Monet and Impressionism: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art History Livestream

Monet and Impressionism: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art History Livestream

You are invited to join us for an online/virtual tour of one of our favorite places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where we'll explore their amazing art collection.
This particular program, one of a series we're hosting on the Met, will feature Claude Monet and Impressionism.
Come learn about Claude Monet and Impressionism through the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Claude Monet & Impressionism – Metropolitan Museum of Art
YouTube Slideshow Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef14a_YNgMI

YouTube Recordings of Previous Monet Programs …

Claude Monet & The National Gallery of Art
Slideshow Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglS99S0x3o
Full Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJJfU1phvk

Claude Monet & The Art Institute of Chicago
Slideshow Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzezeQWtOw
Full Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0HPC5rSpI

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Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people and is one of the most-visited art museums in the world.

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Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations New York History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.

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