Claude Monet, the famous French Impressionist painter, never set a foot on the soils of Japan but the country's art played a major role in shaping his style of work. ... Monet and other Impressionists were engrossed with the Oriental composition of Japanese prints. ... Monet filled his home with Japanese prints. ... At that time, Monet was looking for a new way to portray modern Paris. ... Monet did not bother with details. ...

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Among the many talented Impressionist artists was Claude Monet. Claude Monet was the most representative of the Impressionists. Claude Monet was born on November 14th, 1840. ... Among the many talented Impressionist artists was Claude Monet. Claude Monet was the most representative of the Impressionists. ...

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Biographical Information Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840. ... Despite this, Monet still struggled with rejection from the public and the conservative Salon ("Monet," Encarta). In 1870 Monet married Camille Doncieux, the mother of his illegitimate son. ... This too was a complete failure ("Monet," Encarta). ... Monet's paintings also broke the traditional rules of composition. ...

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The artwork that I have chosen to analyse in this essay is called The Stroll, Camille and her Son Jean by French Impressionist Claude Monet. ... The artwork depicts his wife, Lady Monet, and their son Jean on a stroll on a beautiful sunny day. ... Monet has placed the main subject of the painting, Lady Monet, in the centre foreground, and placed their son Jean in the background to the left of the painting. ... By portraying his son only from the waist up, Monet conveys a sense of depth and complexity to the setting. ... Monet connecting the two. ...

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Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. ... When he was twenty-two, Monet joined the Paris studio of the academic history painter Charles Gleyre. ... Impression: Sunrise 1873; Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, one of Monet's contributions to this exhibition, drew particular scorn for the unfinished appearance of its loose handling and indistinct forms. ... Monet's painting was very large and could not be completed in time. ... During this time Monet painted various works of modern life. ...

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Through my exploration of Claude Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge," I learned that although my perception of the painting was shaped by my prior knowledge of the Impressionist movement, our concluding interpretations of art can never be absolute. The painter of my piece, Monet, was the known as the founder of the Impressionist Movement in art. ... And this, I relate, to my experience with Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge." When I first saw Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge" at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, I felt indifferent. ... I tried to find two contrasting pieces that appropri...

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Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" is an extraordinary work of art that has captivated me for some time. ... Monet's "Water Lilies" has provided me with many moments of comfort as I have searched for inner peace. ...

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I walked in to the Harn museum and went straight to the Monet, the same way I have always done since the museum got the painting. ... Claude Monet's "Champ d"Avoine" is in it's own exhibit. It was finished in 1890 by Monet and is now on display as a permanent feature in the Harn. ... The Monet has been a favorite of mine since it first came to our little museum. ... I was amazed when I heard that we would be getting a Monet so the first chance I got I went to see it, I must have sat in front of it for hours. ...

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The Impressionist group was first formed around 1870 in France by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille due to their shared discontent with academic teaching. ... They were given the name Impressionists after Monet's painting Impression:Sunrise. ... Monet, Degas and Renoir enlisted, and Bazille was killed in action at only 29. Meanwhile Monet and Pissarro escaped to England where they met Paul Derand-Ruel, the Parisian art dealer. ... In 1873 the Salon rejected works by Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley. ...

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Prominent among the Impressionists were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Eugéne Boudin, and Gustave Caillebotte. ... Monet uses primary and complementary colours in Rose Path at Giverny. By piling the colours one on top of the other separately, Monet makes them react to one another so that they appear to shimmer and sparkle. ... Unlike in paintings that are abstract, Monet wants the spectator to be aware of the subject, so that the imagination is stimulated to sense the atmosphere of what it must be like to stand in a tunnel of r...

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The Impressionist movement's name came from Claude Monet's early work "Impression: Sunrise". The central early Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas. ... He met the early impressionists (Monet, Renoir, and Degas) in 1874. ... He had collected works by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne, Degas, and Sisley. His generosity was often useful to less financially stable colleagues such as Monet. ...

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The Regatta at Argenteuil by Claude Monet and The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh were two paintings that stuck out in my mind as I was looking through the book. ... Unlike Van Gogh, Monet took a more classical approach. ... Monet's picture is just as powerful as Van Gogh's. ... The more upbeat and bright Monet uses mostly high key colors. ... Just like Van Gogh, Monet used many of the principles of the design. ...

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These painters included Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and many more. ... Two French artists influenced Renoir's early work, Claude Monet, for the way he used light, and Eugene Delacroix, for the manner in his use of color. ...

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But even though he was pressured from Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, he would not display his work with the Impressionists during their group shows. ... Manet was frequently confused with the painter Monet. ... When Impressionism was on the rise, Manet mentored and inspired many young painters such as "Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cezanne. ...

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Art Nouveau (1880's-1914) Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines. Somewhat rooted in the British Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris, Art Nouveau became popular across Europe and in the United States. Leading practitio...

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He visited Devonshire two times, both times, he made oil sketches, and watercolors and these inspired him to paint pictures in Claude's style. In 1814 he exhibited a painting that was very close to being an imitation of Claude's Jacob with Laban and his Daughters." ... He was so convinced that this and "Sun Rising Through Vapour" were his greatest works that he bequeathed them to the country only if they were to be hung next to Claude's Seaport" and "Mill." ... "He freed himself in the way in which Monet, some forty years later, was to conceive painting only in terms of hi...

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Debussy Debussy's "Beau Soir- MHST 5-1111 Achille-Claude Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 at 4:30 a.m. in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a small town near Paris, France. ... In December 1871 when Claude was just nine years old, his father was tried for "revolutionary activities- and sentenced to four years in prison (Sadie 292). ... Romanticism was still widely accepted, but artists like Monet, poets like Bourget and composers like Debussy had new ideas about how to express themselves. ... Debussy looked at artists like Monet, Manet and Whistler for his own musical ideas about I...

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His inner conflicts reflected on his art, and this can be examined through comparison with works of contemporary impressionist artist Monet, Northern-Renaissance artist Bosch, and Dutch period painter Rembrandt. ... On that matter, history reveals some similarities with his contemporary impressionist colleague Claude Monet: both were hard workers - working early and braving Nature no matter what the weather was -, sometimes choleric, and quite often discouraged. Even though Monet and Cézanne had different approaches and angles on painting in terms of Style (Cézanne being conside...

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Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30th, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Van Gogh had a father, who went by the name of Theodorus Van Gogh, who worked as a minister in a church, and a mother, who went by the name of Anna Cornelia Carbentus, who was an artist. Vincent was the eldest child in the Van...

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Along with the painters Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and a few others, Pissarro had developed a painting style that involved working outdoors rapidly and on a reduced scale, employing small touches of pure color. ...

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France is the largest Western European country. Its area is about 213,000 square miles. France's population is about 58 million. There are 38 cities have over 100,000 people living in them, and 5 cities have over 300,000 people in them. The 5 largest cities are Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse...

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