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May 1, 2001 · This definitive treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable contribution to the art history of Impressionism and the roots of modernism. 135 color and 165 b/w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover under the title: Claude Monet: Life and Work. Read more.
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Laura Auricchio. Department of Art & Design Studies, Parsons The New School for Design. October 2004. Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Claude Monet
Born in Paris, Oscar Claude Monet moved at the age of five to Le Havre, a seaside town in northern France. His father was a successful grocer that later turned to shipping. His mother died when he was 15. The ocean and rugged coastline of Northern France had a profound effect on him at an early age, and he would often run away from school to go for...
A pivotal experience occurred in 1856 when Monet became friends with Eugéne Boudin, a landscape painter famous for his scenes of northern French coastal towns. Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors, and this en plein airtechnique changed Monet's concept of how art could be created: "It was as if a veil was torn from my eyes; I had understood. I g...
Obliged to serve in the military, in 1861 Monet was sent to Algiers. Like Eugène Delacroix before him, the north African environment stimulated Monet and affected his artistic and personal outlook. Coming home to Le Havre after his service, his "final education of the eye" was provided by the Dutch landscape and marine artist Johan Jongkind. Follow...
Ultimately, Monet preferred to be alone with nature, creating his paintings rather than participating in theoretical or critical battles within the artistic and cultural scene of Paris. Whereas he traveled throughout the 1880s and 1890 to places like London, Venice, Norway, and around France - in 1908 he settled for the remainder of his life in Giv...
Monet's extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement as evidenced by its massive popular consumption in the form of calendars, postcards, and posters. Of course, Monet's paintings command top p...
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- November 14, 1840
- Paris, France
- December 5, 1926
Oct 12, 1992 · This definitive treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable contribution to the art history of Impressionism and the roots of modernism. 135 color and 165 b/w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover under the Claude Life and Work . Genres Art. 348 pages, Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Virginia Spate
Feb 9, 2021 · Kimberley Muir and Ken Sutherland. February 9, 2021. For Claude Monet, color was paramount. He once proclaimed, “color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.” In 1903, when he set out to make a series of paintings featuring his water lily pond in Giverny, Monet had an unprecedented range of painting materials at his disposal.
- Kim Muir, Ken Sutherland
- 2021
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The Colour of Time: Claude Monet. Virginia Spate. Thames and Hudson, 1992 - Impressionism (Art) - 348 pages. Study of the work, life and times of this famous and influential French...
May 4, 2001 · View other formats and editions. Synopsis. Based on a complete study of Monet's work, his surviving letters (nearly 3,000 in all) and contemporary documentary material, Virginia Spate's classic volume is the fullest account available of a complex and influential man whose style changed and evolved considerably during his long career. Monet is ...
