Section IV: Web sources

Title of Web Page: Claude Monet
Web address: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/monet_ext.html
Brief Description: This essay delineates Monet's influence on the Impressionist movement and artists. It also analyzes his painting methods and interpretations of nature. The Artchive web source lifts up Monet as one of the foremost players in the age of Impressionism.
Source of Web site: Artchive

Title of Web Page: Monet, Claude (WebMuseum, Paris)
Web address: http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/monet/
Brief Description: This web page gives a detailed description of Monet's life, including his interaction with other French Impressionist painters. Links connect to Monet's works of art, which are divided into categories based on common themes or time frames. There's also a link to the Impressionist style, which gives a general overview of the movement.
Source of Web site: University of Central Florida in partnership with the WebMuseum Network

Title of Web Page: Monet and Modernism
Web address: http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l5_wordings_fldr/l3_la_monet-moderism.html
Brief Description: Entitled Monet and Modernism, this essay has a more skeptical outlook of Monet. In addition to talking about Monet's success, Ronnie Landfield, the author, tells the darker side of Monet's life, a time in history when Monet not a household name. Landfield follows his social and artistic life, giving a short chronology on the events that brought fame to Monet in the nineteenth century as well as on the events that renewed interest in him during the twentieth century.
Source of Web site: abstract-art.com, web master- Ron Davis

Title of Web Page: Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Web address: http://www.biography.com/impressionists/artists_monet.html
Brief Description: This biography of Monet divides his art into different time periods: his formative years, years between 1880s and 1890s and his late work. It gives real life details about his friendships, family and wife, happenings of the time (Franco-Prussian War) and his financial hardship. This page also explains Monet's pivotal role in the development of Impressionism and later, in the growth of modern art.
Source of Web site: Biography (companion to the Biography Channel and Magazine)

Title of Web Page: History/Impressionism
Web address: http://www.dieu-soleil.net/ihistory.html
Brief Description: This site gives an overview of the entire Impressionist movement, including sections on painting, music and art. The paragraphs on painting describe the characteristics of Impressionist art and show how painters, such as Monet, established the foundation for the movement.
Source of Web site: "The Masters, Your Renaissance and Impressionist Art Resource"

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