- Subjects
- Published
-
London :
Cassell Illustrated
2006.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141) and index.
- Physical Description
- 144 p. : ill. (some col.)
- ISBN
- 9781844034451
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Tools and Materials for Impressionist Painting
- Easels - now and then
- Monet's supports
- Choosing a canvas
- Traditional methods of making oil paint
- Traditional oil and landscape painting
- The invention of the paint tube
- The new paints of the nineteenth century
- Monet's palette/today's palette
- Brushes - old and new
- The technical rules of painting in oil
- Checklist of materials
- Exercise: The Beach at Trouville
- Understanding the Art of Claude Monet
- Early life
- Impressionism and the science of colour
- Changing colour
- Eugene Chevreul
- Exercise: The Magpie
- An essay in whites
- Monet and Japanese prints
- Early years
- Exercise: The Regatta at Argenteuil
- Your own painting of reflections
- Painting en plein air
- Artists' colonies
- Chiaroscuro to peinture claire
- Impression: Sunrise
- The first Impressionist exhibition
- The official Salon
- Exercise: Poppies at Argenteuil
- Contrasting red and green
- Success - and loss
- How Monet subverted a traditional subject
- Exercise: Storm off the Belle-Isle Coast
- Painting swirling waters
- Travels and architecture
- Exercise: The Palazzo da Mula
- What you might do with a bookcase
- Monet's later life and the break-up of the group
- Monet and Turner
- Monet and London
- Exercise: The Houses of Parliament
- Blending colours
- Narrative painting before Monet
- The series paintings
- Monet's narrative of light
- How the series paintings were painted
- Framing and display
- Monet and Realism
- Exercise: Waterloo Bridge
- Monet's life at Giverny
- Exercise: Water Lilies
- Moving the angle of your gaze
- Monet's eye problems
- Monet's last years
- The legacy of Monet
- Glossary
- Where to see paintings by Monet
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements and credits