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Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny , and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.
List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). [1] [2] The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [3]
The paintings were well received by critics, who especially praised the way he captured the arrival and departures of the trains. [49] By the fourth exhibition, his involvement was by means of negotiation on Caillebotte's part. [15] His last time exhibiting with the Impressionists was in 1882—four years before the final Impressionist exhibition.
The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists. London: Thames & Hudson. OCLC 43339405; Poulet, A. L., & Murphy, A. R. (1979). Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: The Museum. ISBN 0-87846-134-5; Reed, Nicholas, (2008). Sisley on the Thames and the Welsh ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the British Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley, who was born to British parents in France, where he subsequently spent the majority of his life. Timeline. 1839 Born in Paris; 1839–1870 Paris; 1870–1875 Louveciennes, Yvelines (visit to England, 1874) 1875–1877 Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines