In the late nineteenth century, a group of painters who were considered radical broke many of the rules of painting set by earlier generations. Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissaro worked in close contact with one another in France between 1965 and 1890. They all painted in a style that French art cr...

Impressionism was a form of art in the late nineteenth century that used luminosity, subtlety of tone and preoccupation with sensation. The impressionist subject matter preserved the romantic fascination with nature and the realist preoccupation with late century French society. An example of an imp...

Claude Monet was a French landscape painter and a founder of Impressionism. He held onto the belief of his painting style throughout his long career and is considered to be the most consistently representative painter of that time. He is also one of the leading painters of landscapes in the histor...

Since the beginning of time, there have been specific groups that have had revolutionary ideas and acted upon them. Such movements have always been met with disapproval, but usually seem to settle into the mainstream of society. The late in the nineteenth century saw such an occurrence, as an arti...

The first sculpture that caught my attention, \"Las Mesas Bench,\" is a work by Jesus Bautista Morales. It portrays two ladies sitting on a bench talking while a man is sitting on another bench listening to them. His style and use of polished granite with rough edges seem to create a surprising and...

In comparing the ideality of art and the actual artifact, we will find that the results will normally vary widely according to the eye of the beholder. To impose a judgment of whether a painting can achieve the status of ideal form, one must first understand the purpose behind the piece of art. Ar...

Towards the later half of the nineteenth century, many artists were pursuing new avenues in their artistic representations. They were perturbed at the rigid and constricting regulations of the Salon, and some artists decided to form an independent exhibition. Claude Monet and his friends founded th...

The first impressionist exhibition of 1874 is a signpost for the changing ways in which paintings were being bought and sold. The tradition of the salon showing dominance was now being challenged, as the artists found dismay both in the selection process and the overcrowded nature of the display. T...

Monet was born in Paris (1840), the son of a grocer. In his infancy, financial problems forced his family to leave the capital for Le Havre, where Monet\'s father set up a new business. The experience of living close to the sea, where the play of light on the ocean and in the sky changed so quickly ...

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, also known as the Academy, was build during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The Academy was extremely significant in the 19th century because the works that were accepted into the Salon became the taste making body in French culture. Attendees of the Salon were generally...

One of the most remarkable works in the 19th Century European Paintings section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Jules Bastien-Lepage\'s 1879 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d\'Arc). Although displayed in a long hall featuring a number of other paintings, reliefs, and sculptures, it draws a certain amount o...

"Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art"Claude Monet is most definately my favorite Painter of all time. Widely considered the foremost Impressionist painter, Monet inspired Masters like Degas and Renoir. Monet's paintings, characterized by their blurred lines, quick brush strokes and i...

A landscape is a series of named locales, a set of relational places linked by paths, movements and narratives. (Tilley \'94 conclusion) It\'s a long way from rural New South Wales to rural n/e France or more precisely the other way around but with the right light and a morning mist and possibly the...

Claude Monet always stood alone; his feet resounding heavily on the solid road that he was determined to follow until the very end. With tiny, dabbing brush strokes his paintings, more often than not exploded in the golden richness of the sun. With Monet a brush stroke, while imprecise, can sugges...

Claude-Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. The Monet families had come to Paris in the late eighteenth century. Monet was baptized on May 20, 1841 at the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. In 1845 Claude Monet's father decided to move the family to the Norman port o...