Odd advice from Monet? "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you."
Claude Monet
In the suburbs, Parisians escaped the pressures of modern life. Monet painted their sun-drenched pleasures.
How to recognize Monet: The Basin at ...
Hazy with smoke, the architecture of the train station and technology of the iron engine dissolve before our eyes.
Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare
Isolated for centuries, Japan opened to trade in the 1850s, providing fresh inspiration for Western artists.
Looking east: how Japan inspired Monet, Van ...
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Art and context: Monet’s Cliff Walk at ...
Monet’s painting technique is perfectly suited for depicting this windy seaside day on the English Channel.
Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville
Obsessed with this view, Monet paid the owner of the trees not to cut them down until he finished his paintings.
Claude Monet, Poplars
Monet paints the surface of the water itself, refusing the viewer the anchoring presence of a horizon or shoreline.
Claude Monet, Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies)
Monet discards hundreds of years of tradition of how to paint light, and shows us what he’s really seeing.
Claude Monet, The Argenteuil Bridge
Monet had an apartment near the cathedral and worked on several canvases at once to capture the changing light.
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