Springtime

 Claude Monet's paintings are display what transcendentalist thoughts. Monet's springtime a painting of his wife was painted in his backyard in Paris, France in the spring of 1872. Transcendentalist thought that there was a value in being alone in nature. Springtime reflects the idea because the woman in the painting is admiring the nature's beauty by reading a book. Camille the woman in the painting isolates herself from the rest of society to read a book to value nature. The painting also displays the idea of need of harmony between man and nature. Camille shows that she is finding harmony in nature by being alone with nature while she relaxes with natural beauty of the world. Henry David Thoreau said " Alas! How little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape?” The painting is reflecting proof of the quote because Camille is in the beauty of the landscape and she is enjoying herself outside while she reads a book. Camille is using transcendentalist ideas in her time by being in her husband's backyard because she wanted to get away from the problems of society and by reading a book in nature to better her to come back to reality and be herself with her husband.
 * Springtime **

Monet had intentionally named his painting "springtime" but after its debut in The Second Impressionist Exhibit in 1876, viewers started calling the painting "Woman Reading". Monet painted his wife in their backyard; he painted it to show people how his wife likes to spend her time when she was not doing any house duties. Springtime changed society because to give people the view of how to be in peace in nature. Transcendentalist believed that being within nature was a place to be in harmony, and Monet reflected that with his wife. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (Henry David Thoreau) Camille is reflecting the quote because she is not teaching her son Jean what to in life, or what he should do. Monet is using his wife to show transcendental thoughts because he wanted to display how his wife spent her time in nature in the rural area.

 The painting overall is important because it shows how a woman gets away to become herself again. Camille shows how she is spending her time on nature it gets away from society to get back in to her own reality without having people judge what she likes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Camille is proof of his quote because she is under a tree reading enjoying the peace of nature. Monet created this painting to display the nature of beauty that his wife has experienced in their backyard.

