Monet in the 20th Century
Contributors: George T. M. Shackelford (Contributor); Maryanne Stevens (Contributor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780300077490
Subjects: Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; Impressionism; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Post-Impressionism; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; Art; Exhibition Catalogs; Monet, Claude,; Art & Art Instruction; French painting; Exhibitions; History - Impressionism; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; Monet, Claude; Techniques - Painting; 1840-1926
First sentence: At first sight, Monet's late Grandes Decorations are a far cry from the landscapes of his "high Impressionist" period of the 1870s, painted around fifty years earlier, In The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil of 1873 (fig. 1), the whole picture is built up of a series of contrasts: land and water, steam and sail; natural and man-made; warm and cool color; broad sweeps of paint and crisp little brush-marks.