Claude Monet, is considered the most famous French Impressionist artist, also due to his marine painting "Impression, Sunrise", which was published in 1874. The style was named after this painting.
Born on November 14, 1840 in Paris.
Died on December 06, 1926 in Giverny.
Claude Monet became above all known for his atmospheric, evocative Water Liles. In 1860, he learned to know the artist Pissarrot through his studies at the Académie Suisse and, shortly afterwards, in the studio, Charles Gleyre, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. With them, he established the new style called "Impressionism". Influenced by the plein-air painting of Boudin, Claude Monet began to paint traditional subjects in an entirely style, which opposed the academic requirements: He replaced the low-dimensional presentation by atmospheric painting. Instead of choosing solid form painted in local colors, he composed his characters and objects from in tiny spots of color. Like a building looking different in the varying natural daylight from one moment to the next, Claude Monet presented the same landscape repeatedly on the canvas, using new emotional variations each time. After experiencing strong hostility from the part of the Academy in his early work, as all his Impressionist friends did, Claude Monet came to fame and prestige with his late work from 1883 onwards. Especially his light-flooded water lilies and lily cycles performing looming movements and his pictures showing the Rouen Cathedral, which were created in 1892, contributed to this. |
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Oil Paintings