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Day Tripping: November 14
Lasting Impressions
From nearly the time of his birth in 1840, Claude Monet had a love for the outdoors around his home of Normandy. His father always wanted young Claude to pursue a business career, but his mother encouraged his artistic side. After she died when Monet was only sixteen, the boy was sent to live with his wealthy spinster aunt.
Claude was enrolled in the Académie Suisse, and there he met a classmate, Auguste Renoir. Later, the pair met Camille Pissarro and after leaving art school, they embarked on a journey of discovery. The artists shared a yearning to create beauty from the conventional in a new light.
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.”
Color and light were the keys to Monet’s imagination, and he used them both to create ways of seeing that was never witnessed before. As age caught up and his eyesight began to fail, Claude Monet's works became less vibrant as well.
He had refused cataract surgery, yet the images he created influenced a new force in art, from impressionism to modernism. Monet spent his final years at Giverny where he’d bought a farmhouse with ponds and fields.
He filled days making renditions of single scenes that changed with the light of day. Still, if he wasn’t satisfied with a particular piece, Claude showed no hesitation in destroying the failed work. Claude Monet left a legacy of light study that is truly necessary to love.
Today is:
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day — or just relax with your favorite Teddy Bear Day
Musical Ride
Long after they had been divorced, Cher got coerced into performing the hit song, I Got You Babe with ex-husband Sonny Bono on the David Letterman Show in 1987.
Interesting Notes
The second spacecraft to head for a landing on the moon, Apollo 12 was launched in 1969. It was a rainy day and the ship was struck by lightning twice, but no damage was sustained. Another successful moonwalk took place almost four months after the original landing.
Notable Births
1900 — Aaron Copland: “So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”
1954 — Condoleezza Rice: “Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.”
K. Barrett Maria Rattray Maryam Merchant Dr. Mehmet Yildiz Tree Langdon Myriam Ben Salem Phil Truman Chelsea Mandler MAT Terry Mansfield Hollie Petit, Ph.D. Terry Trueman Dr. Preeti Singh John Gruber Bill Abbate James G Brennan ScienceDuuude Marcus Liam Ireland Claire Kelly Noorain Hassan, BMS Amy Pierovich David Acaster Nora Thewriteyard David Perlmutter Joe Luca Holly Kellums Michael Burg, MD Lucy Dan Dave Logan
All previous Day Tripping entries are available at the following links:
The Story Of Day Tripping Through History What’s Past Is Often Present
A comprehensive directory for Day Tripping