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Claude Monet et œuvres d'art (PARKSTONE) (French Edition) Kindle Edition

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Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 – Giverny, 1926)
Pour Claude Monet, le qualificatif d'impressionniste est toujours resté un sujet de fierté. Malgré tout ce que les critiques ont pu écrire sur son oeuvre, Monet n'a cessé d'être véritablement impressionniste jusqu'à la fin de sa très longue vie. Il l'a été par conviction profonde, et peut-être a-t-il sacrifié à son impressionnisme beaucoup d'autres possibilités que lui offrait son immense talent. Monet n'a pas peint de compositions classiques avec des personnages, il n'est pas devenu portraitiste, bien que tout cela fût compris dans sa formation professionnelle. Il s'est choisi, en fait, un seul genre, celui du paysage, et il y a atteint un degré de perfection auquel aucun de ses contemporains n'a pu parvenir. Pourtant, le garçonnet avait commencé par dessiner des caricatures. Puis Boudin lui conseilla d'abandonner la caricature et d'opter pour le paysage : c'est que la mer et le ciel, les animaux, les gens et les arbres sont beaux justement dans l'état où les a créés la nature, c'est-à-dire entourés d'air et de lumière. C'est en effet de Boudin que Monet hérita la conviction de l'importance du travail en plein air, conviction qu'il transmit plus tard à ses amis impressionnistes. Monet ne voulut pas entrer à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Il préféra fréquenter une école privée, l'Académie Suisse, fondée par un ancien modèle, quai des Orfèvres, près du pont Saint-Michel. On pouvait y dessiner et peindre un modèle vivant pour une somme modique. C'est là que Monet rencontra le futur impressionniste Camille Pissarro. C'est ensuite dans l'atelier de Gleyre, que Monet rencontra Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley et Frédéric Bazille. Il parlait aussi à ses amis d'un autre peintre qu'il avait également trouvé en Normandie. Il s'agissait de l'étonnant Hollandais Jongkind. «Il fut à partir de ce moment mon vrai maître », disait Monet. «C'est à lui que je dois l'éducation définitive de mon oeil ». Ces paysagistes normands, Boudin et Jongkind, se rangent au nombre des maîtres directs des impressionnistes.
En 1871-1872, les paysages de Monet ne se distinguaient pas encore par une grande richesse de coloris ; ils rappelaient plutôt les tonalités de la peinture des artistes de Barbizon ou les marines de Boudin. Il composait une gamme de coloris sur la base de tons marron-jaune et bleu-gris.
En 1877, lors de la troisième exposition des impressionnistes, Monet présenta, pour la première fois, une série de tableaux : sept vues de la gare Saint-Lazare. Il les choisit parmi les douze toiles peintes dans la gare. Ce motif, dans l'oeuvre de Monet, est dans la ligne non seulement du Chemin de fer de Manet et de ses propres paysages, avec trains et gare, à Argenteuil, mais aussi de la tendance qui commença à se manifester avec l'apparition des chemins de fer. Un beau matin, il réveilla Renoir avec un cri de victoire : «J'ai trouvé, la gare Saint-Lazare ! Au moment des départs, les fumées des locomotives y sont tellement épaisses qu'on n'y distingue à peu près rien. C'est un enchantement, une véritable féerie ». Il n'avait pas l'intention de peindre la gare Saint-Lazare de mémoire ; il voulait saisir les jeux de lumière du soleil sur les nuages de vapeur qui s'échappaient des locomotives...
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I didn't read the information about the book as well as I should have. In my haste to have a download of Monet's paintings I neglected to read that the book is in FRENCH. The reproductions of the paintings are well done,the color is good and I do know a little French and a lot about Monet so overall I am happy with the book.
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marguerite 54
4.0 out of 5 stars LIVRE MINIATURE POUR GRAND PEINTRE
Reviewed in France on October 14, 2016
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Ce livre bien que petit en dimension, est très agréable, bien documenté, et il y a beaucoup de représentations de tableaux connus de Claude Monet !

A recommandé à tous les passionnés de ce peintre
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Barry from Vancouver
2.0 out of 5 stars Monet by Vanessa Potts:
Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2013
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The book I wanted was Monet by Vanessa Potts: a full sized book of his art in English which I had seen before. What I got was a 3-1/2" by 5" miniature version of the book I wanted with the pictures 1/4 the size of the original book...and the text is in French! None of this was made even remotely clear in the description. When I went back and looked at the descriptions none of this was made clear.

I will keep this book and will be i Paris in October and buy the book I want at the art museum where I first saw it.
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