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About the Painter Berthe Morisot was a friend of Manet’s and a central member of the Impressionist circle. This image of Morisot’s daughter, Julie, and her nanny was painted in the garden of a...
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About the Painter In 1888, Monet began to paint works of art in series—among them, haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and Venice—but by far the largest and most intense are his studies of light and water on...
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About the Painter La Parisienne exemplifies the ideals of Impressionism and the painting of modern life. Although the model for this painting is the actress Henriette Henriot (1857–1944), who posed...
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About the Painter A Post-Impressionist painter whose work was vital to the development of twentieth-century modernism, Paul Cézanne sought to fuse the lessons of the old masters with the direct...
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This video shows The Night Walkers by Honoré Daumier. Mike Tooby of the National Museum of Wales is the speaker.
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ABOUT THE PAINTER Edouard Manet was one of the earliest nineteenth-century French artists to depict the scenes of modern life that would become a mainstay of Impressionist subject matter. Painted...
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About the Painter This painting dating from late in Turner’s career shows the wreck of a boat being engulfed by waves, its ropes flailing like tentacles. The sails, which have come adrift, can be seen...
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About the Painter Whistler’s many pastels and etchings of Venice depict it as a living, working contemporary city. The present work is one of only three known existing oils he made there. Painted from...
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Weis details her career and how cameras have become an important part of her work. She explains the technology and process.