...  annual Salons of the 1860s. Yet many of the rejection of his more ambitious works, notably the large-scale Women in the Garden, inspired Monet to join with Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Renoir, and others in establishing an independent exhibition in 1874. Impression: Sunrise 1873; Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, one of Monet's contributions to this exhibition, drew particular scorn ... other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters, including Edouard Manet and o...

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... 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 ... but to bring to mind impressions and opinions. The Nabis was firstly encouraged and fathered by Gauguin and his passion for intensity and purity in shapes and colours. Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, P...

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Paul Cézanne wasn't interested in what people thought of him, his paintings or his lifestyle. Instead, he focused on pleasing himself with the aesthetics of his work and rendered images of favorite landscapes and objects with a pleasing form. Born at Aix-en-Provence in 1839, Cézanne was Frenchman. He went to school in Aix, where he studied law for three years while simultaneously attending drawing classes. Against his father's reluctance, he made up his mind that he wanted to paint instead of continuing with law, and went to Paris to study art in 1861. From the beginning, Cézanne was drawn ...

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