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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Impressionist Painting
Plein Air is a French term meaning outdoors. Oainting-Plein Air painting is essentially outside. Some artists who are recognized by this technique are Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renior who were masters of French impressionist painting. The modern artists still use today that technique. In fact, many professional painters are found in nature as well as early morning and take the colors of the sunrise. This helps inform the colors they use in paints the future. These kinds of meetings often last all day. When it is full of art-painting as a whole are Points to consider for the success and pleasure.
1. Climate and clothing: When painting outside, make sure to dress in appropriate layers. After all, the weather conditions change quickly, sometimes. The sun protection is also very important. Use a good sunscreen and apply regularly throughout the day. Consider wearing a wide brimmed hat. You might also consider wearing pants with shorts under the chances of unexpected weather. The same goes for shirts and long sleeves.
2. Paint Supplies: In general, watercolors type Bread is the best type of paint for painting outdoors. They are easy to work and tend to dry fairly quickly. You need to make cups of paint as paint by oppsed because these tubes are coated with a thin skin, they begin to dry up. Cups can be leveled and used easily at a later date. Make sure to supply your group or with a container for water and cleaning brush. You also want to get a little folding stool. Make sure your light weight and comfortable sitting all day. Bring extra clothes, brushes Toothbrush, towel and plastic bags.
3. Stands: Stands of all shapes and forms. They may come as a suitcase or include a tripod with an H-shaped frame support. You probably want to buy an outdoor of standing in easily store your linens, paints and other materials. When you choose a booth to be sure it is removable, easily transportable, and is as light as possible.
The best advice for painting outdoors is the best location possible. This type of painting is any seizure Data on the beauty of nature, light and colors. Make sure you read everything carefully before making their decisions. You want the most beautiful landscapes you can find, with many trees, flowers and wildlife. Remember, the dawn of the morning are the best!
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Painting the Impressionist Landscape
$16.27
Master Impressionism with an art-instruction classic. Impressionism has inspired generations of American artists. And no one has done more for the cause of American Impressionism than Charles Hawthorne, the founder of the Cape Cod School of Art. In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, author and artist Lois Griffel explores Hawthorne''s theories about color and light in depth. Griffel, the longtime director of the school Hawthorne founded, teaches his philosophy like no other painter can, with inspiring step-by-step painting lessons and illuminating text. A true classic of art instruction, Painting the Impressionist Landscape has sold more than 30,000 copies in hardcover in the fifteen years since it was first published. Now a new generation of painters can bring impressionism into their work with this convenient and affordable paperback edition.
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Soviet Impressionist Painting
$70.88
This book is a completely revised and updated edition of Soviet Impressionism, published in 2001 and quickly sold out. Vern Swanson has included a mass of new information as well as 140 additional colour plates. Soviet Art of the 1930s to the 1980s is now considered the twenieth century's major realist school of painting, although much of it had remained hidden during its heyday due to the politics of the Cold War. Now percipient and adventurous art historians are turning the balance and addressing the presence of Soviet Impressionist paintings. This is a vibrant and powerful school of art. Beautiful colour illustrations throughout and a highly perceptive text make this a reference book no art lover or historian would wish to be without.
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting and Sculpture in the Isr
$3.87
Jerusalems Israel Museum has long been renowned for its collections of Judaica, Near Eastern artifacts, and rare books, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. But the museums hidden treasures are its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and sculpture. In this dazzling volume, published just after the Israel Museums 40th anniversary, the institutions superb collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art is showcased in full color and described in English for the first time. BRBRIn an engaging text, curator Stephanie Rachum traces the history of the collection from its beginnings even before the museum itself was built. The collection has grown considerably over the years, and featured here are paintings by Cizanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, and Monet, along with sculpture by Rodin and other notable artists.
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Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting
$87.38
This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and nineteenth-century consumer culture.This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and nineteenth-century consumer culture. Ruth E. Iskin explores the representation of feminine fashions, consumers, and sales-women in Parisian boutiques. She revises our understanding of the representation of women in Impressionist painting by refocusing the exploration of gender.This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and nineteenth-century consumer culture. Ruth E. Iskin explores the representation of feminine fashions, consumers, and sales-women in Parisian boutiques. She revises our understanding of the representation of women in Impressionist painting by refocusing the exploration of gender.This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and Parisian consumer culture. Its analysis of Impressionist paintings depicting women as consumers, producers, or sellers in sites such as the millinery boutique, theater, opera, caf}}-concert and market revises our understanding of the representation of women in Impressionist painting, from women}}s exclusion from modernity to their inclusion in its public spaces, and from the privileging of the male gaze to a plurality of gazes. Ruth E. Iskin demonstrates that Impressionist painting addresses and represents women in active roles, and not only as objects on display, and probes the complex relationship between the Parisienne, French fashion, and national identity. She analyzes Impressionist representations of commodity displays and of signs of consumer culture such as advertising and shop fronts in views of Paris. Incorporating a wide range of nineteenth-century literary and visual sources, Iskin situates Impressionist painting in the culture of consumption and suggests new ways of understanding the art and culture of nineteenth-century Paris. Ruth E. Iskin holds a PhD from UCLA. She has@UØQë…¸ÿ¾Úx
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Impressionist Giverny
$34.48
Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet’s artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming it from a sleepy hamlet to a colorful and thriving artists’ community. Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915 evokes the longevity of impressionism and highlights the role Giverny played in the movement’s ascendance, placing Giverny in the context of other European artists’ colonies of its era. Making use of reproductions of period postcards, paintings, photographs, and previously unpublished documents, editor Katherine M. Bourguignon traces the evolution of the impressionist style in this idyllic and international setting. Fellow contributors address the interactions of the artists of Giverny with Monet, the utopian experiment of a collective artistic enterprise, the emergence of the rural innkeeper as a new class of patron, and the American impressionists who, inspired by their experience in France, often formed artists’ colonies back in the United States and participated in the ongoing tradition of French-American cultural exchange. Accompanying exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny and at the San Diego Museum of Art, Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915 captures the creative spirit and aesthetic that enlivened this artistic haven a century ago.
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Impressionist Camera
$49.73
From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography's relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Camera examines the ways in which practitioners realized their pictorial vision, from the re-creation of Academic painting in photography to the use of soft focus to lend images an impressionistic quality. Also explored are the cross-currents with photography in America - where Pictorialism went on to flourish - including the seminal work of Alfred Stieglitz.
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
$31.98
Jerusalem's Israel Museum has long been renowned for its collections of Judaica, Near Eastern artifacts, and rare books, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. But the museum's hidden treasures are its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and sculpture. In this dazzling volume, published just after the Israel Museum's 40th anniversary, the institution's superb collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art is showcased in full color and described in English for the first time. In an engaging text, curator Stephanie Rachum traces the history of the collection from its beginnings even before the museum itself was built. The collection has grown considerably over the years, and featured here are paintings by Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, and Monet, along with sculpture by Rodin and other notable artists.
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The Impressionist and the Sea 2010 Wall Calendar
$13.95
The Impressionist and the Sea Wall Calendar: The ever-changing nature of the sea was the perfect subject for the Impressionist painters; it gave them the chance to experiment with their painting techniques and compositions but also to closely observe and capture the transient moment.
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The Ultimate Trophy: How The Impressionist Painting Conquered The Worl
$93.95
In 1892 Degas painting In the CafC) was sold for a mere 180brguineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell.brLess than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir sbrMoulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby s for $78 million,braccompanied by enthusiastic applause. In this history-cummemoirbrPhilip Hook, Senior Director of Sotheby s Impressionistbrand Modern Art department, examines the public s change ofbrheart toward Impressionism. Starting with its shocking noveltybrand confounding style, he traces the impact of the Impressionistbrpainting as it spread to Germany, America, and Great Britain,brpolarizing modernists and conservatives. Equally fascinating isbrthe story of Impressionism s change in status. More thanbrexceptionally pretty pictures, Impressionist works havebrbecome a currency in their own right, being bought and soldbrlike blue-chip stock coveted as much for their monetarybrworth as for their intrinsic beauty. Drawn from Hook s ownbrexperiences with art collectors and dealers, this fascinatingbrchapter in art history is narrated through the lens of today s artbrmarket.
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Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light an
$15.99
Impressionism - its techniques as well as its practitioners, past and present - continues to excite the passion of artists and art enthusiasts alike. From the plein-air landscapes first painted near the forests of Barbizon outside Paris, through the fields of Givemy that Monet immortalized, to the art of American expatriates such as John Singer Sargent and the European-trained American nativists like William Merritt Chase, the influence of impressionism on American art has had a long and distinguished history. Through artistic principles developed by Charles Hawthorne, an influential American impressionist and educator who studied with Chase and founded The Cape Cod School of Art, the rich legacy of the impressionist tradition was passed on to several generations of twentieth-century American artists. In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, Lois Griffel, the current director of The Cape Cod School of Art and an accomplished artist in her own right, explores and illustrates Hawthorne's philosophy and theories about color and light, enabling artists at every level of ability and experience to apply his insights to their own work. The first part of the book, Fundamentals of Color and Light, elaborates on the circumstances and individuals that contributed to the development of impressionism. The author then outlines the progression of the study of color and light that is covered in detail later in the book, from simple block studies - the most effective way to learn to use pure color to express the effects and quality of light - through the more complex rounded forms in still lifes and portraits, to the most challenging forms intrinsic to landscape. Griffel then discusses the essentialsof color - its terms, the impressionist palette, and color mixing - as well as how established color theory expresses and influences the impressionist approach. The second part of the book, Impressionism in Practice, takes readers through a series of explorations that guides them tow@/úáG®{ÿ¾Úx
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Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light an
$19.98
bLois Griffel/b’s lifelong interest in art began at the age of five, when she first entertained neighborhood children with her drawings and paintings. She discovered early in her career that she enjoyed teaching and attended Southern Connecticut State College in order to receive her bachelor of science degree in education. Later, while making her living as a portrait painter, she enrolled at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York, where she studied with many outstanding artists, including Everett Raymond Kinstler and Harvey Dinnerstein. Her introduction in the early 1970s to Henry Hensche, Charles Hawthorne’s protégé, led to her in-depth study and practice of the impressionist theory of painting. As director and instructor at The Cape Cod School of Art, it gives her great joy to combine her loves of teaching and painting, and to share them with enthusiastic students. Ms. Griffel has had a number of one-person exhibitions throughout New England, and has been included in invitational exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Carmel, California. She holds workshops in landscape, portrait, and figure painting throughout the northeast.Impressionism—its techniques as well as its practitioners, past and present—continues to excite the passion of artists and art enthusiasts alike. From the plein-air landscapes first painted near the forests of Barbizon outside Paris, through the fields of Giverny that Monet immortalized, to the art of American expatriates such as John Singer Sargent and the European-trained American nativists like William Merritt Chase, the influence of impressionism on American art has had a long and distinguished history.brbrbrbrThrough artistic principles developed by Charles Hawthorne, an influential American impressionist and educator who studied with Chase and founded The Cape Cod School of Art, the rich legacy of the impressionist tradition was passed on t@3úáG®{ÿ¾Úx
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Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life
$1.8
Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing importance of animals as family members. In many cases, such domestic denizens significantly complement representations of their owners. In certain others, the devotion of individual artists to their pets symbolically enhances their expressions of artistic identity. This enjoyable and informative book focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era. James H. Rubin discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats). He points out that in some works by Degas, dogs contribute to the artist's commentary on psychological and social relationships, and that in paintings by Renoir, dogs and cats have playful and erotic overtones. He also offers a theory to explain why Monet almost never painted pets. Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.
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Impressionist Prints of Childe Hassam
$10.34
American artist Hassam (1859-1935), remembered mainly as an Impressionist, turned from painting to printmaking late in his career. The 94 representative etchings, drypoints, and lithographs in this handsome collection display the genteel urban middle class (primarily New York City), New England waterfronts and harbors, and the artist''s Long Island summer retreat.
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Impressionist Prints of Childe Hassam
$2.94
American artist Hassam (1859-1935), remembered mainly as an Impressionist, turned from painting to printmaking late in his career. The 94 representative etchings, drypoints, and lithographs in this handsome collection display the genteel urban middle class (primarily New York City), New England waterfronts and harbors, and the artist's Long Island summer retreat.br
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Impressionist Gardens
$6.99
Monet once said that his only two interests in life were painting and gardening. In Giverny, he combined these enthusiasms to create the most famous of artists' gardens. This beautifully illustrated book is the first about the Impressionists' paintings of gardens and flowers, a favourite and richly developed subject of all the artists, including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley. For many of the Impressionists, cultivating flowers afforded as much pleasure as painting them and they exchanged enthusiastic letters about the propagation of irises, chrysanthemums and dahlias. With their revolutionary approach to rendering outdoor effects and fleeting atmospheric conditions, they captured the sunlit colour and mood, and almost the smell of flower gardens. In doing so, they registered a new public sensibility: the love, not just of fresh air and greenery, but of gloriously colourful settings on a domestic scale.
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Impressionist Gardens
$6.71
Monet once said that his only two interests in life were painting and gardening. In Giverny, he combined these enthusiasms to create the most famous of artists' gardens. This beautifully illustrated book is the first about the Impressionists' paintings of gardens and flowers, a favourite and richly developed subject of all the artists, including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley. For many of the Impressionists, cultivating flowers afforded as much pleasure as painting them and they exchanged enthusiastic letters about the propagation of irises, chrysanthemums and dahlias. With their revolutionary approach to rendering outdoor effects and fleeting atmospheric conditions, they captured the sunlit colour and mood, and almost the smell of flower gardens. In doing so, they registered a new public sensibility: the love, not just of fresh air and greenery, but of gloriously colourful settings on a domestic scale.
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The Impressionist Print
$66.81
A print can sometimes tell us more than a painting about the history of art. Michel Melot illustrates his thesis in this book, analysing relationships between artists, the art market, the critics, collectors and political institutions. This fresh approach reveals Impressionism not as a sort of miracle, but as a response to economic and social upheaval. This original view of a key movement in the history of art allows the reader to understand its decisive effect on all the subsequent generations who have contributed to maintaining the tradition of the belle epreuve.A print can sometimes tell us more than a painting about the history of art. Michel Melot illustrates his thesis in this book, analysing relationships between artists, the art market, the critics, collectors and political institutions.
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Guide to Impressionist Paris: Nine Walking Tours to the Impressionist
$4.64
Discover the beauty of Paris while following in the footsteps of well-known Impressionist painters with 9 walking tours of 80 famous painting sites. Museum-quality reproductions of historical paintings are paired with color photographs of the locations as they appear today, allowing the reader to compare the actual scene with the artist's rendering of it. Easy-to-follow tour directions and maps, information about the paintings and the artists, and Paris history are included.
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Promenades of an Impressionist
$25.32
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Scribner Subjects: Impressionism (Art) Art Artists Art / General Art / History / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Art / Individual Artist Art / Techniques / Painting Art / Popular Culture Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Promenades of an Impressionist
$26.68
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Scribner Subjects: Impressionism (Art) Art Artists Art / General Art / History / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Art / Individual Artist Art / Techniques / Painting Art / Popular Culture Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Impressionist
$15.67
Buy and sell [Impressionist] at great prices.
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Impressionist Painting; Its Genesis and Development
$20
Publisher: London: G. Newnes Publication date: 1904 Subjects: Impressionism (Art) Artists -- Portraits Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Impressionist Painting; Its Genesis and Development
$21.88
Publisher: London: G. Newnes Publication date: 1904 Subjects: Impressionism (Art) Artists -- Portraits Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Impressionist Landscapes 2010 Wall Calendar
$13.95
Impressionist Landscapes Wall Calendar: The Impressionists produced a revolution in painting by their new approach to light and color as a reaction against the conservative realism that had preceded them in art. Their wish to paint out of doors translated into these scenes of landscapes and leisure.
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Impressionist Cats and Dogs
$7.98
Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing importance of animals as family members. In many cases, such domestic denizens significantly complement representations of their owners. In certain others, the devotion of individual artists to their pets symbolically enhances their expressions of artistic identity. This enjoyable and informative book focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era. James H. Rubin discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats). He points out that in some works by Degas, dogs contribute to the artist's commentary on psychological and social relationships, and that in paintings by Renoir, dogs and cats have playful and erotic overtones. He also offers a theory to explain why Monet almost never painted pets. Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.
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Impressionist Cats & Dogs
$28.53
Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing importance of animals as family members. In many cases, such domestic denizens significantly complement representations of their owners. In certain others, the devotion of individual artists to their pets symbolically enhances their expressions of artistic identity. This enjoyable and informative book focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era. James H. Rubin discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats). He points out that in some works by Degas, dogs contribute to the artist's commentary on psychological and social relationships, and that in paintings by Renoir, dogs and cats have playful and erotic overtones. He also offers a theory to explain why Monet almost never painted pets. Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.
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Edgar Degas Dance Class Decorative Outlet Cover
Sale Price: $4.99
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Handcrafted to the highest standards using the artistry of the decoupage technique, artwork is triple sealed with a special sealant to ensure durability,easy cleaning and obtain an enamel like finish. Artwork will not fade...
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Renoir Girls at Piano Decorative Switchplate Cover
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Handcrafted to the highest standards using the artistry of the decoupage technique, artwork is triple sealed with a special sealant to ensure durability,easy cleaning and obtain an enamel like finish. Artwork will not fade...
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
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{WINNER! Best Animated Film, New England Children's Film Festival}Here she comes, right from the pages of the bestselling book LINNEA IN MONET'S GARDEN. The charming tale about a little girl's love for Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation...
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A Sunday in the Country (Deluxe Letterboxed Edition)
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Bertrand Travernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I. Alive with the subtle brush strokes of an artist at the top of his form, Travernier's acclaimed "A Sunday in the Country" is a lovingly photographed and exquisitely acted portrait of the Ladmiral family at the beginning of the twentieth century...
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