Monet, Claude - The West Church Tower, Amsterdam - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: The West Church Tower, Amsterdam
• Artist (if known): Claude Monet
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Philadelphia Museum of Art - Wilstach Collection / Pallas Gallery Ltd, London (No. 1065)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: modern
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Oscar-Claude Monet (/mo?'ne?/; French: [klod m?n?]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.^[1][2] The term ""Impressionism"" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property, and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.

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After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (19 July 1870), Monet and his family took refuge in England in September 1870,^[16] where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color. In the spring of 1871, Monet's works were refused authorisation for inclusion in the Royal Academy exhibition.^[15]

In May 1871, he left London to live in Zaandam, in the Netherlands,^[15] where he made twenty-five paintings (and the police suspected him of revolutionary activities).^[17] He also paid a first visit to nearby Amsterdam. In October or November 1871, he returned to France. From December 1871 to 1878 he lived at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best-known works. In 1873, Monet purchased a small boat equipped to be used as a floating studio.^[18] From the boat studio Monet painted landscapes and also portraits of Édouard Manet and his wife; Manet in turn depicted Monet painting aboard the boat, accompanied by Camille, in 1874.^[18] In 1874, he briefly returned to Holland.^[19]

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