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ART HISTORY ESSAY

Claude Monet

His Life As A Painter

Claude Monet was born on the 14th

of November 1840, in Paris, France and

died on the 5th of December 1926, Giverny. He was a French painter who was

the initiator, leader and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. In his

older works Monet advanced his method of producing and repeated studies of

the same decorative design in series, in this way by changing canvases,

(which is a piece of such cloth prepared for use as the surface for an oil

painting), with the light. These series were frequently exhibited in groups. For example; his images of haystacks in 1891 and the Rouen Cathedral 1894. At

his home in Giverny, Monet created the water lily pond that provided as

inspiration for his last series of paintings. All of his painting gave interest in the

second half of the 20th century.So people were interested in his paintings.

The color and light in the paintings he produced. W hen his works traveled

though out the world in museum exhibitions it attracted crowds as it was the

best achievement in the WORLD and was being held popular commercials by

featuring imagery from his art.

Childhood

When Claude, the eldest son of Adolphe Monet, a grocer was five years old,

the family moved to the coast of Normandy, near Le Havre, where his father

took over the management of his family's thriving ship chandelling and

grocery business.

First Impressionist paintingsWhen he was a teenager he studied drawing. In 1859, Monet had committed

himself to a career as an artist and began to spend as much ti me in Paris as

possible. In the 1860s he was associated with the preimpre ssionist painter

Eduard Monet and ambitious towards achieving something as the French

painters developed to form the impressionist school Camille Pissarro, Pierre

Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.



Later Impressionism

By the mid 1880s Monet generally watched as the leader of the impressionist

school. He had achieved significant recognition and financial security. In spite

of the boldness of his color and the extreme simplicity of his compositions. Hewas recognized as a master of showing great attention to de tail and

observation. In other words, an artist who sacrificed neither the true quality of

being verycomplicated of nature of his own feelings.

His Later Years

In 1890 he was able to purchase a property in the village of Giverny not that

far away from Paris. Claude Monet decided to construct, to make a huge

garden. In his garden there was and is still today a Lily pond with a Japanese

bridge and overhung Willows and bamboo trees. At the beginning of 1906 all

the paintings of the pond and the water lilies kept him busy for the rest of his

life. Throughout these years he also worked on his other celebrated "series"

of paintings, groups of works representing the same subject haystacks,

poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the river Seine seen in varying light, at different

times of the day or seasons of the year. In spite of failing eyesight. Monet

continued to paint almost up to the time of his death, on December 5, 1926, at

Giverny.

Tragic Accidents In his Life;

y In 1857 Death of his mother Louise Monet

y In 1879 Death of Camille

y In 1891 Death of Hoschehé

y In 1911 Death of Alice

y In 1914 Death of Jean, his oldest son

y In 1923 Claude Monet looses his eyesight.

His Best Painting Was:

Soleil Levant; Impressionism

Impressionism is a style or movement in painting originating in France in the

1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the

moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.

The Main Painters;



The I essi ist i ters repudi ted th the precise cademic st le and

the emotional concerns of omanticism, and their interest in ob jecti e

representation, especiall of landscape, as influenced by ear ly photography.

Impressionism met at first ith suspicion and scorn, but soon became deeply

influential. Its chief exponents included onet, enoir , Pissarro, anne,egas, and Sisley.

What I Im i i m Nam ter?

The I I f rom rench impressionisme, f rom impressionism, or iginally

applied unf avorably ith ref erence to onet s painting Impression: Soleil

levant .

Source: Biography of laude onet

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