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School was always like a prison to me, I could never bring myself to stay there, even four hours a day, when the sun was shining and the sea was so tempting, and it was such fun scrambling over cliffs and paddling in the shallows." http://www.artcafe.net/ah/monet/index.html "Cliff walk at Pourville" is one of the works of art by Monet that represents the connection of human beings within nature. This painting contains a variety of emotions a deep feeling of serenity and peace. By just looking at the painting, we can imagine being there and hearing the sound of the breeze, the smell of the salty water of the ocean and being in contact with nature. We can imagine admiring the sea and the mountains, the sunny day and the blue sky. The connection between human beings and nature is special and unique. Nature is us and is within us.

"Cliff walk at Pourville" presents two women walking a walk on the cliff. They are in contact with nature, with the plants, the sea, the natural environment. This painting was created in 1888, and Monet is showing and reflecting a day when two people went for a walk and enjoyed this connection, and peace within nature.

Claude Monet as an impressionist painter...

The horizon line, the division between the sky and the sea gives us an idea of infinity, leading us to go beyond the borders. This painting captures a moment that we all should admire and enjoy. The simple contact with nature, its peace and serenity, is something we cannot give up. Yet, most of us do.
Claude Monet, by being known and considered as the poet of nature, aims to give narrative through his paintings. Monet provides a representation of the natural world, and also the destruction of this naturalism.

Nature has become pure aesthetics in people's life. "The beautiful flower, the building with the garden, paintings of Monet's depicting nature," and by this nature is still here with us. It still exists in us in our daily life but now it has stopped existing as it natural form at least in some parts of the world nature has just lost its essence and had become an "artificial nature." Nowadays we live in a world where aesthetics is something very important, and sometimes we forget the real essence, the real nature of us, and the fact that nature itself represents

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