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In these photographs in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can imagine the meeting of Clavé and Monet in this beautiful park of the Sallent library, in Bages.
It is a meeting of three fine arts, with music and painting together with landscape architecture. The bust in tribute to Clavé is located in front of a pond that seems to be a tribute to Monet, since the reflections in the aquatic vegetation seem to be his paintings.
Josep Anselm Clavé i Camps (April 21, 1824 – February 24, 1874) was a Catalan politician, composer and writer, founder of the choral movement in Catalonia and promoter of the associative movement. In addition, he was the founder of the choral movement in Spain.
Clavé withdrew from public life after General Pavía’s coup. He had a daughter named Àurea Rosa Clavé (1856-1940), who was a composer and pianist, and arranged several of her father’s works for orchestra, band, and piano.
Several streets and avenues have been named in his honor in different cities of Catalonia, such as Barcelona, ??Vilanova i la Geltrú or El Prat de Llobregat.
Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of the Impressionist movement, considered a pioneer of modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
Although he did not receive a formal art education, Monet learned informally from other artists. As a teenager, he studied drawing with a local artist and later became friends with Eugène Boudin, who introduced him to plein-air painting.
The Impressionist movement, of which Monet is considered the founder, focuses on capturing light and natural forms. Among his best-known works are the Nymphéas, which were offered to the French state as a symbol of peace after the Armistice of November 1918. These works were installed in the Musée de l’Orangerie in 1927, shortly after the death of he.
Monet lived in Giverny for 43 years, from 1883 until his death in 1926. In his home, Monet developed a passion for the garden and colours, creating both a flower garden and a water garden as true works of art.
