Identifier: fiftyyearsofmode00phyt (find matches)
Title: Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Phythian, John Ernest, 1858-
Subjects: Painting Painting
Publisher: London, G. Richards
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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towhom it was applied disowned it at first because it was usedonly in a depreciatory sense. Eventually, however, unablethemselves to find a better one, they adopted it. By common consent Monet stands at the head of theImpressionist group. He is purely a landscape painter, andit has been therefore easier for him than for those who werealso figure painters to devote himself exclusively to the inter-pretation of effects of light. I say interpretation, not record,because the work of the Impressionists has never beenmerely realistic, as was the Pre-Raphaelitism of HolmanHunt and Millais. Not only have they sought to register,not the mere fact, but the impression made by the fact;they have also stated the impression itself in terms of art.Their works are not lacking in design; neither form norcolour has been accepted just as nature, which by no meansprovides us with ready-made works of art, has set before thepainter. The art may set aside the old conventions; but itis there, none the less.
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THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 85 We have seen Monet taking refuge first in Holland andthen in England during the German invasion of France, andreturning to his own country strengthened in his artisticfaith. Though a native of Paris he did not settle downthere, but lived in the country, first at one place and thenat another, in the valley of the Seine. From Argenteuil hepassed to Vetheuil; and then, in 1886, he took up whatproved to be a permanent abode at Giverny, near Vernon,in the meadows where the poplar-lined Epte is near tomingling its waters with those of the Seine. It is the kindof country that the traveller, with lakes and mountains inmind, calls tame; to Monet, with his subtle feeling for lightand colour, it is full of beauty. When the poplars in theSeine valley were being cut down by thousands to makepalisading for a Paris exhibition, Monet bought those nearhis own house to save them from threatened destruction.His chief recreation has been gardening, and his own garde

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