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POPSA late Monet His eyesight was really poor by this time. What a result though. One of my favourites. Marvelous colour and texture.
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POPSPaintings of Arthur Sisley Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France.
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POPSNew Insights into Artists perceptions due to physical infirmity Monet was not alone. France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries embraced an astonishing number of important artists who battled serious physical shortcomings — sometimes for decades. Edgar Degas, known for his paintings of nudes and ballet dancers, suffered retinal disease, probably macular degeneration, for nearly half his life. When he died in 1917, his colleague Pierre Auguste Renoir said, “It is fortunate for him ... any conceivable death is better than living the way he was.”
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POPSBastille Day (NOT Independence Day) Bastille Day falls during the Tour de France and is traditionally a day on which French riders try to take a stage victory for France, working harder than they might otherwise. Any stage victory in the Tour by a Frenchman has become cause for celebration, as victories have become rare for the French since Bernard Hinault stopped riding the Tour.
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POPS Priceless Monet Vandalized in Paris Museum PARIS — Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said. She described the damage as an attack on "our memory, our patrimony."
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POPSMIT Ajax Script : SIMILE Timeline - Exemple: Religion Timelines: Jewish History + Christianity Histo
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally. ---- http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ ----- The Life of Monet: a simple timeline showing the life of Monet. JFK Assassination timeline: a minute by minute development when John F. Kennedy got shot on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas. Jewish History: 2000 years in length. Christianity Timeline: from Anno Domini to 2006, 570 events altogether. Religion Timelines: recommended to be viewed on a huge monitor, mashing the Jewish history with the Christianity timeline together to be seen side-by-side. Cubism: demonstrating the use of JSON, thanks to Juan Manuel Caicedo. Dinosaurs: recommended to be viewed on a huge monitor, showing Timeline working geological scale events. (Note that the Geochrono extension used here is still incomplete.)
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POPSThe Best Pun IN THE WORLD!! Finalists ) I tried to come up with a pun about famous German philosophers, but I Kant. - Dan J) Did you hear they found a narcissistic male lion whose females had turned on him? No, really? Yeah. Course it was his pride that did him in… - Justin
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POPSPenn's Pictures “We think he’s one of the greatest living artists in any medium, and we like to focus on whole bodies of work. We’re seeing these pictures as if they’re Monet’s waterlilies, a single coherent body of work.” Weston Naef, Getty Museum’s senior photography curator,
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POPSDodging Art Are the wealthy completely immune from the slowing economy? Perhaps not - given how slowly some expensive art is moving at Christie's and Sotheby's.
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