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Loading... Monet (1993)by Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Um livro lindo. Foi com um livro sobre Monet que eu aprendi a gostar de pintura. ( ) As someone who has always been drawn to Monet’s paintings but has absolutely no background in art history, I found this slim book to be both entertaining and informative. The text helps a novice like me notice artistic techniques while putting Monet’s work in historical context. Monet’s personal life is not explored in detail, but the reader gets a general outline of its vicissitudes. It’s a nice quality book but not too heavy. no reviews | add a review
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Impressionism's founding father Claude Monet (1840-1926), the most individual Impressionist painter, dedicated his long life to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offers the human eye. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the 1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively experienced, but rather that which takes place "between the motif and the artist." In their open, merely tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, Monet's water lily paintings--created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde--point the way to the developments of the future. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions No library descriptions found. |
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