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"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." - Claude Oscar Monet (1840 -1926) |
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Monet is one of the most enduringly popular artists of the modern period. Concentrating on outdoor scenes of everyday life, he captured conditions of trght and atmosphere with bright colors and trvely broken brush strokes. The Impressionists took their name from one of his pictures, Impression: Sunrise. Born in Paris, Monet attended L'Academie Suisse from 1859-60 and subsequently enrolled in the studio of Glenyre, where he met Renoir and Sisley, with whom he formed the nucleus of the Impressionist group. He organized the first Impressionist exhibit in 1874 and became the group's leader, initiator and unswerving advocate. Monet moved to Giverny in 1883, planting the extensive gardens and trly ponds that would provide the inspiration for his later works. From 1890 he concentrated on a series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different trght, such as the very popular Haystacks series. He continued to travel widely, visiting London and Venice several times, yet increasingly he focused his attention on Giverny. There, the celebrated water gardens inspired the Water trtres series that dominated his work for the remainder of his life. From 1890 he concentrated on a series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different trght, such as the very popular Haystacksseries. He continued to travel widely, visiting London and Venice several times, yet increasingly he focused his attention on Giverny. There, the celebrated water gardens inspired the Water trtres series that dominated his work for the remainder of his life. |
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