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Musee D'orsay: Works in Focus: Edgar Degas: In a Cafe
Analysis of French impressionist painting In a Cafe by Edgar Degas (also known as Absinthe).
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Manet and the Sea
An impressive investigation into one artist's lifetime fascination with the sea. Find information on the seascape paintings of French artist Edouard Manet and a gallery of Manet's at-sea and seaside paintings where you can hear and read...
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Musee D'orsay: Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin De La Galette
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the French Impressionist painting "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" by Auguste Renoir.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: "La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat
A short essay on Seurat's famous "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." This essay discusses whether this painting is a statement in anti-impressionism or, in fact, a natural progression of the movement's ideas. Interesting...
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Fondation Beyeler: Claude Monet
This exhibition takes a look at how Claude Monet, the "father of Impressionism," influenced the work of future artists, including today's digital impressionists. It includes a lengthy chronology of Monet's life and many examples of his...
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Claude Monet
Biographical account covers the life and career of Claude Monet, French painter, and leader of the Impressionist movement.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Camille Pissarro
Biographical account covers the life and career of Camille Pissarro, Danish-French impressionist painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Eugene Louis Boudin
Biographical summary of the life and career of French landscape painter Eugene-Louis Boudin.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Claude Monet Biography
Interesting biographical details and style of painting of Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Art Periods: Cubism
A detailed history and explanation of the ideologies behind cubism. Lots of cubism links as well.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Manet and the Sea
This site is a preview to a live exhibit in Chicago, these pages explore the theme of seascape as perceived in the late 19th century. Includes a great deal about Manet and other artists of the period plus plenty of images of famous works.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Painting an Impression
Impressionists used new methods of mixing colors based on contemporary scientific writings about optics. This lesson plan explores the theory of optical color mixing, painting the same subject under different conditions of light, and the...
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Pierre Auguste Renoir the Complete Works
View over 1000 of Renoir's paintings! You can conduct searches, watch slideshows, or view page by page. Also includes an extensive biography and many features that make finding and bookmarking your favorite works very easy.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collections: Claude Monet
From the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is a set of 37 images with descriptions of works by Claude Monet (1840-1926). Click on 'View All Works' to access the collection.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art: Claude Monet
A biography from the Getty 's Explore Art site. The site also includes four images of paintings by Monet from the Getty's collection, with information about technique, setting, and other details.
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Claude Monet's: Works of Claude Monet
View 85 representational works of the artist. Each painting is titled and dated, and is supplemented with either a description or a quote from the artist. Written in both English and French (available from homepage).
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Edgar Degas
Artcyclopedia maintains an impressive list of links to museum sites and archives where images of Degas's work can be viewed. The museum sites, especially, often include curatorial commentaries about exhibited works to aid understanding...
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Welcome to Claude Monet's Giverny
This site from Giverny, Monet's home, has an extensive collection of 85 artworks, photographs of the garden, exhibit information, a biography, quotations, and books. Monet's autobiography was originally published in 1900 in a French...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Impressionist and Post Impressionist Art
In the late 19th century, the Impressionists defied academic tradition in French art with their emphasis on modern subjects, sketchlike technique, and practice of painting in the open air with pure, high-keyed color. The Art Institute of...
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Alfred Sisley
Magnificent site - Online gallery has over 70 paintings by Sisley - Very comprehensive - a must see!
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Eugene Louis Boudin
This online gallery has nice selection of the works of Eugene-Louis Boudin (1824-1898 CE). Also contains a short biography of the artist.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Edouard Manet
This site has a gallery of the works of Edouard Manet (1832-1883 CE). Contains a short biography of the artist.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Claude Monet
Online gallery has over 180 paintings by Monet (1840-1926 CE) Includes concise biography.