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    The Water lily’s Claude Monet Has been a big interest of mine after last summer. Last summer I traveled to Pairs and was super exited to see the Monet’s garden on my journey. This was one of the best days in my travel to see this Monet’s garden and house. After touring the garden I was astonished by the view. When I toured Claude Monet’s house I was interested in him as an artist and wanted to know more about him. His paintings and garden were beautiful, breathtaking, and I enjoyed every minute

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    Exit Through The Gift Shop Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary directed by Banksy, who is a street artist. The film made $5,308,618.2 and was released in 2010. The opening of the documentary took footage from street art films that were made all around the world. The film is exciting to watch, because of the interesting insight that it offers into the world of street art. Watching the underground artists, the meaning street art has for them and their passion was entertaining and informative

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    famous paintings is called “Spring of Giverny” which is based off of the actually town of Giverny in France. The Impressionist movement was born in France, and this makes sense because Giverny was a small town in France which is what inspired this painting. “Spring of Giverny” depicts a beautiful, sunny day in the middle of the woods. Ekphrastic poetry is expands the meaning of a piece of art, and an ekphrastic poem that expands the meaning of “Spring in Giverny” is “Faithful Forest” by Alberto Rios

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    The Iris Garden at Giverny is a painting by Claude Monet that was completed in the year 1900. It is currently located at the Yale University Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The painting is as its title states, a garden of irises located in the village of Giverny, where Monet lived and worked for the majority of his life. It’s done in a blurred style, with everything seeming to blend together to form the painting in its entirety, rather than every aspect being works in themselves. This could

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    Monet Vs Cézanne

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    bring sadness to what could otherwise be a pleasant scene, such as a peaceful forest, in Paul Cézanne’s Rocks in the Forest. On the opposite spectrum, emotions can reveal how beautiful nature really is like in Claude Monet’s The Artist’s Garden at Giverny. These two artists were founding fathers of the impressionist period which was when the world of art changed drastically. Artists started to paint with more colors and relied heavily on natural light. Monet is known for his use of strong colors

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    He went and lived with his good friend Ernest Hoschede. She took his two kids back to Paris to live alongside with six kids of her own, one of which, Blanche, would grow up to marry Jean Monet. They then moved to Poissy, Vernon, and finally to Giverny where Monet would spend most of the rest of his life painting. After Alice’s husband died, Monet and she got married in 1892. Alice died in 1911, and his oldest son Jean, which was Monet’s particular favorite, died in 1914. After the death

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    Claude Monet Influences

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    Claude Monet has been one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading the Impressionist Movement, he brought forth new ideals in the art world. Monet had a rough beginning, with many critics disapproving of his unconventional art style, but his revolutionary works would come to be loved and would influence many future artists. Claude Oscar Monet (though some sources say Oscar-Claude Monet) was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris (“Claude Oscar Monet Biography”)

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    Jeanette Ford Hum1020 Intro to Humanities November 18, 2017 Claude Monet “I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. Although his name was Oscar Claude Monet, he would drop his first name early in life and use middle name throughout the remainder of his life. His interest into art began when he was a young boy. He started painting as a child and entered the Le

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    Natural Beauty in Works of Art Beauty is a prominent value in art. There are many works in which beauty is the focus. Three works of art that beauty is especially evident in are The Water-Lily Pond by Monet, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker, and Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Water-Lily Pond is an oil painting of a pond with a bridge and lily pads. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a dance sequence from the Nutcracker. Falling Water is a special house that was designed

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    The Art Story Foundation (ASF) (2015) discusses Claude Monet (1840-1926) as one of the leaders of French Impressionism of the late nineteenth century. With Edouard Manet (1832-1883) as an inspiration, Monet developed his own distinctive style in the 1860s. He blurred the clarity of forms and linear perspective with bold colors emphasizing on qualities of light and atmosphere going against traditional artistic precision. Monet’s Impression Sunrise (1872) was not well received. As a result of

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