... Monet's paintings cast a surprisingly objective eye on these scenes, which include few signs of domestic relations. Following in the path of the Barbizon painters, who had set up their easels in the Fontainebleau Forest earlier in the century, Monet adopted and extended their commitment to close observation and naturalistic representation. Whereas the Barbizon artists painted only preliminary sketches en plein air, Monet often worked directly on ... brought a vibrant brightness to his works by using unmediated colors, adding a range of tones to his shadows, and preparing canvases with ...

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... every brush stroke carried more responsibility in Cézanne's works. "It should contain it all: the atmosphere, the light, the object, the plan, the character, and the lines." [Danchev] He could think for hours in between brush strokes - with all the inner conflict that the act of thinking generates. With his unique and innovative painting style, Cézanne "confronts us with a ... whatever manner: through primordial seeing, analytical seeing, mystical seeing, or the like - that the rest of us can't already existed in the early 16th century. I.e. with the self portrait of Nothern-Europe arti...

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