Vétheuil
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Vétheuil is a commune
in the northwestern suburbs of Paris
, France
. Vétheuil is located in the arrondissement of Pontoise
in the Val-d'Oise
department.
painter Claude Monet
lived in Vétheuil from 1878 to 1881, during which time he produced some 150 paintings. Joan Mitchell
moved to Vetheuil in 1959 where she productively made many abstract
works.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the northwestern suburbs of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Vétheuil is located in the arrondissement of Pontoise
Arrondissement of Pontoise
The arrondissement of Pontoise is an arrondissement of France, located in the Val-d'Oise département, in the Île-de-France région. It has 17 cantons and 117 communes.-Cantons:The cantons of the arrondissement of Pontoise are:# Beauchamp...
in the Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise is a French department, created in 1968 after the split of the Seine-et-Oise department and located in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is known as "quatre-vingt quinze" or "neuf cinq"...
department.
Personalities
ImpressionistImpressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
painter Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was 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. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
lived in Vétheuil from 1878 to 1881, during which time he produced some 150 paintings. Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a "second generation" abstract expressionist painter. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few...
moved to Vetheuil in 1959 where she productively made many abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
works.
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