Monet & the 4 Trees

The 4 trees is one of Claude Monet‘s famous paintings. I need to do a project on it but I also found some useful comments on copyright on the wikipedia page hosting the image.

I have a printed copy hanging on my wall. It seems much pinker than one above and when I was looking for a digital version the colours all seem different. I am curious if this is because he did a bunch or because digitising colour is very technology dependant. I was also unaware that Impressionism was named after this picture called Impression Sunrise. This too appears in many images on the internet, each with slightly differing colours.

This is now displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, while Four Tress is in the Met in NYC.

A personal fascination became apparent when I discovered under US Law and the Berne treaties, a faithful photograph of two dimensional pictures do not create a new copyright and thus all the photos of Monet’s art are Public Domain since he died in 1926 and the copyright expired in 2006. …

Here’s a slide show of some I found,

Monet – Four Trees

Monet – Japanese Bridge

Monet – San Giorgio Maggorie at dusk

Monet – Lady with parasol on windy day

Monet – Water Lillies

Monet – House of Parliament in London

Monet – Rouen Cathederal

Monet – Sunrise

Monet – Another Sunrise over the Harbour

Monet – House by the Sea

Monet – Poppyfield

Monet – Red Boats at Argenteuil

Monet – Venice

Monet – Yacht on the River

Monet – Yacht Racing 2

Here are some more, from a google search, …

I went to the fever video exhibition, which I really enjoyed, including the VR tour. This pointed me at some of his sailing and seascape pictures. So I made this slide show.