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GRAVITAS Winter 2015

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Monet Matisse OPPOSITE LEFT: Matisse, Girl By A Window. OPPOSITE RIGHT: Monet. ABOVE: Renoir, Figures On The Beach CENTER: CLAUDE MONET, Self Portrait. Private Collection BOTTOM: HENRI MATISSE, Self Portrait. Staten Museum For Kunst, Copenhagen Portraits not included in exhibit. Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement. In fact, the very term "Impressionist" comes from the title of his painting "Impression." Monet and other like-minded artists were consistently rejected from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts' annual exhibition at the Salon de Paris. These artists banded together to exhibit their works independently, and the Impressionists were formed. Monet often painted the same scene many times, driven by his commitment to document the French countryside as the light or seasons changed. While living in Giverny, just outside of Paris, he purchased property and began painting landscapes that included the lily ponds for which he would later become so famous. Henri Matisse was a French artist known for his bold use of color. He is primarily known as a painter, but was also an accomplished draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Matisse, along with Pablo Pacasso and Marcel Dunchamp, is regarded as one of the three artists who revolutionized the field with the development of the plastic arts. The plastic arts were responsible for significant developments in sculpture and painting. Although initially labelled a Fauve for his expressive use of color with no regard for the subject's natural color, Matisse was known as an upholder of classical tradition in French painting by the 1920s and is to this day hailed as a leading figure in modern art. & GRAVITAS MAGAZINE GravitasMag.com | 79

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