Monet by Dorling Kindersley

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By Dorling Kindersley

This quantity, one in a sequence of lavishly illustrated paperback books on significant artists and their works, tells the tale of Monet. From a glance on the artist's lifestyles and occasions, to the old and social context within which he labored, to an research of his masterpieces, it is a very important visible source with greater than three hundred magnificent full-color illustrations. The fact-based textual content is aimed toward the final reader, and makes the sequence ideal for art-history scholars and artwork fans of every age.

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Morisot painted en plein air, subjects favonng family and developing a delicate, muted style. /" Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Balancoire, ( ] 1876, Musee Musee d'Orsay, 'Paris. Degas' skill is clearly Pans. Renoir's female illustrated in his evocative subjects are typically and melancholic portrayed as delicate, of a poetic, \^ d'Orsay, Edgar Degas, L'Abslnthe, 1876, and sweetly sensual figures. woman portrait lost in alcoholic stupor in her own an and thoughts. m *'j^ ffft- ^n.. ''Sf- 1872-1883 to Bridge at Argenteuil, Grey Day o U-l acc Painted eoo in 1876, this work is now Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Claude Monet, Portrait of Mme Caudibert, 1868, Musee d'Orsay, Paris. 1859-1871 Q Claude Monet, La Innovations and O o o -< Grenoulllere, 1869, Metropolitan of Art, exhibitions New The Museum York. Bathers from the middle classes are pictured enjoying leisure time. T Ihe 1860s were overshadowed by momentous events: several eminent figures in European culture died, including Baudelaire, who had been a fervent admirer of the new art, as practiced by the group known as la bande a Manet. International politics werrshaken by major developments: in 1866, the United States granted pohtical rights to its black population, and, in 1869, the British Liberal William Gladstone became Prime Minister, ousting the Conservative party, which had the support of Queen for Victoria.

Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol Mme Monet and her Son, 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 47 1872-1883 The o o cities change en: u Upheavals were occurring and architecture Among the throughout masterpieces Europe. pubHshed time were The Birth of Tragedy by at this Nietzsche by the arts in and Alessandro composed his / Promesi sposi Brahms Manzoni. celebrated String which were among the most important musical works of the 19th century. During the second half Quartets, Left: of the century, the historical centres of Europe's great capitals were restructured, including Paris and Vienna.

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