Research Paper On Claude Monet

Claude Monet was born in 1840 in France. In 1851 Monet entered the Le Harve Secondary School of Art. “He first became locally known for his charcoal characters. A few years later in 1856 he met Eugen Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paintings.” (Gallery). (1) Boudin encouraged Monet to paint landscapes. Monet took Eugen’s advice, and this helped launch the rest of his career. Claude Monet, is known as the Father of Impressionism. He was given this title through his painting Impression Sunrise. Monet got a lot of attention on this painting but most of it was bad. “One critic, Louis Leroy, in a review in Le Charivari newspaper that gave the movement's name, Leroy wrote: ‘Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.’” (Museum). Monet said “if that’s what they think then that’s what I’m going to be an impressionist.” When he painted impression sunrise the word impression was used as an insult.

Monet said “I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects haystacks, but at this season the sun sets so fast I cannot follow it. The more I continue, the more I see that a great deal of work is necessary in order to succeed in rendering what I seek.” (Met). (3) Haystacks were the first group of paintings that Monet exhibited as a series. “In 1890, fifteen haystacks paintings were shown at the gallery Durand-Ruel in