The Ibis - Claude Monet : ''Woman Seated Under The Willows'' (1880) - Museum-Grade Giclee($40.99Value)

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Archival inkjet on matte finish fine art paper Specialized pigment inks yield rich, lasting color Fine art paper affords much greater detail than canvas White borders leave space for matting and framing Respects the artist's vision - no arbitrary cropping or distortion In her book on women readers in French painting, Kathryn J. Brown writes that "Throughout the 1870s, Monet experimented with pictorial structures that both cocooned and illuminated the female reader, revealing her in epiphanic fashion in a manner reminiscent of Renaissance paintings that portrayed the Virgin Mary secluded in her garden." In Woman Seated under the Willows, she notes, the trees form a cathedral-like arch or cloister. Rendered in the same short, curving brushstrokes as the landscape, the woman blends seamlessly into her environment. The effect is to convey "the isolation of the female physical and imaginative life with an idealized realm that is disconnected from wider social reality."