Today I started research on Claude Monet. Monet is the artist that I chose to study for a part of the humanities requirement. We are required to write two reviews on an artist who was active between 1800 and 1960. One of the reviews is a positive one and the other is a negative one. So I decided to start doing a little bit of research on Monet's background to begin with.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/
By just looking at the first paragraph of this website I learned something very interesting. Apparently, Monet was the person that started Impressionism. He was considered the first Impressionist. I thought this was very intriguing because Impressionism is such an important form of art. The name Impressionism came from his own painting entitled Impression: Sunrise. One thing I was wondering was since he initiated this kind of art, does this mean that the year he painted that painting was the first year of the Impressionist movement? That would be pretty amazing for Monet to have really started his own kind of art... I was also wondering if there was anybody else involved because in some cases there were many people that started a new trend but only one person gets credit. This website was also helpful because it gave information on his life as well as examples of paintings throughout his career as a painter.
http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/
This website was helpful because it gave a timeline of the important dates in his life. It was very straightforward and factual. It wasn't too detailed but it gave me an overview of his life. Now I have a background on him and will be able to make my reviews interesting and informative.
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