All Rights reserved. November 13, pm. Read More About: Claude Monet. Powered by WordPress. Our Sites. Close the menu Menu. ARTnews Expand the sub menu. He regularly confessed his love for nature and painting in letters to Camille and Alice. He was the demiurge of the impressionist movement. Before Monet, great painters mainly painted in workshops and sought a completely unrealistic outcome in paintings by depicting subjects individually, as if basing them on statues. Claude Monet, on the other hand, sought to depict lights, shapes, and colours as his eyes perceived them.
It must be said that this practice was facilitated by two inventions: paint in tubes and the easel, which made painting outside easier. It is therefore to Claude Monet that we owe the greatest works of the 19 th and 20 th centuries — those of Pissarro, Degas, Manet, and many more. Upon his death, his close friend Clemenceau refused to see him covered with a black cloth and replaced it with colourful, flowery curtains… 10 Painting was his entire life!
You may also like… Terry Watts. Andrew Francis. Monet's father, Adolphe, worked in his family's shipping business, while his mother, Louise, took care of the family. A trained singer, Louise liked poetry and was a popular hostess.
In , at the age of 5, Monet moved with his family to Le Havre, a port town in the Normandy region. He grew up there with his older brother, Leon. While he was reportedly a decent student, Monet did not like being confined to a classroom. He was more interested in being outside. At an early age, Monet developed a love of drawing. He filled his schoolbooks with sketches of people, including caricatures of his teachers.
While his mother supported his artistic efforts, Monet's father wanted him to go into business. Monet suffered greatly after the death of his mother in In the community, Monet became well-known for his caricatures and for drawing many of the town's residents. After meeting Eugene Boudin, a local landscape artist, Monet started to explore the natural world in his work.
Boudin introduced him to painting outdoors, or plein air painting, which would later become the cornerstone of Monet's work. In , Monet decided to move to Paris to pursue his art. There, he was strongly influenced by the paintings of the Barbizon school and enrolled as a student at the Academie Suisse. During this time, Monet met fellow artist Camille Pissarro, who would become a close friend for many years.
From to , Monet served in the military and was stationed in Algiers, Algeria, but he was discharged for health reasons.
Returning to Paris, Monet studied with Charles Gleyre. He also received advice and support from Johann Barthold Jongkind, a landscape painter who proved to be an important influence to the young artist. Monet liked to work outdoors and was sometimes accompanied by Renoir, Sisley and Bazille on these painting sojourns. Monet won acceptance to the Salon of , an annual juried art show in Paris; the show chose two of his paintings, which were marine landscapes.
Though Monet's works received some critical praise, he still struggled financially. The following year, Monet was selected again to participate in the Salon. This time, the show officials chose a landscape and a portrait Camille or also called Woman in Green , which featured his lover and future wife, Camille Doncieux.
Doncieux came from a humble background and was substantially younger than Monet. His aunt paid to get him released from the army, and she enrolled him in art school in Paris. He hated creating formulaic artwork, copying the art that hung in the Louvre, and painting scenes from ancient Greek and Roman myths. Depressed and struggling to support himself and his family financially, Monet jumped off a bridge in In , Monet was spending his summer in a rented home in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris.
His friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited Monet to spend time together and paint outdoors. During his visit, Renoir painted Monet painting in his garden, creating a painting within a painting. The painting, straightforwardly called Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil , depicts Monet standing outside as he paints flowers. The exhibition included groundbreaking artwork featuring bright, vivid colors and loose, seemingly spontaneous brushwork.
Monet frequently painted his first wife, Camille Doncieux, who worked as a model and had been in a relationship with the artist since the mid s they married in
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