
Claude Monet: Vol 1
By Nathalia Brodskaïa, Nina KalitinaLength4h 23m
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With Impression, Sunrise, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (18401926) took part in thecreation of the Impressionist movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art. All his life, he captured natural movements around him and translated them into visual sensations. A complex man and an exceptional artist, Monet is internationally famous for his poetic paintings of waterlilies and beautiful landscapes. He leaves behind the most wellknown masterpieces that still fascinate art lovers all over the world. In this twovolume illustrated work, Natalia Brodskaya and Nina Kalitina invite us on a journey across time to discover the history of Impressionism and Monet; a movement and an artist forever bound together. Specialists of 19th and 20th century art, the authors shed light on the birth of modernity in art, a true revolution responsible for the thriving art scene of the 20th century.
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GenreOther
Length4 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateDec 31, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Natalia Brodskaya & Nina Kalitina
2Image-Bar www.image-bar.com
3List of Illustrations
4Foreword
5Monet, the Man
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6of eighty-two.
7at various stages in his life.
8slight hint of mistrust⁄‰
9„no good for anything‰.
10Impressionism
11The Impressionists and Academic Painting
12in a not-especially-attractive light?
13MonetÊs abrupt changes of mood, his constant dissatisfaction with himself, his spontaneous
14Private collection. (pp. 22-23)
15Dominique Ingres.
16of a calf or the curve of a hand.‰
17IMPRESSIONISM
18CLAUDE MONET
19The Precursors
20GleyreÊs students recalls:
21Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena.
22CLAUDE MONET
23Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
24history of art as documentary evidence of towns long since destroyed.
25The First Impressionist Exhibition
26painterly brushwork.
27CLAUDE MONET
28throughout France with his father.
29CLAUDE MONET
30his vocation.‰
31CLAUDE MONET
32IMPRESSIONISM
33Gustave Courbet.
34Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
35entire existence.
36like arsonists.
37Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
38National Gallery, London. (pp. 68-69)
39also at PissarroÊs invitation.
40IMPRESSIONISM
41CLAUDE MONET
42Washington, D.C.
43Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
44Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai.
45Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
46also a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.
47Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
48Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
49would last their whole lives.
50Musée d’Orsay, Paris.