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  • Painting By Claude Monet
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    Impressionism was a movement that occurred in both art and poetry. It was a time in which the people broke from the traditional standards or styles. They wanted to bring new ways of expressing their ideas to their societies. These ideas were seen through subjects of interest, such as art and poetry. Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son and William Butler Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" both characterize important aspects of the Impressionist Age. The word "impressionis...
  • Art From Different Cultures Of The World
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    Art is defined as the human ability to make things; it is the creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature. Although it may be distinguished from nature, it clearly reflects it. Art from different cultures of the world incorporates its environment into its art; classical European art like the impressionist Monet; American web-artist Mark Napier; the art of the Yoruba in southwest Nigeria; all employ their respective environments in creating their art. Monet used water lilies and o...
  • Monet's Fascination With Light And Colour
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    Since the dawn of time, man has been inspired by the beauty of art. The Macquarie Concise Dictionary describes art as "the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance". I interpret the word art to refer to the physical reproduction of the artists own perception of the world around them. A masterpiece is defined as "a consummate example of skill or excellence". Therefore, when in search of a masterpiece of the artistic category, we must take into...
  • Monet's Motives And Life Behind The Paintings
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    Monet and His World I have always been interested in the impressionist style of art, especially the work of Claude Monet. When making my book selection I took this under consideration and chose a book written by Raymond Cogniat entitled Monet and His World. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings, Cogniat helps to illustrate not only the life of Monet, but also the world of Impressionism, art and French society during M...
  • Monets Painting Of The Champ D Avoine
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    The "rebirth" of art in Italy was connected with the rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and science and the evolution of empirical methods of study in these fields. Increased awareness of classical knowledge created a new resolve to learn by direct observation and study of the natural world. Consequently, secular themes became increasingly important to artists, and with the revived interest in antiquity came a new repertoire of subjects drawn from Greek and Roman history and mytholog...
  • Inspiration For Many Of Monet's Paintings
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    The shimmering light and breathtaking colors of Claude Monet's work have made him one of the world's most popular artists for almost a century. His studies of the changing effects of sunlight on haystacks, churches, fields, and water gardens were unique in his time and extremely influential to subsequent generations. As a founder of the style known as impressionism, Monet broke with many traditions to create a new method of painting -- and of seeing the world around us. Without his innovations, ...
  • Monet's Paintings
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    Biographical Information Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840. The son of a successful tradesman, Monet grew up in the town of Le Havre located on the Normandy coast. He showed artistic talent as a teenager, drawing caricatures of local personalities, and by the age of fifteen he was receiving commission for his work. Monet's formal training began in 1859 at the Academie Suisse, a studio that provided models for aspiring artists to draw and paint, but gave little direct inst...

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