Featured are oil paintings, short videos, and a blog by Leigh Cohn, who is self-taught and uses a projector technique. He has given away more than 350 canvases, which are hanging in the offices of Forever Balboa Park (formerly the Balboa Park Conservancy) in San Diego, Carlsbad City Hall, homes, and offices. In 2022, supporters of his artwork donated $13,617 to the Ocean Conservancy, and in 2023 he had a two-month "Featured Artist" solo exhibit at the Carlsbad Senior Center, where he teaches painting classes and lectures on Impressionism.

New Impressionism Videos & Paintings

This intimate lecture (58 minutes) on Claude Monet’s art and life also includes the major events and figures that led to the rise of the Impressionism. Featuring more than 250 Impressionist paintings and colorful stories about the painters, sculptor Auguste Rodin, art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, and notable writers. Monet is discussed in depth with insights into his methods, personality, wives, children, and friendships, as well as his legacy as one of the greatest painters in the history of art.

With fascinating detals, such as:

• How much his paintings sold for in his lifetime.

• At the height of his career he earned more than 200,000 francs annually—enough to support a family of ten and staff equally large, install an historic water lily pond, plus build greenhouses and art studios on his 5-acre estate.

• Despite his fame, Monet suffered from severe doubts when he was dissatisfied with compositions, which led him to destroy hundreds of paintings.

• He completed a series of enormous murals more than a football field in length—entirely painted after the age of seventy up until he died at the age of 86.

This 2024 lecture by Leigh Cohn was the second one in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of “The Birth of Impressionism" (see below)

Here’s the inside story of how Impressionism began:

•  The four painters who became close friends as students…
•  Why 1,500 of Pissarro’s were destroyed
•  How Renoir avoided a firing squad
•  Manet was no Monet
•  The love lives and personalities of the key figures
•  Berthe Morisot was the first woman in the "anonymous society"
•  A deceased painter had the idea for an exhibit
•  Who Monet called "The greatest of us all"
… and much more!

2024 Water Lilies Homage

Monet's Japanese Bridge (2024) 60 x 48
Like Art Institute of Chicago 1906 Monet (2024) 48 x 60

Blog Article and Video

Leigh painting "Reflections of Monet"

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