Renoir Landscape Painting Monet The brilliant aquamarines and warm

The brilliant aquamarines and warm rock tones play happily against teal

holiday warmth that pulls the eye right down the water and out towards the distant harbour mouth

a low line of distant trees meets a sky of drifting cloud

while distant blue hills and scattered shrubs soften the horizon

Renoir Landscape Painting Monet The brilliant aquamarines and warmTall palm trees sway across this sun drenched Mediterranean garden, their fronds catching a warm southern light against a pale sky. Behind a screen of golden grasses and shrubs stands an ochre villa with a small tower and a row of shaded arches, half glimpsed through the foliage. The brushwork is loose and vibrant, dabs of amber, russet and green flickering with the heat of a late afternoon, while a strip of water gleams in the foreground. There is a