Monet's poppies are found in many of his finest paintings, normally as part of a dreamy impressionist landscape. This article covers the career of Claude Monet and seeks the works from it which specifically included poppies within them.
Poppy Blooming was a painting by Monet which features the artist's wife and child in the foreground amidst a flowing scenery of greens and reds, with the poppies blooming to great effect. The reds of this flower were ideal for the style of impressionist Claude Monet who used them to breathe life in the painting alongside the neutral tones of green that were used to create the remaining elements of the field which the painter did not want to attract as much attention. Besides his series of poppies, other excellent paintings by Claude Monet included Water-Lilies, Venice Twilight, Bouquet Of Sunflowers, The Japanese Bridge, Impression Sunrise, Monet's Garden at Argentueil and The Water Lily Pond. The actual career of Monet was very long and covers several decades where the artist managed to somehow keep up a consistently high level of work.
Monet was the leader of the impressionists and helped them to quickly build a reputation as an academically accepted new art movement. For those who have not studied art in great detail landscape paintings are often an obvious choice when looking to buy reproductions for their homes, and Monet is a painter that they can rely on, with a consistent approach and great level of productivity meaning that his supporters will have a huge selection to pick from when choosing perhaps a poster, print or stretched canvas reproduction to add to their bedroom or living room.
In conclusion, Poppies Blooming and other Claude Monet landscapes which feature poppies are excellent examples of French impressionism at it's bright and bold best with this native French plant helping to add excitement to charming field scenes which are otherwise predominantly in simple shades of green, waiting for the extra colours to lift the work. It could perhaps be that living in locations like Giverny that first inspired Claude Monet to become an artist in the first place and flowers such as the poppies would have been all around him at this time. Many others have used poppies for still life works, such as Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne but this artist was only really interested in painting French landscapes and only rarely went away from this approach, from which he also developed his reputation which remains very strong today.