Monet in the 20th Century
Contributors: MaryAnne Stevens (Contributor); George T. M. Shackelford (Contributor); Romy Golan (Contributor); John House (Contributor); Michael Leja (Contributor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780300079449
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 & Art Instruction; Art; History - Impressionism; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; 1840-1926; Exhibitions; French painting; Monet, Claude,
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.