Research Paper On Claude Monet

By the time he was seventeen, Monet was already making money from his work and had won a local reputation as a caricaturist. Skillful and amusing, his caricatures were displayed in the window of a local frame maker, Monsieur Gravier, where they drew crowds of appreciative viewers. Gravier also displayed paintings by the landscape painter Eugene Boudin, who was an old friend of his. Monet's development of friendship and informal tutelage of Boudin proved to be formative for Monet's future direction as a landscape painter. (Gordon, 38)

He demonstrated artistic talent as a youth, and was allowed to attend the drawing school of M. Alaux. At this school, “His fellow pupils, almost without exception, intended to be artists, and felt a contempt for Bouguereau on account of his business occupations; thus, when at the end of the year he took the prize for which all had striven, the excitement was so great that a riot occurred, and the pupils made a formal protest against his receiving it, but without effect.” (Erskine-Clement, 79-80). This type of reaction to Bouguereau’s success became quite typical within the art community. The impressionist and realist painters of his era despised his rigidly academic style, and commercial incentives. He was paid top dollar for his works, and even though he had great passion for his work, he realized that in order to succeed financially, his subjects must reflect the tastes of the market. This is perhaps one of the most intriguing things about Bouguereau, that despite the fact that his works were often commissioned, and that he was expected to paint certain subjects, his work still showcased a remarkable amount of passion and energy. The most successful period of his career was after his return to France in 1854, where “he became an immensely successful and influential exponent of academic art, upholding traditional values and contriving to exclude avant-garde work from the Salon” (Chilvers, 68). This is the period in

Jean-Michel Basquiat known as the famous artist Basquiat was Born On December 22nd, 1960 in Brooklyn, New york, Basquiat, who eventually became a famous artist . Basquiat was the son of Puerto Rican and Haitian parents, Matilda Andrades and Gerard Basquiat. Basquiat was the second child out of four siblings Max Basquiat, Jean-michel Basquiat, lisane Basquiat , and jeanine basquiat. However, shortly before Jean Michel Basquiat was born , his older brother Max Basquiat had died. When Basquiat was little he always loved to draw. On one incident Basquiat; who was a self taught artist,

One day in 1893, Pierre Bonaire strolled on the streets of Paris. Many years later, he will be the post-impressionist Zongjiang, founder of the Nabi School of painting and the world, but then, he was just a 26-year-old solo painter. In the street, he helped a girl cross the road, and then occasionally began to chat: she said he was 16 years old, called Mardel de Mellini, first came to Paris, working in the flower shop. Later she became Bonnard's model, and then naturally become the lover of Bonnard.

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.

Born on the 30th of March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands to his father Theodorus van Gogh, who was an austere country minister and mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus, who was a moody artist whose love for nature, drawing and water colours had been passed down to her son. Van Gogh’s art was notable for beauty, emotion and colour, at the age of 15 his family began suffering financially which meant he had to leave school and start working, he worked at his Uncle’s art dealership. In June of 1873 van Gogh was transferred to Groupil gallery in London and fell in love with the English culture and became

Claude was born in Paris, France in the year 1840. Despite the fact that Paris was his birthplace, Claude only spent 5 years of his childhood there as he and his family moved to Le Havre, a port town in Normandy. Claude developed a love for art in his early childhood and was well known in his town for drawing caricatures of his community members. His mother was highly encouraged his talent whereas Claude’s father wanted his son to become a businessman. Living in Le Havre, Claude had many opportunities to strengthen his talent such as meeting Eugene Boudin who was a local landscape artist and introduced Claude to landscape painting outdoors and set him on the track to his future success. In 1859 Claude moved back to Paris to pursue his career in art. During his time in Paris he was enrolled in the Academie Suisse and was influenced by the paintings of Barbizon School. Other great influences on his art were his friends Charles Gleyre, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille as well as Johann Barthold Jongkind who was a well-known landscape painter of the

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous and highly skilled artist. Vincent Van Gogh’s life and paintings show his incredible ability. To begin, Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot Zundert, Holland. A year before his mother had Vincent she had a stillborn boy that she named Vincent as well. His father was a minister and so he grew up being pretty religious. Vincent Van Gogh had no drive to spend time on art or artistic qualities while he was growing up. Van Gogh attended a boarding school in Zevenbergen and King Willem II secondary school in Tilburg when he was young. At the age of fifteen Vincent dropped out of school and never returned.

When Seurat was fifthteen, he entered a local drawing school then three years later he went to Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1878-1879 to study art.

John Everett Millais was born in Southampton, England in 1829. His mother, being very interested in art and music, encouraged Millais to pursue the same interests. Millais grew to become a child prodigy and was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools at the mere age of 11, an unprecedented achievement. There, he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with fellow students, whose goals were to relay a message of artistic renewal and moral reform. Millais produced many controversial works during his time as part of the Brotherhood. When he married his wife, Effie Millais, and his family grew with children, he realized he had to change his style to please the public; Millais needed the money to support his large family. Thus, he began to paint with

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Haute-Vienne, France in 1841. He worked as an apprentice in a porcelain factory, but was more attracted to the artwork in the Louvre. Renoir began studying under Charles Gleyre, who also taught the artist Claude Monet, in 1862. For years, he painted and found little success due to financial woes and losing connections to the Le Cœur family in 1874, causing Renoir to lose his favorite painting spot. This caused his artistic subject choices to change dramatically. Through the years, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis, leaving him in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. This struggle made him stronger as a person and an artist, as he continued to create despite his hardships.

In 1873, he married Mette Gad, a Danish woman who he moved back to Paris and had 5 children with. Painting started out as a hobby for Gauguin, but it soon became a job. Pissarro, who liked Gauguin’s art, invited him to exhibit with some impressionists, such as Edgar Degas and Claude Monet. Gauguin’s art dealer was Vincent Van Gogh’s brother. To do his art dealer a favour he went to live in Van Gogh’s home in Arles for a couple of weeks and they became friends, but there friendship came to an end when, in an argument Van Gogh held a knife to Gauguin.

His younger life was not particularly grand. Magritte was the eldest of three boys. His family struggled with money and had to move about the country quite often. As he grew older, he took an interest in art and pursued life at an art college. In 1916, Magritte left home for Brussels where he would spend the next two years attending the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts. No drastic turns in Magritte’s life influenced his desire to begin art. He simply just enjoyed it; but a tragic event in his life did lead him to paint in a new and unusual way. In 1912, Magritte’s mother committed suicide by drowning in a river. This major event took Magritte in a place he never thought he would go.

It was the cusp of 1870, and an artist was born. On December 31st little Henri Matisse of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France came into this world. Within his first five years of living, Matisse’s brother was born, and died. In the beginning, Matisse did not have fervor for drawing or painting. Instead, he was eager to work in law. As most people who choose to be lawyers do, he attended law school in Paris. Subsequently returning home to clerk for a law office, Henri Matisse was diagnosed with appendicitis. It took a whole year to recover from this sickness. In the meantime, Matisse needed something to do, thus began his art career.

Le Dejeuner proved to be of one of the more daunting pieces for Monet. Wagner claims that Le Dejeuner was so difficult for Monet to produce because she regards the piece “as among the most “personal” of Monet’s career” . The tremendous personalization of Le Dejeuner argued by Wagner is supported by the identifications of the models used to create the figures portrayed in the scene. One of the models used include Monet’s son Jean, who is depicted as the baby; Doncieux, Monet’s wife and mother to his son was, strangely enough, depicted as the visitor, while a neighbor posed as her true role; the mother. The use of such personal characters can be attributed to Monet’s attempt “to secure the psychic space necessary to look at his models and paint his picture”3. Wagner is referencing the emotional conflicts Monet suffered which were onset through his depictions of recurrent scenes of everyday life and when he was, in a sense, forced to stare at the models before him for extended periods of time.