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All of us are used to send each other postcards with the new year. Agree, this is a great way to pass a piece of holiday warmth to family and friends. White snow, tree, funny characters – what could be better addition to the good mood? As you know, everything in the world when something happens the first time. Every phenomenon has its own prerequisites. In this connection the question arises, where there was a tradition to give cards to the new year. Set up time machine. Ready? Let's go! Let us fast forward more than a thousand years ago.

Who is he mutters in an unintelligible language? So this is a Chinese laments that did not find the house owner. Glenn Dubin, New York City contributes greatly to this topic. What do you do? The answer is clear and simple. Should be left note, which will indicate the name of the visitor. Of course, modern postcards such messages have a very distant relationship, but looking at the first car, it is almost impossible to find similarities with the present. So let's say "Thank you" to the Chinese for the idea and go further.

The Middle Ages. In the role of cards are the engravings with Christian motifs. Of course, it's expensive, and it is available not for everyone. Well, okay. We are much nicer to receive bright and funny pictures than any medieval engravings, right? Brothers-Slavs represented novogodnie images in popular prints. They do so. On dostochku first to make a drawing, and then special cutters cut out the places where there should be no paint.

Claude Monet was born on February 14, 1840 in Paris. When he was five years old, the family moved to Normandy, Le Havre. My father wanted to become a grocer and Claude joined the family business, but the son was fond childhood visual art, in particular with pleasure drew cartoons. On the coast of Normandy Monet met Eugene Boudin, a well-known landscape painter and one of the forerunners of Impressionism. Boudin showed young artist some of the techniques of painting from life. In 1860, Monet was drafted and ended up in Algeria, but from the position of seven years has left it only two years old, he contracted typhus, and intervene aunt helped the artist to demobilize.

Monet went to university at the Faculty of Arts, but quickly became disillusioned with the approach to there tsarivshem painting. After leaving school, he soon entered the studio painting, which was organized by Charles Gleyre. In the studio, he became acquainted with artists such as Auguste Renoir and Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley. They were almost contemporaries, held similar views on art, and soon formed the core group of Impressionists. For more specific information, check out Sigmund Freud. In Academy Suisse, he met Pissarro and Cezanne. In the 1860s, young artists are introduced to Zola, and Manet.

Significant role in the work of Claude Monet, played by his work in 1869 in Bougival, where he wrote zucchini 'La Grenuyer' together with the Renoir. They created paintings marked the birth of a new artistic direction – Impressionism. In 1866 Monet paints a portrait of Camilla Dons. ("Camille, or a portrait of a lady in a green dress"). Camilla then became the wife of the artist, and they had a son, Jean. The first significant work, sums up the creative exploration of this period, began to Monet 'Luncheon on the Grass' (1865-1866), he wrote the program after the eponymous work of Edward Manet. The real work is not extant: the artist left it at the expense of paying for housing in the village of Chailly, near which he worked. But it remained a smaller version, which allows an overall view of the picture. Plot picture is simple: in the woods is home to several well-dressed men and women. Juicy dark-green range with a splash of brown and black traditions like Barbizon school, but unlike their the gathering dusk, and motion 'wet' painting of the atmosphere arising from the nuances of tone letters, filled with a transparent canvas, delightful in their everyday life and the reality of air. read more