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Claude Monet, Impressionist > 
During the 1860s Monet was associated with Douard Manet, and with other aspiring French painters destined to form the Impressionist school notably Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Douard Manet and Edgar Degas.
In 1874 Monet and his colleagues decided to appeal directly to the public by organizing their own exhibition. The press derisively labeled them "Impressionists" because their work seemed sketchy and unfinished (like a first impression) and because one of Monet's paintings at the exhibition bore the title Impression: Sunrise (1872, Musée Marmottan, Paris). Monet's compositions from this time were extremely loosely structured, and the colour was applied in strong, distinct strokes as if no reworking of the pigment had been attempted. This technique was calculated to suggest that the artist had indeed captured a spontaneous impression of nature. During the 1870s and 1880s Monet gradually refined this technique, and he made many trips to scenic areas of France, especially the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, to study the most brilliant effects of light and colour possible.
By the mid-1880s Monet, generally regarded as the leader of the Impressionist school, had achieved significant recognition and financial security. Despite the boldness of his colour and the extreme simplicity of his compositions, he was recognized as a master of meticulous observation, an artist who sacrificed neither the true complexities of nature nor the intensity of his own feelings. In 1890 he was able to purchase some property in the village of Giverny, not far from Paris, and there he began to construct a water garden (now open to the public)?a lily pond arched with a Japanese bridge and overhung with willows and clumps of bamboo. Paintings of the pond and the water lilies occupied him for the remainder of his life.
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More on this Website >
• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/
• Artinthepicture.com: Claude Monet • Edit
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Edouard Manet, Impressionist
French painter and printmaker who in his own work accomplished the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism. Manet broke new ground in choosing su... |
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Nympheas, Monet
Nymphéas, effet du soir", Claude Monet, 1897, Musée Marmottan, Paris.
"It took me time to understand my waterlilies... I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew... |
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