Claude Monet has been one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading the Impressionist Movement, he brought forth new ideals in the art world. Monet had a rough beginning, with many critics disapproving of his unconventional art style, but his revolutionary works would come to be loved and would influence many future artists. Claude Oscar Monet (though some sources say Oscar-Claude Monet) was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris (“Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). He and his older brother, Leon (“Claude Monet”), were born to Claude-Adolphe Monet, a grocer, and Louise-Justine Aubrée, a singer. Monet’s father wanted him to continue the family’s grocery store business, but he wanted to be an artist instead (Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). This may have been due to, in part, his mother’s influence—being a singer, she taught him to appreciate the arts (“Claude Monet and His Paintings”). On April 1, 1851, at age ten, Monet attended the Le Havre secondary school of the arts (“Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). He was considered a decent student, but he would much rather be outside with nature than confined in the …show more content…
. . 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. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow.” Monet wasn’t very religious, and it’s possible that he was even an atheist. Some say he used painting as a sort of form of meditation
Through a series of solid strokes of paint in his canvas, Monet managed to present society with a completely new outlook, literally, on one’s visual aspect. Claude-Oscar Monet, famous French painter, was a highly innovative artist back in the 1800s. His works inspired other artists who followed suite and teamed up promptly with Monet, soon enough gaining for themselves the title of “The Impressionists.” He contributed not only to the art culture, but also to the entirety of society through his paintings as if telling the world not to be afraid of anything different and emphasized the importance to look at things with deeper perception other than that which our vision enables us to see. Claude-Oscar Monet is also known as the father of Impressionism,
But there was still a great deal of interest in Monet's work. During this period, Monet began a final series of 12 waterlily paintings commissioned by the Orangerie des Tuileries, a museum in Paris. As he experienced in other points in his life, Monet struggled with depression in his later years. Despite his feelings of despair, he continued working on his paintings until his final day on December 5, 1926, at his home in Giverny.
Van Gogh based his paintings on the observable world around him, but he wanted to paint beyond the superficial reality of nature and express its mystery and power through an impulsive and spontaneous approach to painting. Self Portrait (dedicated to Gauguin) exhibits this desire. Although based on an observed scene, van Gogh uses non-naturalistic colors for expressive purposes. For example, van Gogh’s choice to paint a self-portrait on a baby-blue/light turquoise background was a radical step away from a naturalistically-colored background that would be seen in a Realist self-portrait (i.e.
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.
Having been greatly influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, who was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter most famous for his work, Starry Night (Figure 1), and an “influential figure in the history of Western art” (McKenna, 2015, p. 83), my creative work in photography includes still life and local landscapes. According to McKenna (2015), Van Gogh used contrasting colours and tones to achieve dramatic and vibrant masterpieces. Van Gogh also liked to play with lines and brushstrokes to lead the viewer through his painting. These ideas of using contrast and lines from Van Gogh is what influences most of my creative work, but instead of using oil paint and brushes, I use my digital camera to paint light. A Man’s Best Friend (Figure 2), is a photograph I
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
Both paintings are used by oils to make the images. First both artist would have to sketch the picture first then they would have to mix some oil paints while applying color to the photos. Mixing oils can make colors lighter or darker. For example, in the Claude Monet image, she has different color blues in the sky and in the water, while having a more grayish blue color, mixed with the color green. In both pieces, there is are multiple boats in the water. One last thing that both images have in common is that they each have a song that can be sung. With the London Bridge, the sone “London Bridge is Falling Down”, and with the sunset image, there is “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”.
As a result of the success of the Creuse Valley series, Monet developed his skills as a series painter devising a system for his innovative style. Still utilizing his impressionist roots, Monet took his art further by blending what he knew with this new and original expression. Monet began his series work in front of the subject, often working on several modest sized canvases simultaneously. The Art Gallery of New South Wales states, “…he would take several canvases to the same site each day, replacing a canvas whenever he noticed the light had altered. Groups of paintings with identical composition showed mutations in colour, tonality, and texture, evoking the passage of time.” [4] This series technique was a great way to intensely study subtle
Monet has a skill for light and dark unlike any other, so one could adequately rate his technique at around II. People still talk about Claude Monet’s painting skill a revolutionary way when it comes to the art of the Enlightenment. The inherent meaning of the poem deserves an I, as it so boldly displays many different interpretations of his wife and son. However, Monet failed to make his work on this painting stand out against other artists of the time, so his ability to paint uniquely in this sense is about an III. He finally pulls out a strong II with fulfilled intent, because his repetition and rebellion against classical art come out clearly in this particular
Pablo Picasso once stated, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions.” This quote explains how Picasso’s work changed over the course of his life. Picasso had several art periods in which anyone is able to see the change of both colors and emotions in his works. For example, Picasso’s Blue period showed his melancholic emotions through blue tones, while during his Rose period he used brighter red and pink tones showing his more happy emotions. Pablo Picasso’s works expressed his emotions and depicted events throughout his life. Picasso’s artwork greatly influenced many people during his lifetime and he became even more influential and revered for his artwork after his death.
Claude Monet is one of the most familiar and beloved of all Western artists. His images of poppy fields, poplar trees, water lilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar. Monet's works have won the affection of the general public in a way that seems almost without parallel. In the decades since his death in 1926, Monet's work has been intensely studied by a variety of art critics Claude Oscar Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, but he spent much of his childhood in the port town of Le Havre. During these early years, Monet had very few artistic influences.
Claude Monet, the forefather of French Impressionist painting, dedicated the majority of his life illuminating the canvas with his series of water lilies during the 20th century. His style of work is recognized worldwide for its variation in color and peaceful undertone. Although Monet was baptized Catholic and was later classified as an atheist by art historians, Katharine Lochnan, a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) regards Monet as Zen Buddhist due to his uniquely spiritual presence on the canvas. Monet spent hours in his Japanese water garden, observing the pink hues of his hybridized water lilies while in a hypnotic state. Lochnan curated a new exhibition titled, “Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh, and
Monet 's aspiration of painting the French countryside drove him to embrace a technique for painting the same scene repeatedly, trying to catch the changing of light and the death of the seasons. From
According to Merleau-Ponty in the “Eye and Mind”, painters play with perception in a visual art form. Merleau-Ponty says “only the painter is entitled to look at everything without being obligated to appraise what he sees” (Merleau-Ponty 293). Perception is the key to not only understanding ourselves, but also understanding the world. It is when we separate ourselves from our own perceptions that we see the non-duality of things. That we are one with our world whether we see it in our perspective or not. Painters ability to paint shows that they have begun to work through the non-duality nature of existence and are aware of their chiasm and that existence goes beyond that.
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