Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet And Berthe Morisot

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Carteaux Museum Paper Multiple important artist came out of the impressionism era, for example Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot, ect. Each of these artist are well known and have made a huge impact on the world. They created artwork that was out of their time and really created an “impression”(pun intended). Out of all of the important artist of this time, two really stood out, they were Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot. Monet is one of the most remembered artist of this time, one of his most famous works is Water Lilies. It is a huge, beautiful painting, created with lots of cool tones. Morisot was also well remembered, one of her paintings is In the Garden at Maurecourt. It is quite a bit smaller than Monet’s painting but is equally as beautiful. The two paints have similarities and differences throughout them. Water Lilies and In the Garden at Maurecourt are similar by …show more content…

She used her daughter and her sister’s daughter in her painting, In the Garden at Maurecourt. “Her work portrayed scenes of everyday life, often with women and children. She also painted landscapes, again incorporating women and children. Her mother and sister made frequent appearances in her paintings”(Berthe Morisot). This quote just goes to show that she painted everyday life which had people in not just nature. Her choice of incorporating people allowed her to really become accepted from the press because they didn’t see her as just an impressionist artist, they saw her as more. With her use of people, she created a wider range of what she could actually draw and paint, unlike Monet, where he created a series of water lilies, although those paintings were very beautiful, they would somewhat always look alike because they were being painted with the same thing about the same focal points. This really allowed Morisot to become accepted as one of the first impressionist

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