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Houses of Parliament series (Monet)

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Main article: Claude Monet Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stays in London between the years 1900-1905. The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint,[1] Monet's window at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.[2] They are however painted at different times of the day and at different weather circumstances. By now he had abandoned his earlier working practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the motif. He carried on rening the images back in France, and sent to London for photographs to help in this. This caused some adverse reaction, but Monet's reply was that his means of creating a work was his own business, and it was up to the viewer to judge the nal result.

Gallery
Some of the paintings in the London Parliament series:

Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-1901 The Art Institute of Chicago

Parlement, coucher du soleil (sunset), 1902, private collection

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Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard, 1903, Museum of Fine-Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant, 1903, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.

Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil), 1903, Brooklyn Museum

The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903-1904, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Troue de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904, Muse d'Orsay, Paris

Houses of Parliament, London, Muse Marmottan Monet c.1904

Houses of Parliament, stormy sky, 1904, Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France

Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Kunsthaus Zrich

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Photograph of the Houses of Parliament from London Eye

References
1. ^ "Monet, Claude: Houses of Parliament, London" (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet /parliament/) . http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/parliament/. 2. ^ Guardian Unlimited (http://www.guardian.co.uk/monet/Tour_Thumbnails1/0,3992,209038,00.html)

Further reading
Baker, Jacob; Thornes, John E. (8 December 2006). "Solar Position within Monet's Houses of Parliament". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 462 (2076): 37753788. Bibcode 2006RSPSA.462.3775B (http://adsabs.harvard.edu /abs/2006RSPSA.462.3775B) . doi:10.1098/rspa.2006.1754 (http://dx.doi.org /10.1098%2Frspa.2006.1754) . Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Houses_of_Parliament_series_(Monet)& oldid=485235458" Categories: Paintings by Claude Monet 1900s paintings This page was last modied on 2 April 2012 at 21:58. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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