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Édouard Manet, Claude Monet in Argenteuil, 1874, Neue Pinakothek. Monet has been described as "the driving force behind Impressionism". [89] Crucial to the art of the Impressionist painters was the understanding of the effects of light on the local colour of objects, and the effects of the juxtaposition of colours with each other. [90]
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown.
Brownjohn, John and Stephan Koja and Galerie Osterreichische, Claude Monet. New York: Prestel, 1996. Koja, Stephan and Katja Miksovsky, Claude Monet: the Magician of Colour. New York: Prestel, 1997. National Museum Wales, "San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight Breaking Dawn," . Newcomb, Molly. "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk: Claude Monet." (2 April 2012)
View from Rouelles [a] is an 1858 painting by Claude Monet. [1] The painting depicts the landscape surrounding a small stream, either the Rouelles or the Lézarde, [2] in the Rouelles district of Le Havre in Normandy, France. Painted when Monet was seventeen, it is the earliest known painting by the artist. [3]
Scholars generally attribute The Gust of Wind to the summers of 1872 and 1873, [α] a time frame described as classic Impressionism, [2] and a period marked by Renoir's collaboration with Monet. [3] While debates persist regarding the precise date and location of the painting's creation, [ 4 ] it is thought to either depict the specific Saint ...
The Musée d'Orsay has five paintings of the series on permanent display. [8] In 2018, the National Gallery in London exhibited five paintings of the series, together in a single room, for the duration of a temporary exhibition titled Monet & Architecture, devoted to Claude Monet's use of architecture as a means to structure and enliven his art ...