Author: True Kelley Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 044842522X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Steven chronicles Claude Monet's rise to fame and contributions to Impressionism in this colorful report, featuring Steven's funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Waterlilies.
Author: Flame Flame Tree Publisher: ISBN: 9781783616077 Category : Artists Languages : en Pages : 0
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Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Its famous green wooden footbridge was built across the water and its waterlilies became the focus of perhaps the most famous series of paintings the world has ever seen.
Author: Georges Clemenceau Publisher: ISBN: 9781946011008 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"In 1928, the former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau published Claude Monet : les nymphéas (The water-lilies), a memoir of his longtime friend. Bruce Michelson has produced a new English translation, presented here with useful notes and illustrations. Michelson's translations of three short essays on art by Clemenceau, originally published by La justice in the late XIX c., are included as appendices"--
Author: Julian Beecroft Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated ISBN: 9781839649738 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
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Snappy, incisive introduction to life and later works of one of the world's most popular artists. A compact new edition with internet links. Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden was originally created to satisfy a need to be near water, and to provide a visual feast that could be enjoyed from his house. The pond was fed by the river Ru, and weeping willow and silver birch hung over its edges, caressing the fronds of the greenery and blossoms below. Its famous green wooden footbridge was built across the water and it became the central focus of many of his works. He said, ‘It took me some time to understand my water lilies. I planted them for pleasure.’ and so he began to work on what is probably the most famous series of paintings the world has ever seen.
Author: Claude Monet Publisher: MoMA Artist Series ISBN: 9781633450431 Category : Water lilies in art Languages : en Pages : 56
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A hardback edition of the popular MoMA Artist Series, with larger reproductions of Monet's classic artworks. In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art became the first public collection in the United States to acquire one of Claude Monet's large-scale paintings of his Japanese-style pond and garden in Giverny, France. Today, works from this same series are among the most beloved pieces in the Museum's collection. These include the mural-sized triptych Water Lilies (1914-26) and a single panel painting, Water Lilies (1914-26), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920-22) and Agapanthus (1914-26), depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity. This lively volume by Ann Temkin, the Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, recounts the history of Monet's Water Lilies at the Museum - including the destruction of two works in a fire in 1958 - and underscores the paintings' resonance with the art and artists of the last half-century.