Claude Monet (Claude Monet, November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), a French painter, a representative figure and one of the founders of Impressionism. Monet is one of the most important painters in France, and he promoted most of the theories and practices of Impressionism. Monet was good at experimentation and expression techniques of light and shadow.
Monet is one of the most important painters in France. He promoted most of the theories and practices of Impressionism.
Monet was good at experimentation and expression techniques of light and shadow. His most important style is the change in the painting method of shadows and outlines. In Monet's paintings, there are no clear shadows, no highlighted or flat outlines. In addition, Monet's use of color is very delicate. He used many paintings of the same theme to experiment with the perfect expression of color and light. Monet has been exploring the expressive effects of light, color and air for a long time. He often painted multiple depictions of the same object at different times and under different lights, expressing the feeling of the moment from the natural changes in light and color.
The Impressionist movement can be seen as the peak of the naturalistic tendency in the 19th century, and can also be seen as the starting point of modern art. Claude Monet's name is closely linked to the history of Impressionism. Monet, more than anyone else, contributed more to the formation of this artistic milieu and his new way of depicting reality. There is no doubt about this. Although the founder of Impressionism is Manet, it was Monet who really promoted it, because his depiction of the changes of light and shadow on the landscape has reached a superb level.
Biography
Oscar-Claude Monet (Oscar-Claude Monet, November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) , referred to as Claude Monet or Monet, the Taiwanese translation is Oscar Claude Monet, and the mainland traditional translation is Monet. The main French Impressionist painter and leader of the Impressionist movement.
Teenagers
Monet was born in Paris and his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when he was five years old. His father wanted him to inherit the family grocery store, but Monet wanted to become an artist.
At the age of 15, he first became famous for his charcoal cartoons. The price he offered for his works was 20 francs each. On the beaches of Normandy, he met the artist Eugène Boudin, who later became Monet's mentor and taught him how to paint in oils. When Monet came to the Louvre in Paris, he saw many painters imitating the works of famous artists. So, armed with paints and tools, he sat by a window and began painting what he saw.
Monet served as a soldier in Algeria for two years (1860-1862). Before his seven-year contract expired, Monet's aunt Madame Lecadre freed him from the army because of typhoid fever. , allowing him to complete a college art course.
Art Education
Because the traditional art education at the university awakened him, Monet joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862. There he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they created a new artistic technique that came to be known as Impressionism, which involved painting outdoors and in natural light with thick oil paints.
In 1866, he created "The Woman in the Green Dress" (The Woman in the Green Dress) with Camille Doncieux as the model. Soon after, she became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean.
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Monet came to England to seek refuge. There he studied the work of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, whose work inspired Monet's innovation in color research.
After returning to France, in 1872 or 1873, Monet created "Impression Sunrise" with a landscape in Le Havre as the background. It was unveiled at the first exhibition of Impressionist painters in 1874 and is now on display at the Musée Marmottan-Monet in Paris. Based on the title of this painting, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism".
Marriage
In 1870, Monet married Donsieux. In 1873, they moved into a house in Argenteuil on the Seine River. On March 17, 1878, they had another son, Michael. In 1879, Madame Monet died of tuberculosis.
Alice Hoschede decided to help Monet raise his two children. They lived in Poissy, but Monet didn't like it. In April 1883, they moved to Giverny in the Eure department of Upper Normandy. He planted a large garden and painted there for the rest of his life. Monet and Hoschede married in 1892.
Later period
In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet began a series of paintings, that is, painting the same object continuously in different lights and angles. His
first series of works, Rouen Cathedral, was painted from different angles and at different times of the day. In 1895, paintings of the cathedral from 20 different angles were exhibited at the Gurand-Ruel gallery. He also painted a series of straw bales.
Monet liked to paint restrained nature---his gardens, his water lilies, his ponds and his small bridges. He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine.
Between 1883 and 1908, Monet painted many landscapes and seascapes in the Mediterranean.
His wife Alice died in 1911, and his son Jean died in 1914.
Cataracts required Monet to undergo two surgeries in 1923.
He died on December 5, 1926 and was buried in the cemetery of Giverny church.