He painted scenes from his garden – the pond and bridge, flowers, trees and his most famous series of waterlilies. He built a magnificent garden there and spent the rest of his life living there until his death in 1926. In 1890 Claude Monet bought a house and land in Giverny. Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral Series 1892-94 Claude Monet Haystack Series 1890-91 Monet uses orange and white -side by side -and mixes them on the canvas.įrom the 1880’s onwards Monet began to paint in series – he took a subject matter and painted a series of it – over and over, in different lighting and weather conditions.The most famous of these series are his paintings of Rouen Cathedral ( below) and of haystacks ( further below). You can see how thickly Monet has applied the paint in the reflections of the sun on the water. As the title suggests he captures an impression of the scene rather than painting in the exact details. Monet uses mostly blues except for orange which he uses on the sun,an orange tint in the clouds and the orange reflections of the sun in the water. The painting is of the harbour at Le Havre at dawn. One critic – Louis Leroy wrote that all the paintings in the exhibition were ‘Impressions” and the name stuck. The art critics reacted strongly to this painting because it was an “ Impression’ rather than an exact painting of a harbour at sunrise. In 1874, Monet exhibited his painting “Impression Sunrise” (1872) at the first ImpressionistĮxhibition. The effect of light and shade can be seen particularly in pale areas such as the womens’ dresses, the umbrella and on the path. Claude Monet, Women in the Garden 1866-7. The bold brushwork which is always a feature of his work is already there at this early stage in his career. Monet’s concern for the effects of light and shadow is quite visible in this early painting. The painting was so large he had to dig a trench so that the painting could be lowered for him to reach it. “Women in the Garden” 1866/67 was painted ourdoors by the young Monet. It was in Paris that he met other artists such as Renoir and Pissaro who had similar interests in colour, light and brushstokes as him, it was these artists who would go on to form the ”Impressionists”. In 1862, after a spell in the French Army, Monet began to study art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. Ĭlaude Monet was born in Paris but grew up in Le Harvre where he was influenced by the artist Eugéne Boudin who encouraged him to take up Plein Air painting. “ Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment! ”. Monet painted much of his works Plein Air ( outside looking directly at the subject) and was concerned with how the colour of things changed in different weather and atmosphere. Monet is regarded as central to the Impressionist movement in that he followed the philosophy and principles of Impressionism all his career.
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