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  • Painting By Claude Oscar Monet
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    On a Sunday morning I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I saw many amazing, interesting and beautiful paintings and sculptures. As I was walking around, I spotted a painting by Claude Oscar Monet. This painting was called "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse", which is also known as the "Garden at Sainte-Adresse". Since I was so interested in this painting scenery, I approached someone who worked there and asked questions about it. Claude Monet was the best-known painter of the French Impressionist ...
  • Paintings At Mus
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    Several years ago when I was ten I had an opportunity to travel to France. I went to a few museums which I liked including The Louvre and The Pompidou Center. The museum I found most interesting was Mus " ee D' Orsay. All the paintings at Mus " ee D' Orsay were impressionist paintings. Claude Monet was the artist who intrigued me the most. What I liked particularly about his paintings was a lot of them consisted of his wife and his son. My absolute favorite painting was Woman with a Parasol. The...
  • 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...
  • Les Relations De Monet Et Son P
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    Vie de Monet Oscar Claude Monet ou Claude Monet tait l'inspiration de la movement Impressionism. Il est n le 14 novembre 1840 Paris. Beaucoup des autre artistes c l bre de le movement Impressionism talent n's pendant cette d cade aussi. Son p re, Claude Adolf Monet, tait un p icier. Quand Monet a cinq ans, sa famille a d m nag pour Le Have. Le m re de Monet est morte en 1857. Les relations de Monet et son p re se d t riorerent de plus en plus et Monet a d cid de quitter le llc e le m me an. Il n...
  • Grainstacks In His Series Paintings
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    Claude Monet: Grainstack (Sunset) Claude Monet's Grainstack (Sunset) is the painting I chose from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Monet was an impressionist painter in France, and did most of his work at his home at Giverny. Impressionism got is name from a painting that Monet painted, Impression Sunrise. Impressionist paintings are put into a category based on characteristics such as light that draws attention to objects, rough textures, and visual pleasure that the viewer receives upon looking...
  • Monet's Paintings Of The Water Gardens
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    Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre, France. In Le Havre, Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boutin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter, Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destined to form the impressionist school...
  • Painting Monet
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    Art analysis of Water Lilies Have you ever looked at a pond and squinted your eyes? Well if you have you would know exactly how Claude Monet felt. Around the time of this painting Monet was loosing his eyesight. It seems to me that this painting was actually meant to be realistic, Monet just painted what he saw, how he saw it. It's kind of weird how he achieved this fuzzy look, he doesn't use any real hard edges on any of the forms, but they aren't really faded that much either, It could just be...
  • Monet And Degas
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    Although from the same artist group, these Impressionists originated from backgrounds that seemed worlds apart. Claude Monet, known as the "Master Impressionist" varied the themes in his artwork more than any other artist did. Monet's work "Impression Sunrise", of which the term "Impressionist" originates also gives rise to the title "Master Impressionist". Edgar Degas started his career as an artist with nothing in common with Monet but the era in which they lived. From themes to brushstrokes a...
  • Claude Monet
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    "Father Of Impressionism" Claude Monet was born in Paris on the 14th November, 1840. When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. For much of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He develop...
  • Monet
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    Claude Oscar Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. The artist spent most of his childhood in Le Havre. In Le Havre, when he was a teen, he studied drawing; he also painted seascapes outside with the French painter Eugene Louis Boutin. By the 1859, Monet had committed himself to being an artist, and in doing so he tried to spend as much time in Paris as he could possibly get. In the 1860's he became associated with the pre impressionist painter Edouard Manet, and with other Frenc...
  • Water Lily Pond
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    Claude Monet always stood alone; his feet resounding heavily on the solid road that he was determined to follow until the very end. With tiny, dabbing brush strokes his paintings, more often than not exploded in the golden richness of the sun. With Monet a brush stroke, while imprecise, can suggest an infinity of objects that go beyond the instant and eternalize it. Born in Paris on the 14th November 1840, Claude Monet was one of the masters of the style of art known as Impressionism. The name I...
  • Painting By Claude Monet
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    Claude Monet In 1840, Claude Monet was born in Paris. Throughout his life since childhood Monet was in love with Mature. A quote from Monet himself, During my youth I was a vagabond: it is as if I were born undisciplined. Even when I was a small boy I could never be made to obey a rule. The little I learned I learned myself (Rouart and Rey 9). As a young boy, drawing was very appealing to Monet and was encouraged by his aunt. Soon he was well known all over Le Havre as a caricaturist. He was ver...
  • Monet Painting The Picture
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    impressionism Impressionism originated in Paris, starting in 1870 going to 1890. When impressionism was introduced the artists where just coming from paintings and drawings of photo images and changing to subjects such as a Luncheon of the Boating Party or The Prima Ballerina. The subjects where no longer boring portraits of people but interesting daily objects. The aim of an impressionist was to capture the fleeting vision of joyful everyday scenes by using colour and light in which they create...
  • 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...
  • Contrast Between Monet's Work And Chinese Paintings
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    Contextual Study Essay: Chinese Landscape My study had been based on Chinese landscape. I chose to research on this particular subject because I have an interest in it as it reflected who I am and my culture. I already know some things about Chinese painting but I had more to explore and discover underneath my knowledge. I looked at Chinese landscape painting in general, exploring the different styles that have been used in traditional and modern paintings. I also explored landscape painting by ...
  • Painting Of Water Lilies
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    "Water Lilies" a painting by Claude Monet Claude Monet's painting are among the most well known and enjoyed works of art. On display at the Atkins-Nelson art gallery is one of Monet's painting titled "Water lilies", which is one of the forty eight painting of the pond. Many of Monet's art work was done in his studio, at his home, with his landscape being the subject. Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and moved to Le Havre when he was a child. It was there where he produced his first paintings. Mon...
  • Monet's Painting
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    One sweltering summer day, as my mother and I were visiting the impressionism exhibit at the National Museum of Art in Washington DC, she turned to me and asked about my favorite piece of art. The impressionist artist Claude Monet immediately came into mind. He has been one of my favorite artists for my whole life. Monet's paintings radiate peace and harmony and allow the viewer to place themselves inside the scene and enjoy the sheer beauty of the setting. Monet's refreshing scenes have created...

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