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.

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)

Art has progressed in many ways throughout history; two prominent styles however that define the evolution of art are Realism and Impressionism. Realism is defined as “treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience”(realism). Two artists that are well known for this style of art are Gustave Courbet and Jean-François-Millet. Impressionism is defined as “a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brushstrokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects”(impressionism). Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir are pioneers of defining the Impressionist movement. These artists use a variety of techniques, perspectives, subject matter, as well as influences to create the art we see hanging in museums today.

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

Impressionism is an art movement initiated in France (Paris) in 19th century. The name of this art movement was taken from a French artist’s name called Claude Monet, who painted his artwork (impression, sunrise). Impressionism art movement combined a group of prominent French artists, who their exhibitions became more important through 1870 – 1880s, despite the opposition from the classical art community in France. Claude Monet’s painting was provoked by the Critic Louis Leroy.

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

Oscar-Claude Monet was a famous French painter who was one of the main artists of the Impressionism movement. Monet was an artist who was obsessed with light. The Royal Academy of arts didn’t accept his work but this was never a setback for him.

In 1874, Exhibition of members of the Private Company of Artists: Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Morisot, Degas and Sisley perplexed the society with the dematerialization of the reality in their paintings and signified the birth of the Impressionism as a new movement. However, a decade later, the concept of capturing of the immediate illusion exhausted itself, and crisis of Impressionism appeared with changes in painterly manner of Renoir, Degas interest in three-dimensionality, and Monet’s involvement with subjectivity of the perception. The new tendencies emerged: Cezanne experimented with perspective, color and visual mass, Seurat and Signac worked on color theory in its application to divisionism. These developments in painting remained innovative

Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were two prominent, influential painters that contributed and shaped their respective artistic periods: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Impressionist is a style of art that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction. Impressionism came about in the 1860’s. It is done by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes. Impressionism started with a group of Paris-based artist that there independent art work helped encourage the idea. The development of Impressionism in the art was soon followed by styles in other

The truth is that Manet painted virtually all of his pictures from everyday life situation. Therefore, his major works depicted Parisian social life at the end of 19th-century. People who were drinking, waiting, listening to the music, reading, talking to others in a cafe, and also including street people, singers, beggars, gypsies and bullfights became the main subjects for his paintings. He successfully brought his fresh and highly individual vision

I did my artist on Jean-François Millet. Millet was born in a farming community called the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague, Normandy. Jean lived a long life; his birthday was October 4, 1814 and died January 20, 1875 (age 60).

Claude Monet was one of the most well known influential impressionist painters in the 19th century. Among his famous paintings; is the The Seine at Vétheuil Circa provoking unusual visual images. The second French impressionist painter was Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose work was as phenomenal as Monet. His painting titled, L'Estaque in which he started to work on 1885 and finished 1890 was another remarkable painting associated with the impressionist movement. This paper is a personal reflective essay in which it will compare and contrast these two paintings and further demonstrate their history.

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

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