Illustrative Materials

Impression: Sunrise – Claude Monet 

“Impression, soleil levant”
Claude MONET 1873
Musee Marmottan, Paris

The name Impressionism comes from this painting, which was first shown at the Salon exhibition in Paris in 1874. The artists took the name after a critic used it mockingly to describe all the exhibited works.

 http://www.intermonet.com/oeuvre/debuts.htm

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Waterlilies
Claude Monet (1896) 
"Nympheas"

Many of Monet’s final years were spent painting his beloved Waterlily Ponds, which he had planted and grown over his many years at his home in Giverny.

  http://monetartprints.com/monet-water-lily-print-waterlilies-1907.htm

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Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers on Gold, 1888

Van Gogh painted many pictures of the cheerful, yellow sunflowers, like the ones, which bloom all around the town of Arles in August and September.  Van Gogh was enchanted by the different yellow and gold colors he saw in the flowers.           

http://www.allwall.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_NV--235_F23_A84/PG--4/1.asp