A Villages

Bus Trip on May 2.

The bus is full!

MONET:  The Late Years  

at the De Young Museum  

Villages Bus Trip on May 2

from the Community Activities Office in Building B

        The exhibition will feature nearly 50 paintings by Claude Monet dating mainly from 1913 to 1926, the final phase of the artist's long career. During his late years, the well-traveled Monet stayed close to home, inspired by the variety of elements making up his own garden at Giverny, a village located about forty-five miles from Paris. With its evolving scenery of flower beds, footpaths, willows, wisteria, and nymphaea, the garden became a personal laboratory for the artist's concentrated study of natural phenomena. The exhibition will focus on the series that Monet invented, and just as important, reinvented, in this setting. In the process, it will reconsider the conventional notion that many of the late works painted on a large scale were preparatory for the Grand Decorations, rather than finished paintings in their own right. Boldly balancing representation and abstraction, Monet's radical late works redefined the master of Impressionism as a forebear of modernism.

       Monet exhibit at the de Young outing is planned for Thursday, May 2. Bus will depart the Villages at 8 a.m. Your trip escort will split you into two groups to have docent lead tour, with first tour beginning at 10 a.m. and second at 10:15 a.m. Following your tour you will be able to enjoy lunch in the de Young Café and see other exhibit at the museum. There is a lovely gift shop where they will have Monet prints available for purchase as well as many other items that might be of interest to you. We plan on returning back to the Villages at approximately 4 p.m. Cost per person is $77.