Claude Monet 's The Impressionist Era

Monet's painting Sunrise displays vivid color, which is commonly used among impressionists. The painting is of the sun rising over the lake, over looking the bay and the boats within. "Sunrise is a patently a seascape; but the painting says more about how one sees than about what one sees. It transcribes the fleeting effects of light and the changing atmosphere of water and air into a tissue of small dots and streaks of color-the elements of pure perception" (Fiero 114). This painting is typical of its style because it captures light at that moment. The sun is rising and its color is projected to everything in its path. Monet seems to capture this

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.

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.

His audience especially supported him on his road to fame in the late 1880’s and 90’s after his waterlilies series of artworks. During an exhibition in 1874 critics viewed Claude’s work ‘Impression Sunrise’ and dubbed painters who do such artworks as ‘Impressionists’. This was intended to be insulting as the critics thought the works to be more like unfinished drafts rather than a complete artwork. Claude on the other hand quite liked the term and embraced it fully as it fit his style quite well. During his lifetime Claude’s works were displayed in the Salon and by the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, and Graveurs in Impression Exhibitions. Currently, his works are displayed all over the world with most in Paris but many others in Britain, the USA and other European

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.

Pierre Auguste Renoir was born to a working class family in Limoges, Haute-Vienne on February 28, 1841. He worked in a porcelain factor as a young boy which helped to develop his paint skills as he was selected to paint designs on fine china. In his early years, he visited the Louvre, and studied the master artists of France. Renoir, like Monet, studied art under the hand of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862. Renoir was married to Aline Victorine Charigot in 1890, and had three children. Two years after marrying Aline, Renoir developed arthritis, causing him to adapt his painting methods to the point of strapping a brush to his paralyzed fingers. He never stopped painting however. In 1919. Renoir revisited the Louvre, and saw his own paintings

Andre Derain was born in a small town in Northern France called Chatou -- which at the time was an artists colony near Paris -- on Saturday, June 10, 1880. His dad was a successful pastry chef and town council member. As such, he received a middle class education, although it would appear he was unhappy as a student as he later stated “the teachers, ushers and pupils were a far more bitter memory for me than the darkest hours of my military career. ” At age 15 he began to take painting lessons from an old friend of his father and Paul Cezanne, La Noe.

Claude Monet was a guy that was born on November 14, 1840. He was in a famous place that many of us know as Paris, France (Beard, 2015). Monet might have been in Paris, but he grew up in Normandy coast (Beard,2015). Claude was the oldest son of Adolphe Monet. When he was five years old his dad took over a sip-chandlering and grocery business (William,2016). Monet as a child spent a lot of time along the beach. He was able to study the movement of the sea very well and his love for nature. His first painting that he sold was when he was 15. That painting was one of the ones he sketched with pencil of sailing ships (William,2016). He was guy that was known for his paintings by age sixteen. His aunt was also amateur painter and help him with his paintings with suggestions. The paintings that he was known for was for the series of caricatures of local personalities (Beard,2015). This is what had gotten his reputation up at age sixteen which to me is any early age to be a popular painter. Then as things went on he meets a guy named Eugene Boudin who was a marine painter (Beard, 2015). This artist let Monet to be able to see what air painting was like. It let him be able to change his views on painting to get a different perspective from this guy who teaching something new to him. After Monet learned about air painting it lead him on

Pierre -Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienna France. He was born during the nineteenth century. During the 1860s, he did not even have enough money to buy the paint. Renoir started first exhibiting paintings in the Paris Salon, in 1864. Renoir had six paintings hung in 1874, and the same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel, in London. Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color. He complete two amazing oil paniting The Dance in the City and The Dance at

The Art Story Foundation (ASF) (2015) discusses Claude Monet (1840-1926) as one of the leaders of French Impressionism of the late nineteenth century. With Edouard Manet (1832-1883) as an inspiration, Monet developed his own distinctive style in the 1860s. He blurred the clarity of forms and linear perspective with bold colors emphasizing on qualities of light and atmosphere going against traditional artistic precision.

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

On November 14th, Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. His parents took him back to their home in Le Havre, a commercial-maritime city widely known for many cliffs, open seas, and wonderful sunsets that made an everlasting impression on Monet that would forever show up in his work. His father’s

That is part of what makes him a steamist to me. Although the main focus of this painting is the light of the sun he uses another part of stem, engineering. A reporter named Geoffrey Mohan wrote an article named “Physicist puts time on timeless Monet painting”, which focuses on a physicist named Donald Olson of Texas State University and how he kind of do all this research on Impression, Sunrise. Olson looked at photographs and maps to try to figure out what time of day it was and what season it was. He tried to find all the specifics of this painting.

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

Impressionism as an historical art period is best described as a shift in thinking and focus. This paradigm shift, away from realism and toward individualism, began a centuries long transformation of self-expression in art as a whole. Impressionism is generally considered a French movement and is typically defined as spanning from approximately 1867 to 1886. Impressionism is best embodied by and was perhaps initiated by Claud Monet in such world-renowned works as Impressions: soleil levant which lent its name to the style and subsequently the art period as a whole.