Claude Monet 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

This essay analyses the aesthetic and ideological underpinnings of the Modernist artwork, Impression, Sunrise of Claude Monet. The artwork and Impressionism is considered to be a visual articulation of the avant-garde and the latter statement is explained. References to the writings of Charles Harrison, Clement Greenberg and Wilhelm Worringer is used to theorise the aesthetics of modernity.

Monet spent a great deal of his youth in Normandy, growing up in a suburb of Le Havre, where this view was painted. Even though this painting was completed very early in his career, Monet must have thought greatly of this piece, as he showed it in an exhibition held in Paris in 1876.

He used the money made from selling his caricatures to fund a trip to Paris. Paris turned out to be a place of opportunity for Monet where he enrolled in the Academie Suisse. He studied there for a small time until he was drafted into military service. After a brief stint in the military, Monet went back to painting and Paris and had the fortune of meeting a painter that would help influence his own work, Johan Barthoid Jungkind. Johan Barthoid Jungkind was a English painter who already had developed an impressive amount of notoriety in the art world. Jungkind took Monet under his wing. Monet accredited Jungkind with the actual development of his artistic eye (House

The painting Impression: Sunrise, or Impression: Soleil Levant, was what brought Monet his greatest success. “It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan-Moret, Paris” (Biography 2). Even though this was not his first or best painting it is the one that has left the most mark, for it was the initial spark for Impressionism. It was this success that earned him and other fellow artists the title of the “Impressionists.” Monet began to earn great amounts of money and was able to move out to his dream home in Giverny.

Monet was enamored by the allure of natural light, which is why he used that as one of the main factors in his paintings. Monet would go to several lengths to get the perfect light. In Susan Stamberg’s article “Monet's Canvas Cathedrals: A Life Study of Light” she says that he should go from canvas to canvas for each scene he painted just to catch the light as it shifted. He would paint at least two to four paintings of the same scene. Through his paintings he tried to help others see the spectrum of natural light in different scenarios such as in the Grainstack and Poplars paintings.

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.

Impressionism art can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting, it was developed in Paris in the 1860’s but wasn’t first exhibited until 1874. Impressionist art turned away from the fine finish and detail that artist during the same time aspired to create. Impressionist captured or at least tried to capture momentary, and sensory effect of a scene. Impressionist didn’t rely heavily on realistic depictions of an object or scene, they loosed the brushwork and lightened their palettes to include intense pure colors. They didn’t follow the traditional linear perspective and clarity that previous art forms depicted to lesser ones. Many critics during the time faulted the impressionist paintings because of that

Who is Monet? Usually the response I get is, “The flower guy?” Oscar-Claude Monet was the first French impressionist painter. Impressionism is the philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. According to Jie Chang the term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Claude Monet was born in Paris on the 14th November, 1840. When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. For much of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He developed a decent reputation in school for the caricatures he was fond of creating. By the age of fifteen, he was receiving commission for his work.

Once there Monet met his first art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel. After the war, his family moved to Argenteuil, France. “Banding together with several other artists, Monet helped form the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, as an alternative to the Salon and exhibited their works together.” He and other artists created an art group to challenge the Salon. These artists were Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet. The two hardships that Monet faced in his life was financial hardship associated with the birth of his first son and the death of his wife after she had been sick. “Throughout her life, Monet had painted her portrait several things capturing her beauty, graciousness, and joy of life on canvas.” Camille had been his muse, and model in some of his paintings. With her passing, Monet felt lost and angry and grieved for the longest time alone. These two things had a huge impact on his paintings that he made. Here is the in the artwork, especially with the brush stroke. painting that he made of his wife when she passed away. The painting shows impressionist styles by using thick brush strokes. Camille looks peaceful, sleeping in a cocoon of blankets is protecting her. It seems as though Monet painted a bouquet of flowers on top of her, white and

Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and would become known as one of France’s famous painters. Monet is often attributed with being the leading figure of the style of impressionism; but this was not always the case. Monet started out his career as a caricaturist, showing great skill. Eventually “Monet began to accompany [Eugène] Boudin as the older artist . . . worked outdoors, . . . this “truthful” painting, Monet later claimed, had determined his path as an artist.” Monet’s goal took off as his popularity grew in the mid 1870s after he switched from figure painting to the landscape impressionist style. William Seitz supports this statement through his quote, “The landscapes Monet painted at Argenteuil between 1872 and 1877 are

Claude Monet (1840-1926) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was one of the founding member of French impressionist movement painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement (Seitz). At a very young age of 15, Monet created his first developed a local reputation as a caricaturist. Through an exhibition of his caricatures in 1858 Monet met Eugène Boudin, a landscape painter who was the man responsible for introducing Monet to the new artistic style of painting and encouraging Monet to paint under open skies(Seitz). this

In the 19th century, there was an artistic transition from realism to a new form called impressionism. This change originated in France, as the world underwent a transition to industrialization. The impressionist was able to understand how light and color operate hand in hand in a painting. Instead of seeing an image as a whole work, impressionist would see smaller images making up the entire piece. The style was primarily made of the use of intense colors, open composition, light and movement and brush strokes. They were mainly concerned with producing visual reality in their paintings in terms of fleeting effects of color and light.