Joie de vivre

Joie de vivre

EC706284
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Joie de vivre, Palais des beaux-arts de Lille (Sept. 26, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016).

"Wherever there is joy, there is creation: the richer the creation, the deeper the joy."
H. Bergson, Spiritual Energy

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Characteristics

Number of pages
240
Dimensions
22,6 × 28,7 × 1,9 cm
Themes
Love, Gender and interior scene
Number of illustrations
151
Artists
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Jan Brueghel l'Ancien dit de Velours (1568-1625)
Reference
EC706284
EAN
9782711862849
Size of the book
Bound full paper without cover
Publication date
Septembre 2015
Diffusor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Conservation museums
Paris - Réunion des musées nationaux- Grand Palais, Lille - Palais des Beaux-Arts

The work and its artist

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet (1840-1926) grew up in Le Havre where he painted landscapes of nature. After a stay in Paris, he moved to Argenteuil in 1872 where Renoir, Sisley, Manet, Pissarro and Caillebote joined him. Together, they organized an exhibition of the works denied by the Official Salon in 1874 where Monet presented 'Impression, rising sun'. The artist became leader of the Impressionnist art movement destined to capture natural light rather than trying to represent reality at its best. In 1883 he moved to Giverny, his place of creation and his artwork where he dedicated himself to painting his pond. He painted twelve artworks of the white water lilys as only subject for 10 years. At 49, the artist finally found success when he is acclaimed by the critics during a retrospective devoted to him by the gallery Petit.