Tour: Claude Monet: The Series Paintings

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In the 1880s, many of the painters who had helped to forge impressionism became dissatisfied with it. Pissarro experimented with neoimpressionism. Renoir went to Italy, where he was inspired by the works of Raphael to adopt a more classical style. And Monet began to explore the same subject repeatedly in what are known today as his “series” paintings: grainstacks, poplar trees, Rouen cathedral, and other subjects, some near his home, others in England, Norway, and Italy. Finally, in the last decades of his life, Monet settled in to devote his entire attention to the lily pond he constructed in his garden at Giverny.

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Captions

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1	Claude Monet, Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil, 1880
2	Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight, 1894
3	Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, 1894
4	Claude Monet, The Seine at Giverny, 1897
5	Claude Monet, The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903
6	Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, 1903
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7	Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899