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By Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet

Impressionism’s founding father

Claude Monet (1840–1926), the main person Impressionist painter, devoted his lengthy existence to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which truth, and particularly panorama, bargains the human eye. In his activity to catch the ever-changing face of fact, Monet went past Impressionism and thereby past the confines of self-contained panel portray: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral sequence during which he addressed one motif in regularly new diversifications. the following, too, Monet laid out the recognized backyard with its water-lily pond which he was once to color on large canvases good into the Nineteen Twenties. He thereby sought to render now not fact as objectively skilled, yet fairly that which occurs “between the motif and the artist.” of their open, simply tenuously representational constitution and ambitious scale, Monet’s water lily paintings—created lengthy ahead of the currents of the modern avant-garde—point find out how to the advancements of the future.

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approximately a hundred illustrations with explanatory captions

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