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From now on whatever the hour represented on the canvas, a supreme accord w1ll be wrought amongst all the parts of the subject: the water, the sky, the clouds, the foliage, reunified by the atmosphere, will form a whole of an irreproachable homogeneity, a grandiose and charming image of natural harmony.

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The real us present, and it is transfigured... It is everywhere a reality at once immutable and changing. Matter is present, submitted to a luminous phantasmagoria. What Monet paints is the space that exists between himself and things.

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Gustave Geffroy

Gustave Geffroy

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Born: June 1, 1855

Died: April 4, 1926 (aged 70)

Bio: Gustave Geffroy was a French journalist, art critic, historian, and novelist. He was one of the ten founding members of the literary organization Académie Goncourt in 1900.

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