Short films - France

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Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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