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"Im half an hour late, Ill come back tomorrow."
Claude MonetThe sea is superb, but the cliffs dont match up to those at Fecamp. He — Claude Monet
"The sea is superb, but the cliffs dont match up to those at Fecamp. Here Ill be certain to do more boats."
The sea is superb, but the cliffs dont match up to those at Fecamp. Here Ill be certain to do more boats.
Claude Monet
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term
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"..tell me whether she [Pissarros wife] did not find Monets things a little too dark? [Monets paintings at the Paris exhibition, at M. Petit, May 1887]. I do not know whether I am correct in this, but these works seem to me to lack luminosity, by which I mean the light that bathes bodies in the shade as well as those in the sun. The effect is certainly decorative, but there is little finesse and crudities are prominent; I do not know if it belongs to our vision which aspires to harmony and demands an art which while not decoration is yet decorative."
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"I am surrounded by a small group of young s who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that its a good thing."
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"By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. Its no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings."
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"is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time."
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