Oscar Claude Monet or best known as Claude Monet was a French painter who did various paintings of the outdoors. Claude Monet had many struggles with depression, money and illness. Monet’s artwork gave the name to the movement of art impressionism. Monet was focused on capturing light and natural patterns of nature.
Claude Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. Monet’s father Adolphe worked in the family shipping business and his mother, Louise took care of their family. Also, she was a trained singer and she liked poetry. In 1885 at the age of five Monet and his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, which was a port city. He grew up there with his older brother Leon and Monet went to school, but he did not like to be restricted
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The painting was an oil on canvas and it is currently in the Musee D Orsay. The dimensions of the painting are 36.22 inches wide by 35.04 inch high. Monet’s water lilies are also called Nympheas Bleus, Nymphaea means botanical name for water lily. Monet lived in Giverny, Paris so when he lived there he grew white water lilies in a pond so he focused on painting it. The pond became his inspiration for his painting. One of his greatest masterpieces was his garden painting and his garden is in at his house in Giverny. In the water lilies painting there is lots of blue, green, a little bit of purple, little bit of yellow and a little bit of white. The texture of the painting is rough because it was oil painting and it might represent the water in the pond. However the painting is fluent and very detailed of the pond with water lilies because since that the source of his inspiration was the pond so that he chose a part of the pond to draw. We can interpret that he loved the idea of water lilies and the outdoors. The majority of his painting is painted outside. We can tell that the time it took to glorify the gardens and the ponds took a long time because all of his paintings are of water lilies or a bridge with water lilies underneath in the
Claude Monet played an essential role in a development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing powerful art from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of the nature of Normandy and time spent along the beaches and noticing the nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he was interested in becoming an artist. He was known by people for his charcoal caricatures, this way he made money by selling them by the age of 15. Moreover, Claude went to take drawing lessons with a local artist, but his career in painting had not begun yet. He met artist Eugène Boudin, who became his teacher and taught him to use oil paints. Claude Monet
One Child’s Courage to Survive. “ A Child Called It ” Abstract This is one of the best, yet saddest books that I have ever read. There are so many bad things out there that are happening to good people. We just have no idea.
I visited Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California for the first time hoping to learn more about the European artworks this place has to offer. Norton Simon Museum holds the remarkable amounts of artwork by world-renowned artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt van Rijin, Caravaggio, Raphael, and Pablo Picasso just to name a few. I observed many European paintings in the 18th to 19th century; I chose to discuss the artwork by the incredible Claude-Oscar Monet. Claude-Oscar Monet’s Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865 is an oil painting of a seascape on a canvas. The Parisian artist is considered one of the most influential artists in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter from March 30th, 1853 to the time of his early death in July 29th, 1890. He was a Dutch artist who traveled between Hague, London, and Paris where he created some of his best works of art. One of van Gogh’s famous starlit night sky paintings was the Starry Night Over the Rhone. The canvas that van Gogh chose to paint his famously recognized piece of art was constructed using an oil base paint on a 28.5 inch by 36.2 inch canvas. Oscar-Claude Monet, also a Impressionist painter, was born on November 14th, 1840 and passed away on December 5th, 1926. Monet lived in Giverny where he painted various different landscape projects that later became subjects of some of his best-known works. Considered to be one of Monet’s “most poetic expressions,” Impression, Sunrise is illustrated using oil paints on a 18.9 inch by 24.8 inch canvas. Van Gogh’s and Monet’s paintings are similar to each other in that they are both maritime paintings,
His contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism were enormous, the ways he uses of light, sunlight, color, and shadow in his paintings. He is known for being the primary developer of Impressionist technique and his painting style, techniques, and theories have a tremendous effect on the structure of the art world and effected on the European art culture in many different ways. He was a mentor to many painters, including Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. His works and theories have inspired many artists including Lucy Bacon, who is an Impressionist from California.
Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in St. Germain-en-Laye. His parents operated a small china shop and he later became the oldest of five children. At the age of 11, he began musical training at the Paris Conservatory. Debussy originally intended to become a pianist, but settled his focus on composing at the Conservatory. While in school, Nadezhda von Meck hired Debussy as a music teacher for her children; “through travel, concerts and
Oscar Claude Monet was a French Impressionist painter. He was famous for painting Water Lilies, Women in Garden, and Impression Sunrise. I choose this painter because he was an interesting painter, he had dream of being a painter since an early age.
Claude Monet Claude Monet was one of the founding fathers of French Impressionism. Monet's concern was to reflect the influence of light on a subject. He never abandoned his Impressionist painting style until his death in 1926 when Fauvism and Cubism were en vogue and when abstract painting came into existence. First Painting Lessons Claude Monet was born in Paris, but grew up in Le Havre. His first artistic output was caricatures when he was a little boy.
Water lilies was a series of approximately 250 oil paintings Claude Monet (1840-1926) produced late in his life while he was 74 till his death at 86 in his garden at Giverny, west of Paris along the Seine. Claude Monet was a impressionist. To illustrated, Louis Leroy, writing for the satirical journal Charivari, sized upon the tile of Monet’s painting IMPRESSION, SUNRISE while Monet exhibited his painting in Paris in 1874 (Marilyn 495). And this was the first time the term impression was used. Impressionists were not focusing to recapture the actual appearance of physical things, but they were focusing to capture the fleeting light effects and atmosphere (495). Monet was a pure and extreme impressionist, and he spent his whole life trying to express the instantaneous impression of a fleeting moment in nature to his paintings and to capture the beauty of the optimal world. In his late life while he had vision problem and unhealthy condition in body, he spent most of his time and energy in his garden to study water lilies. The passion Monet putted into the water lilies series of paintings verified the tenacious vitality of Monet and his love in art.
The Impressionist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century France initiated by a group of artists who defied conventional artistic standards and who were harshly criticized by the Academie des Beaux-Arts which was considered the authority in the realist styles of French painting of the period. Among them was Claude Monet (1840-1926) one of the most influential of the Impressionists.
Claude Monet is known for his brilliance in his paintings of natural scenes. He was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist art movement. His techniques focused on color and lighting, which was vital to the Impressionist Movement. Through his choice of color and his vibrant brushstrokes, he was able to depict scenes in ways that were new to everyone. In The Tuileries, Claude Monet created a sense of elegance and peace that leaves people wishing they could walk into the painting and through the courtyard through his brilliant color, value, balance, and harmony.
Although from the same artist group, these Impressionists originated from backgrounds that seemed worlds apart. Claude Monet, known as the “Master Impressionist” varied the themes in his artwork more than any other artist did. Monet’s work “Impression Sunrise”, of which the term “Impressionist” originates also gives rise to the title “Master Impressionist”. Edgar Degas started his career as an artist with nothing in common with Monet but the era in which they lived. From themes to brushstrokes and choices of colours, Monet and Degas started their relationship as Impressionist artists on opposite ends of the earth. However, towards the climax of their lives as artists, Monet aided Degas in adopting Impressionist Aesthetic qualities.
Impressionism is very pretty and complicated. It was from 1860 to 1910. Monet is the perfect Impressionist. Impressionism had its basic tenants. Their subject matter was the middle upper class, the city, and leisurely activities. They painted on en plein air which means they painted outdoors. They painted in snow, rain, storm, just in order to record directly the effects of light and atmosphere. They painted with strokes and touches of pure color by using a great deal of white and rarely black. They recorded the shifting play of light on the surface of objects and the effect light has on the eye without concern for the physicality of the object being painted. They were influenced by Japanese art and photography. One of Monet’s works is titled Water Lilies. The medium of this work is oil on canvas. Monet is an impressionist. He puts up pure color just describe the water. He said, when you go out paint, the impression of the scene not the exact scene.
Claude Monet made the art community address a revolutionary type of art called impressionism. In a style not previously before painted, impressionism captured a scene by using bright colors with lots of light and different shades to create the illusion of a glance. The traditional method of working in a studio was discarded and the impressionist artists carried any needed supplies with them into the countryside and painted the complete work outside. The manufacture of portable tin tubes of oil paints as well as the discovery of ways to produce a wider range of chemical pigments allowed artists to paint in a way unimaginable before this period in time (Stuckey 12). Monet and others, such as Pierre Auguste Renior, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley, took this style of art to a new level never seen before.
Claude Monet is often considered one of greatest most dedicated of the Impressionist painters. His aim was to catch the light and atmosphere, something that was scarcely done before. He enjoyed painting outdoors and developed a free and spontaneous painting technique. His brushwork is remarkably flexible and varied. He often changed his technique, sometimes broad and sweeping other times dappled and sparkling.