
Claude Monet: Vol 2
By Nathalia Brodskaïa, Nina KalitinaLength4h 33m
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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. The second volume covers Monet's age of maturity, the pinnacle and the crises of his extremely long and productive career. Nathalia Brodskaia, will introduce his method of painting the same scene many times to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. The reader will share the author's emotion about Monet's lily ponds and his famous water lilies. "Old man Monet," as Willem de Kooning called him, had become the wise mentor, passing on his insights to generations of artists. He was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style, of which the author explains every aspect in detail.
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Length4 hrs 33 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
4Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
5Private collection, US.
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6Valley of the Creuse (Gray Day), 1889.
7HIS LIFE – THE PINNACLE AND THE CRISES
8Musée d’Orsay, Paris. (pp. 38-39)
9CLAUDE MONET
10HIS LIFE – THE PINNACLE AND THE CRISES
11splendid place for me.‰
12HIS LIFE – THE PINNACLE AND THE CRISES
13CLAUDE MONET
14HIS LIFE – THE PINNACLE AND THE CRISES
15His Life – His Series
16CLAUDE MONET
17his approach to his research.
18Denver Art Museum, Denver.
19HIS LIFE – HIS SERIES
20CLAUDE MONET
21Washington, D.C. (p. 67)
22objective recording of optical impressions.
23in the rain, and so on.
24composition of the canvasses in the first part of the cycle.
25Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
26Kansas City. (pp. 82-83)
27frosty day.
28Albertina, Vienna. (pp. 90-91)
29ThomasÊ Hospital, with a good view of Parliament.
30afterwards, at Giverny.
31infinite number of reflections.
32Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
33along with the taste for all things Japanese.
34The leaning towards decorativeness characteristic of him in his earlier career becomes
35decorative resonance between vivid grasses and white and pink water lilies.
36than twelve metres in length and some two metres in height.
37Saint-Lazare station.
38Works in Focus
39Pushkin Museum, Moscow
40The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
41tongues of colour.
42Pushkin Museum, Moscow
43The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
44Pushkin Museum, Moscow
45The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
46attest to the artistÊs keen powers of observation and rich imagination.
47Pushkin Museum, Moscow
48The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
49the fog.
50The Time after Impressionism