Monet: 16 Art Stickers (Dover Art Stickers) - Softcover

Monet, Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486408329 ISBN 13: 9780486408323

Publisher: Dover Children's, 2000

Synopsis

Sixteen vibrantly colored subjects by one of the greatest of Impressionists: Water Lilies (the Clouds), The Stroll, Camille Monet and Her Son Jean, The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil, The Water Lily Garden, Girls in a Boat, 10 others.

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About the Author

Most well-known today for his series of serene water lilies paintings, 19th-century Impressionist Claude Monet was a groundbreaking tour de force in the development of expressive art. Throughout his long life, which spanned the years between 1840 and 1926, Monet would progress from drawing amusing caricatures of friends to capturing the elusive nuances of natural scenes in various attitudes of light and color. Along with the other Impressionists, Monet's aim in his painting was to capture reality and analyse the ever-changing nature of light and color. He recorded his surrounding faithfully, from the grime of a Paris railway station to the incandescent beauty of his later paintings based on the gardens he created at Giverny in north-eastern France.

Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century when he became one of the world's most famous painters and a source of inspiration for burgeoning groups of artists. By striving to translate his unique perception of the natural world directly to the canvas, Claude Monet was instrumental in forging an entirely new direction for the world of art.

From the Back Cover

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) was encouraged early in his career to paint outdoors, accurately rendering atmospheric effects and producing superb works that brilliantly record the transient effects of light. Late in life, beset by increasing blindness, he painted large, vibrantly colored subjects that eventually came to represent the most sophisticated stage of Impressionism.
Among the 16 beautiful sticker reproductions of his major works included here are Water Lilies (the Clouds); The Stroll, Camille Monet and Her Son Jean; Camille Monet in the Garden at Argenteuil; The Road Bridge at Argenteuil; Water-Lily Pond, Young Women in a Boat, and Regatta at Argenteuil.
Original Dover (1999) publication.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Children's
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486408329
• ISBN 13: 9780486408323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 4