Monet Life and Works Intro
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Andy different Monet, life and works by mary ann sacks. Introduction. Born in 1840 and having died in 1926, Claude Oscar Monet was the longest lived of the impressionist and the most relentlessly productive. The catalog of his Oeuvre runs to more than 2000 items, some of them canvases on very large scale. During 60 years of activity, Monet averaged in excess of 30 paintings a year, about one every 12 days. He had a capacity for grindingly hard work equaled by few artists and blessed with a bulldozer physique, he was able to paint outdoors even in inclement conditions. Although his paintings, particularly in his early period, seems easy and spontaneous in accordance with the aesthetics of Impressionism, it was a spontaneity that, like the apparent effortlessness of a pianist, was the product of incessant practice of hand, and I, as he grew older, he often worked his canvases very heavily in an attempt to understand and record the minutia of nature shifting lights and colors. Despite achieving an enormous reputation by the end of his life, he always remained dissatisfied, overcoming periods of despair by yet again, returning to attack a new aspect of nature