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This beautiful book is a comprehensiveand accessiblestudy of monets achievement that sets his rich legacy into the context of his life and times. The quintessential impressionist, claude monet, created more than 2,500 paintings, drawings, and pastels, radically altering the way art was made and understood. Monet monet image 1 monet image 2 monet image 3 monet image 4. Claude monet lived for fortythree years, from 1883 to 1926, in his house in giverny. Claude monet was in almost every sense the founder of french impressionist painting, the term itself coming from one of his paintings, impression, sunrise. This book is the most comprehensive collection of claude monets paintings ever published, covering the artists entire 64 years of creation. The outdoors clearly inspired monet to take most of his subject matter from natures beauty. A founding member of the impressionist movement in the late 1800s, claude monet was interested in direct observation and perceptual study, particularly depicting the effects of light and shadow on color. Oct 01, 20 claude monet complete works, online gallery, full hd, french impressionist paintings with piano duration. Soon after, his family moved to le havre, where he spent his youth. A proponent of en plein air painting, monet is most famous for his series depicting haystacks 1891, poplars 1892, the rouen cathedral 1894, and water lilies 191020. Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself.
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