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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the 1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively experienced, but rather that which takes place "between the motif and the artist". In their open, merely tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, his water lily paintings - created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde - point the way to the developments of the future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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this book is excellent value for monet, the plates have first class colour. The information contains just the right amount of facts, and background. I purchased this book for my 12 year old godson who loves it, but is also suitable for, beginers to art, or Monet, and adults. ps I find this publisher excellent for this type of material and architectural works.
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My daughter found this a very useful first book to start her research on Monet
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Nice Introductory Book
25 Mar 2011
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This book is an excellent way to learn about Monet (his life and technique) without having to spend too much time researching.
the book highlights the evolution of Monet's technique throughout his life and teaches the reader to understand why he painted what
he painted. Recommended purchase for the art novice and suggested reference for the intermediate art lover.
the book highlights the evolution of Monet's technique throughout his life and teaches the reader to understand why he painted what
he painted. Recommended purchase for the art novice and suggested reference for the intermediate art lover.
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