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Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint decorative panels for the Château de Rottembourg [7] and several landscape paintings. [8] The four panels representing Les Dindons (The Turkeys) [9] [10], l'Étang à Montgeron (Pond at Montgeron), [11] [12] Coin de Jardin à Montgeron (A Corner in the Garden at Montgeron) [13] and La Chasse (The Hunt) [14] [15] were however never ...
Claude Debussy c. 1910. This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, [1] which is generally in chronological order of composition date.
Claude Debussy performed the premiere of Des pas sur la neige himself in 1910. Des pas sur la neige is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the sixth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910. The title is in French and translates to "Footprints in the Snow" The piece is ...
Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown.
Accession No. BF730. [edit on Wikidata] The Studio Boat (Le Bateau-atelier) is a painting from 1876 by the French Impressionist Claude Monet. The work depicts Monet at work in his studio boat on the Seine in Argentueil. [1] It was executed en plein air in oil on canvas. It currently is in the collection of the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia.
46 cm × 65 cm (18 in × 26 in) Location. Private collection, Japan. View from Rouelles[a] is a 1858 painting by Claude Monet. [1] The painting depicts the landscape surrounding a small stream, either the Rouelles or the Lézarde, [2] in the Rouelles district of Le Havre in Normandy, France. Painted when Monet was seventeen, it is the earliest ...