... the same, but at the same time they can have a tremendous amount of similarity in theme, style, content and design. The Regatta at Argenteuil by Claude Monet and The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh were two paintings that stuck out in my mind as I was looking through the book. Each had a unique ... design, different content, opposite meanings but the way they were painted was very similar. Both Monet and Van Gogh were among the greatest painters in time, their paintings have changed the way that many people look at art. Lines are both used ... lighter colors that they almost seem none...

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... the ideas of the artists, and the public reactions at the time. The Impressionist group was first formed around 1870 in France by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille due to their shared discontent with academic teaching. So they began their own group also ... later joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. They were given the name Impressionists after Monet's painting Impression:Sunrise. It was the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, the set-up of the Third Republic of France, and the ...

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... family in a rural area outside Paris. Pissarro not only morally encouraged Cézanne, but also introduced him to the new impressionist technique for rendering outdoor light. Along with the painters Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and a few others, Pissarro had developed a painting style that involved working outdoors rapidly and on a reduced scale, employing small touches of pure color. Under Pissarro's influence, and ... ...

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