Claude Monet is widely recognized as one of the towering figures of art world. His paintings of haystacks and the gardens at Giverny continue to attract visitors to museums all over the world. Both the subjects of his paintings and his techniques are the dominant representations of the Impressionist movement.
This paper is a biographical essay of Claude Monet. The first part of the paper looks at Monet's biography, including his early training and influences. The next part then examines Monet's role in the development of the Impressionist movement, the break from classical painting and the beginnings of modernist art. In the last section, the paper looks at how Monet's contributions to Impressionism continue to influence artists decades after his death.
Biography
Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, although his family soon moved to the coastal town of Le Havre, where he grew up. His father was a successful…...
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Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France and he died on December 5, 1926. Though his father wanted him to go into business, his mother believed in his artistic abilities and backed him up. He had a remarkable career in art although he did have setbacks. This paper reviews his life and his skills as an artist.
The Young Claude Monet
It is clear from several biographies of Monet that he really didn't show a lot of interest in academics, and he wasn't very fond of classroom situations. In 1845 (he was 5 years old) Monet and his family moved to Le Have, a town by the Atlantic Ocean in the Normandy region of France. The ocean was a draw for him -- "He was more interested in being outside" than inside studying -- and his talent began to be shown when he drew caricatures of his teachers…...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Gareth Stevens, 2004.
Art / Claude Monet
PAINTING
The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool -- by Claude Monet
Claude Monet's painting The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily (given above) is the scene of his residence in the village Giverny near Paris where the painter purchased a property of his own. He started to build a water garden which is now open to the public which is a Lily pond arched with a Japanese bridge and overshadowed with willows and tuft of bamboo. Starting in 1906, the paintings of the pond and the water lilies kept him busy for the remaining part of his life, which adore the Orangerie, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Modern Art in NY City. His style of painting is popularly known as the Impressionist style that brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression. (It Looks Like…...
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Claude Monet and ater Lilies
This research paper aims to discuss one of the better known impressionist artists, Claude Monet and his rendition series, one of the 'ater Lilies' on display in the Toledo Museum of Art. This research piece combines information about the life and works of the artist as well as the famous series of 48 landscapes started shortly before the armistice of orld ar I. Obviously, when one discusses Monet, he or she can be assumed to be thinking or talking about Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome or New York. Certainly Toledo, Ohio would never come to mind. This research shows that Toledo has to be known for more than just the actor Jamie Farr's character on the old television series now in heavy rerun, Mash 4077. Yes, Toledo is more than just Maxwell Q. Klinger. Toledo holds just one of the many examples of a true genius,…...
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art is the lifeblood of a culture and the most entertaining form of expression, paintings are the key to the discipline of art. ith the advancement of paintings, their techniques and the shifting trend all combines to determine the direction of a nation's culture. Like all other fields, history has witnessed revolutionary amendments in the field of art specifically in terms of paintings and various approaches. Claude Monet, the French Impressionist painter (1840-1926) is the pioneer of the revolutionary movement impressionism in the field of art as far as paintings are concerned. This research paper introduces this renowned painter of the 19th century and discusses his life history as well as one of his works in detail.
Literature: Claude Monet
Introduction
Claude Monet was certainly an innate artist who, with the help of his brilliant painting skills later brought a revolution in the related field.
Overview of Claude Monet
Since childhood he displayed the…...
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Famous Artist: Claude MonetThe famous French Impressionist painter Monet was born in 1840. His full name was Oscar-Claude Monet, and he was baptized a Catholic in Paris. When he was 16, his mother died. His father wanted him to go into the family business, but Monet had received encouragement from his mother, who had been a singer, to pursue art. Monet moved around a great deal in his youth, spent some time in Africa with the French Cavalry, and eventually returned to Paris and made friends with other artists who, like him, wanted to embark on a new artistic method that would focus on color and light, and paintings that reflected the wonderful nature of the world as experienced by the painter. Monet liked to paint in the open air, and the style of Impressionism was born as a movement with his 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise.Monet married twice: his first…...
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Heinrich Campendonk's "Bucolic Landscape" exemplifies the genre of German expressionism. The playful panoply of colors on canvas, and the composition that borders on, but does not quite reach, the chaotic, engages the viewer. Every space of Campendonk's canvas is consumed in some way by shape, color, texture, and line. Although "Bucolic Landscape" is representational, it borders on the abstract. The viewer finds at least one human figure, and many animal and plant forms. These naturalistic images are rendered in deconstructive, cubist style and they integrate seamlessly with their environment. Thus, Campendonk suggests that his subject of a bucolic German landscape connotes the deep connection between the human being and the natural world. Campendonk is, however, keenly aware of the urban encroachment on pastoral peace. The scene is by no means bucolic, in spite of there being farm animals and wild ones as well. Loud colors and frantic lines signal rapid…...
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Train in the Countryside" (c. 1872) by Claude Monet and "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte" (1884) by G. Seurat
In their artworks, "Train in the Countryside" (c. 1872) and "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte" (1884), Claude Monet and Georges Seurat, respectively, present two very different views of life in the 19th century. To identify these differences and the techniques and motifs that are offered to the viewer, this paper analyzes these paintings and reviews the relevant literature, followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning these two paintings in the conclusion.
How the painting by Claude Monet "Train in the Countryside" is presented and what techniques and motifs it offers to the viewer
As shown in Figure 1 below, the trail of smoke left by the locomotive describes a Golden Section arc that is appealing to the eye even if viewers do not…...
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Austrum, D. C. (1998, October). Thursday and Friday afternoons on the bank of Tiffany Creek: A re-creation of Seurat's 'La Grande Jatte.' School Arts, 98(2), 38-41.
Floyd, J. (2009, Winter). Art of making art. The Sondheim Review, 16(2), 11-13.
Monet. (2015). Claude Monet 'Train in the Countrside.' Musee d'Orsay. Retrieved from http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/train-in-the-countryside-18879.html?cHash=323d65af36 .
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The black in the male cafe patrons' suits, renders an aura of sophistication. The combination of white and black grabs the eye and creates a sense of movement that corresponds with the lively dancing.
Painted only 12 years later, Van Gogh's "Night Cafe" conveys a completely different cafe ambiance. Whereas Renoir's cafe is full of life and light, Van Gogh's is strikingly lonely, occupied by a few sullen drunks with their heads on their tables and the central figure who stands next to a billiards table. Van Gogh uses muddy hues to parallel the theme of the painting. Renoir's black and white affair conveys a bourgeois ambiance, and Van Gogh's ruddy earth tones clearly impart a working class sensibility. Moreover, Van Gogh's cafe uses indoor lighting, which is less inspirational than the uplifting feeling from the open-air "Le Moulin de la Galette." Correspondingly, Van Gogh uses yellow for lights rather…...
mlaAlso a landscape scene painted in France, Derain's 1906 "The Turning Road" has a far different feel than Monet's "The River." Like Monet, Derain relies on earthy tones to emphasize nature. However, Derain's palate is more saturated. The hues allow the painting to approach expressionism, especially the predominance of red-orange on the canvas. Using violet periodically such as on the lower part of the tree trunks also makes the painting seem more abstract than Monet's.
In "Le Moulin de la Galette," Renoir creates a remarkably light feeling with his palate. Using white liberally to convey visual light but also emotional lightness, Renoir balances his impressionist masterpiece with black. The black in the male cafe patrons' suits, renders an aura of sophistication. The combination of white and black grabs the eye and creates a sense of movement that corresponds with the lively dancing.
Painted only 12 years later, Van Gogh's "Night Cafe" conveys a completely different cafe ambiance. Whereas Renoir's cafe is full of life and light, Van Gogh's is strikingly lonely, occupied by a few sullen drunks with their heads on their tables and the central figure who stands next to a billiards table. Van Gogh uses muddy hues to parallel the theme of the painting. Renoir's black and white affair conveys a bourgeois ambiance, and Van Gogh's ruddy earth tones clearly impart a working class sensibility. Moreover, Van Gogh's cafe uses indoor lighting, which is less inspirational than the uplifting feeling from the open-air "Le Moulin de la Galette." Correspondingly, Van Gogh uses yellow for lights rather than the pure white of Renoir.
The painter's choice of a pictorial vantage point creates the apparent symmetry of the bridge and the woven flower garlands. The point of the painting is not that such symmetry literally exists in nature, but that in the impression of the painter, such symmetry was evident to his eyes, at a particular moment in time and in his life.
This painting would be especially useful to teach young children how to create meaningful pictures out of common, every day images. The teacher could point out to the students that the painting is of Monet's garden, something that he saw everyday, and painted many times. Monet painted many paintings water lilies, but every picture was different, because the French artist brought a different perspective to the work of art, during different times of his life.
Asking students to name different everyday things that look different at different times of the year, or…...
Color Me Three
The use of color by artists depends on both personal predilections as well as environmental and social circumstances. This paper will use the works from three well-known artists to illustrate the assumption that the use of color and the style of each artist is combination of these various factors. An important issue that will be dealt with is the artistic climate and the predominant view on art and art theory at the time. Another important aspect is the artist's personal creative aims and views as they relate to color and art in general.
The use of color is part of the artist's creative process and forms an important part of the works of the following three artists: Claude Monet, Pierre onnard and Paul Signac. Specific woks by these artists will be referred to in this discussion.
Color, while not the only element that constitutes their works is an extremely important…...
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Pissarro took a special interest in his attempts at painting, emphasizing that he should 'look for the nature that suits your temperament', and in 1876 Gauguin had a landscape in the style of Pissarro accepted at the Salon. In the meantime Pissarro had introduced him to Cezanne, for whose works he conceived a great respect-so much so that the older man began to fear that he would steal his 'sensations'. All three worked together for some time at Pontoise, where Pissarro and Gauguin drew pencil sketches of each other (Cabinet des Dessins, Louvre).
Gauguin settled for a while in ouen, painting every day after the bank he worked at closed.
Ultimately, he returned to Paris, painting in Pont-Aven, a well-known resort for artists.
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Le Christ Jaune (the Yellow Christ) (Pioch, 2002) Still Life with Three Puppies 1888 (Pioch, 2002)
In "Sunny side down; Van Gogh and Gauguin," Martin Gayford (2006) asserts differences…...
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Monet started his creative activity being young by making scratches and cartoons for a local frame-maker. He took classes of art from Eugene Budent, who taught him lessons of work on open air. Later he goes to Paris and enters the circle of Paris painters. Because he had no financial support he enters French army and after military service he continues painting with Pierre-Auguste enoir, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Frederic Bazille who were experimenting and searching for a new style different from official canons of art.
Technique developed by Monet and other impressionists was unique and innovative. Monet realized that a painting which was made on the open air, has a unique freshness and liveliness, which is unable to be achieved when working in the workshop, where artist plans the painting beforehand. Monet advised artists to rebuild the impression of image perception substituting routine objects by some naive and…...
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Art Memo
We are a company at the head of the fashion industry. Our image is crucial to our success. The appearance, the environment, the overall decor, and the ambiance of our office space is what sends the first messages to our clients. If we expect consumers to value their appearance, then it is up to us to be role models for fashion sense and sensibility.
Therefore, I propose the installation of six major works of art in our corporate office space. Each of these six works of art is carefully selected because it reflects the vibe and mission of our company. The colors, the tone, and the style of the artwork matches our corporate vision. In this memorandum, I will list and describe the six works of art, telling you why these pieces reflect our image.
Camille Pissarro's "Apple Tree at Eragny"
This richly textured painting conveys a sense of peace instantly. I…...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011). Impressionism: Art and Modernity. Retrieved online: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm
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Western Art and Christianity
During the past millennium, Western art has been heavily influenced by Christianity. Art is an extension of the many complex thoughts and images that swim within an artist's mind. Because many Western artists have traditionally been raised in a Christian environment, it is difficult for their religious beliefs to be fully separated from their artwork, and oftentimes it is embraced in the works, or a patron has requested it be the specific subject matter. Although this heavy Christian influence would see a swift departure during the Renaissance, it would remain engrained in Western culture until the present day.
The Reformation heralded a swift separation between Christians in Europe, as Roman Catholics and Protestants divided roughly along a North to South split. Protestants seemed to dominate the North while the South remained dominated by Catholic countries. While much of the art in Protestant countries retained a secular subject matter…...
Unforgettable Attractions and Activities for an Atlanta Adventure
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