Art: Claude Monet: Art And Impressionism

During his ‘Dutch’ period, Van Gogh’s subject matter was primarily focused on the lifestyle of the poor and the bible (Dubecky). In his ‘French’ period, Van Gogh had begun to shift his focus to drawing nude figures and portraits. Monet, conversely, liked to paint his subject matters in series. He would paint “the same subject at different times of the day in different lights” (Brown 1536). Some series that he painted included water lilies, bridges, and haystacks. Something that Van Gogh and Monet both really took passion in is basing their art on their life experiences. They both painted their surroundings such as landscapes, seascapes, and people around them. Van Gogh would also draw still lifes of food and would paint paintings based on his emotions during his recovered bouts of mental illness.

Seurat and Monet both approach the same ideas and concepts to create too very separate and unique works that actually have a lot in common in subject matter as well as both historically and stylistically. Overall, both paintings, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat and La Grenouillère by Claude Monet, are excellent

French history is filled with an amazing culture that consists of beautiful architecture and delicious food. One aspect of French culture that stands out is its Art. Among the famous artists that have contributed over the years, one artists name stands out among the rest, Claude Monet. Claude Monet is known for being one of the influential artists to introduce impressionism. In a style not previously before painted, impressionism depicted a landscape or scene by creating illusion through the use of shading and coloring. Traditional painting was produced in an art studio, but impressionism was a unique. It allowed the artist to shed the use of a studio and step out into nature. Monet and other famous artists launched this new style of art that challenged traditional painting and would forever change French culture and influence art for many years to come.

Edgar Degas and Claude Monet used different techniques and styles in their paintings. Monet has been described as “The Driving force behind Impressionism”. He studied the reflection of the light and its effects on the colors and also he preferred to paint in indoor places. Edgar Degas was different form another impressionist painters, his style reflected his respect to his old masters. Also, he preferred to paint in outdoors places. Moreover, Degas’s art style depended on the depiction of the art movement especially in his dancers drawings. Also, he used oil paintings and pastels in his drawings.

Claude Monet sparked the beginning of the Impressionist movement and began to paint “en plein air” as suggested by a friend. Monet focused on the creation of a modern painting instead of subjects on social commentary that the artists (the “Realists”) before him depicted. He explored personal impressions of light and color throughout his career, mainly focusing on the way light played across a surface. He would change the appearance of a painting the more the natural light changed throughout the day, “capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere” (Stokstad 989). This is shown in his painting Impression: Sunrise; even though, this painting, and technique, were criticized. Critics ridiculed his fast, open brushstrokes, and calling it “unfinished” (Stokstad 987). However, this was the intention of Impression: Sunrise and that of his future paintings as well.

Claude Monet was an impressionist who used and changed art conventions such as the Salon des Refusés and the world as a source of ideas to create artworks such as “Impression, Sunrise”. The impressionists of the late 1800s wanted to capture the ephemeral moment in time. The artists had a major focus with the light and colour of the moment than with the details of

He was a guy that raised and grew everything he almost ate. He had free ranged turkeys and chickens. It was crazy to find out that he was so into growing in his garden and raising these animals while being a very influential painter (Bordman & Fell 2015). They say he could connect with nature very well and therefore surround him with all of this food. Since Claude was able to connect with nature so well he was able to see beauty in things that others could not see. He was living in a pink house that had all of his gardens and plants around it that he loved so dearly. The garden behind his pink house almost looked like a painting in how he had it so welly organized with the families of food grouped together and the trees that apples that took a lot of space bordering the outside boundary of the yard (Bordman & Fell 2015). . This all comes to a surprise to me that he was so into gardening and painting, but like Meryl Sheep says that “Claude Monet was much more than an artist. Although he claimed to be good at only two of life's endeavours – painting and gardening – he lived a life that included entertaining leaders in art and politics in the large dining room of his beautiful home in the bucolic Normandy countryside.” This shows how he was a very unique guy that was in this world (Bordman & Fell 2015).

The Impressionist paintings usually had as its subject the outdoors, with figures enjoying their leisure time. Although one might argue that this subject had been common in French painting since Medieval Times, The Impressionists shifted the subjects matter from the Ancient Regime’s scenes depicting the high classes, to “scenes of bourgeois domesticity and of more risqué forms of urban entertainment”. The Haussmannization of Paris, the egalitarian mindset born from the revolutions, and the facilitation of transportation made the bourgeoisie able to engage in outdoor activities like “boating, strolling”, and luncheons, which before were exclusive to the elites. Because of this, The Impressionists, lead my Monet who picked up from the Realist and Naturalist Schools, began depicting trivial activities of leisure, popular destinations surrounding

Claude Monet was the chief pioneer of the Impressionism period. Monet was born in Paris (1840-1926) and moved near Le Havre at a young age. At only the age of 15, Monet created his first successful drawings of caricatures. Monet continued to study drawing until he met Eugene Boudin, who is responsible for intruding Monet to a new style of painting; stepping outside the studio and painting in the open air. This style would give way to more than 60 years of art that used "effective methods to

Monet lived a long life, when his art start being sold in his later life, he bought a land which had an artificial pond, hence his paintings, “Water Lilies” which is actually a series of 250 paintings. Unlike Manet, Monet hasn’t painted a landscape. Monet hasn’t used any light so no source of light can be seen. Monet hasn’t focused on one single form in his painting instead, throughout the painting, each object or form has its own detail. I think that the image looks rather unrealistic; however it seems that Monet was actually painting what he felt because when one looks at the painting, it seems like an image from a dream rather than real life. Monet has called this series, “my most beautiful work of

Claude Monet had a different style of painting in the 1800’s. He was a French painter who shed a whole new light on the way painting could be done; he also was a lead figure in the impressionist movement. To this day, Monet made such a huge impact on the world, that you can find his paintings in museums across the globe!

. . was to share the experience of a blind person suddenly restored to sight, so that he could see the world anew.” Even the way in which he approached painting was out of the ordinary. Instead of trying to paint specific objects, Monet broke the objects down into the colors and shapes that made them up. He once gave advice to an American painter in 1890, saying “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever.

The 1800’s were a time when art merely showed our three-dimensional world on a two- dimensional plane. Claude Monet, a famous French impression painter, sought to change these Victorian standards that he so resented with his Impressionist ideals. During an art exhibition in 1874, Monet debuted his painting Impression, Sunrise which was critiqued by many other artists. One artist acridly dubbed it the title of Impression in that it did not focus on the scene at hand but instead favored lighting. However, Monet did not let this get to him and in fact, let it drive him to push for change in the art community. Monet used colors, technique, and impressionism ideals on to convey the new way that he believed art should be created.

Claude Monet was an artist born in the 19th century. He was well known for being one of the founders of the art movement know as impressionism. Monet created many art series in which he would paint one object multiple times, one of his most famous series being waterlilies, which was created towards the end of his life. The painting I will be talking about today is one of his many waterlily paintings, painted in 1904, ‘Waterlilies’ or ‘Nympheas’ was just one of 250 paintings in this series. The medium is oil paint on canvas and depicts a relaxing scene with waterlilies on a lake. This piece of art was part of an art period where where it defied social standards in France and was

Claude Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. He developed a love of drawing at an early age. His mother supported him in his artistic skills but his father wanted him to focus on business. Monet suffered greatly when his mother died in 1857. Was often with great artists like Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille. He attended the Academie Suisse where he developed his artistic abilities.