«Self-Portrait» (1886)
Monet is credited with indirectly giving the Impressionist movement its name. The painting was exhibited in 1874, in the gallery of the photographer Félix Nadar. There were 165 works by different artists who were not accepted by the more classically minded official Salon. One critic said that since Monet had been good enough to share his impressions, then he must be an Impressionist. The name stuck.
A few years later, Monet created a wonderful, natural world at Giverny, where his house, filled with the Japanese prints he so admired, was set in acres of gardens which contained a dreamy water-lily pond, spanned by a Japanese bridge.
Three of Monet’s numerous paintings of his water-lily pond.
An advertisement which parodies Monet’s renditions of the garden.
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Newsweek, May 10, 1999
Links to Monet Web Sites:
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http://www.giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet |
