Название: Claude Monet
Авторы: Nathalia Brodskaia, Nina Kalitina
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2011
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 54 MB
For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a portraitist, although his professional training included those skills. He chose a single genre for himself, landscape painting, and in that he achieved a degree of perfection none of his contemporaries managed to attain. Yet the little boy began by drawing caricatures...
