Monet’s performance declined when he retired, although he worked with great financial success on several panels for the French government from 1914 to 1918 and would later create works for the state. In October the weather forced Monet to stop painting open air and sold four of eleven paintings with water lilies the next month despite the fact that he did not want to give up his work at the time.
The group organized its first exhibition at Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs in 1873 in the spring of 1874, showing the works of 30 artists. The term “Impressionism” comes from his painting “Impression”, “soleil Levant” (“Impression, Sunrise”), exhibited in 1874.
Claude Monet was a renowned French painter whose work gave the name to the Impressionist art movement that concentrated on capturing light and natural forms. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultedly christened Monet’s painting style “Impression” as he was more interested in form and light than realism and the term stood.
Monet lived in Giverny from 1883, also in northern France where he bought a house and property and began an extensive landscape project including a water lily pond. His quest to document the French countryside led to the creation of a method of repeatedly painting the same scene to capture changing light and changing seasons. Among the most famous examples are his series of haystacks (1890-91) and the paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverny, which
During his youth he tried to capture the visual effects of light and time, paint quickly and directly on the street – or street painting – which later became the cornerstone of Monet’s work.
One of the art critics who reviewed the exhibition in 1872 used the term “Impressionism” as a joke after watching “The Rise of Impressionism” and presented similar works in the exhibition, claiming that the paintings were amateur and unfinished in almost every sense.
He would have liked to take the food business as a child but it was his soul the profession of an artist and entered Le Havre High School for the Arts at the age of 11 for his cartoons which he drew for local residents at a cost of 10 to twenty francs. Five years later he meets the artist Evgeny Buldin who teaches him the technique of drawing “in the open air” and becomes his mentor.
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) – well known French painter and founder of the Impressionist movement, who is seen as a key precursor to modernism in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Claude Monet is one of the most beloved works of impressionism.
Claude Monet’s influence on other artists was vast, from his contemporary neighbors like Vincent van Gogh to a new generation of diverse artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. Visitor American artists adopted his fresh palette, plots and spontaneous style and eventually brought these elements into American art. He did not try to reproduce the scene as it was examined in detail, but rather tried to restore an impression that gave him a relaxed and instantaneous idea of the scene.
Similar to earlier depictions of Monet’s rivers, fields and beaches, the painting focuses on an aspect of the natural world he carefully studied, known for its thick leaves, thin stems and bell-shaped flowers in purple, blue and white… The canvas was taller than the artist himself, which gave testimony to his growing ambitions.
