9131 Monet Beach at Sainte Adresse

by Claude Monet

The Art Institute of Chicago

10 1/2" x 8"

Claude Monet was the leader in one of the most sweeping revolution sin the history of art: Impressionism. With Manet, Cézanne, Dégas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley, Monet made art address the previously unacknowledged, yet most commonplace, kind of visual experience: the glance. As it defines these artists' primary goal, the term "impression" signified the sensory information registered on the retina prior to cogitation of any sort. "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever." Monet explained to an American neighbor in Giverny, "merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naive impression of the scene before you."

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