Paper On Claude Monet

Impressionism is an artistic style of painting that originated in France in the 1870s. This style of painting attempts to capture an experience or emotion opposed depicting a scene accurately. Every impressionistic painter has a distinct method of rendering as well as their own distinct set of qualities that reflect the artist themselves. For instance, The Basket Chair by Berthe Morisot and The Orange Trees by Gustave Caillebotte are two impressionist works of art of oils on canvas that contrast in many ways. These two paintings will be compared side by side with an in depth approach comparing the artist’s personal status in society, modernism’s role in the piece, and the execution of composition.

Claude Monet is one of the most familiar and best loved of all Western artists. His images of poppy fields, poplar trees, water lilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar to people who have never seen the original paintings and may never have visited an art gallery. Monet's works have won a place in the affection of the general public that seems almost without parallel. (Rachman, 4) In the decades since his death in 1926, Monet's work has been intensely studied by a variety of art critics. However, none of his works have been as deeply studied as those done in Giverny, in the early twentieth century. During this time Monet's paintings, which focused on specific subject matter from various viewpoints,

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

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

Visual opulence, creativity, inimitable vision, and a style that is highly influential are the many characteristics of an admired movement in art history, that being of the Post-Impressionism movement (1875-1892). This movement, which was a by-product of the Impressionism movement, is the bridging gap between the two movements known as Realism and Expressionism. Post-Impressionism takes on some of the stylistic characteristics of these movements; however, it does not contain the all too glossy visuals of Realism or the heavily fantastic visuals of Expressionism, rather it is the intermediary of these two poles. My paper will discuss why this link was absolutely essential to the history of art movements, and I will be specifically using the

Splitting from the tradition, Monet painted the same image several times over, at different times of the day, under changing weather conditions, and rather than finishing them all on the spot, had them taken back to France, sometimes with photographers to refresh the memory of the scenes. This caused some upset, though the quality of his work still had not declined. Exceptionally enough, this piece dates to before his development of cataracts and subsequent removal operations (causing him to see more vivid hues of blue), and the paints are still blended masterfully to give a rendition of fog cover on the riverbanks.

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

For Henri Matisse, the scandal was just another dark episode in a painful struggle. Born in Bohain, a poor unlovely, industrial town in northern France, Henri was already a lawyer when he dismayed his working-class parents by deciding that art was his life's true calling. Painting never came easily to Matisse; he studied constantly. When he failed to break into the prestigious mainstream of French art, his family labeled him an embarrassment with no talent. But Henri, as uncertain and depressed as he was, had bigger worries than rejection. By 1905, he was 35, a married man with three children -and he was broke.

There were many obstacles in Monet’s lifetime that may have encouraged him to quit painting entirely. One specific obstacle that killed many painters’ careers in his time was the invention of photography. “Just as the introduction of the mechanical loom affected the work of the weaver, the invention of photography in 1839 took over much of the painter’s documentary work, portraits, illustrations and plates for books and journals”, (Ventura 128). In an historic effort Monet managed to bypass all of those obstacles. As a result to his efforts, Monet has become one of the most famous artists to this

Claude Monet painted outside and strove to capture the climate and the effects of the sunlight in his paintings. His Series of Haystacks is a collection of fifteen paintings, all featuring haystacks, or grainstacks, which were painted at various times of day and during different seasons of the year. These images beautifully express how much a painting can be transformed depending on the climate and light.

American Impressionism took shift in Paris, 1874 by a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters. They organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Impressionists depicted the everyday lives of middle-class people by using natural light and rapid brushwork. In addition to their fundamental technique, the bright colors of Impressionist canvases were shocking to people who were used to the more moderate colors of Academic painting. The paints themselves were more vivid as well. In the nineteenth century there was a development of unatural pigments for artists’ paints, providing vibrant shades of blue, green, and yellow that painters had never used before.1 Impressionism was never thought of

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.

When entering the room, people crowded around Monet’s pieces, which felt like an honor to see the type and techniques his work has. The colors describe the feeling of an early morning. The painting has a muted palette of blues, greens, and grays. The sunrise is orange and yellow which are surrounded by the clouds and smoke from steamboats. Three boats are shapes and visible while the rest fade into the distance. This painting is an example of plein air or outdoor painting. I also notice that Monet layered the colors so that when I viewed the painting from a far distance I knew what the painting was about however when I looked at it up close I saw brush strokes and

Impressionism began in 1860’s in Paris when a group of artists refused to paint in the realistic style of their day. These “originators” were rejected by the art society and denied to show their work in exhibitions or salons. Impressionists did not use the fine details in trying to paint an accurate replica of what they saw instead they painted what their brains saw as the overall impression of a particular scene. Rivers were no longer one whole body of blue and green, instead they became a myriad of colors intertwined to give an overall “impression” of a river. Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in art because of the way that it turned away from the modern art convention of the time that focused on the fine line details and instead centered on the sensory effect of the scene, the impression objects made on the eye in a fleeting instant. This style of painting was best captured in the outdoors, thus the artists moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting “en plein air” (www.theartstory.org/movement-impressionism.htm). “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another."-Édouard Manet

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.