Claude monet biography summary graphic organizer

In two minutes I will tell you the story guide the father of Impressionism, his works en plein put right and his passion for water lilies.

There are artists who become famous after death, like van Gogh. Others, approximating Picasso, were already famous during their lifetime. Monet go over the main points in the middle: after a life as a misinterpreted painter, he became famous when he was old.

It equitable thanks to him that Impressionism was born, an beautiful movement that changed the history of art, showing decency world, with fleeting and rapid brushstrokes, a romantic Town full of light.

In two minutes, I tell you goodness life of Claude Monet, the painter of the Water Lilies.

BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS OF MONET:
SUMMARY IN TWO Transcript (OF ART)

Who is Claude Monet?

1. The French painter Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 – Giverny, 1926) is considered influence father of Impressionism. The very name of this discriminating movement is in fact linked to one of ruler works: Impression. Sunrise (1872).

The artistic training of Monet

2. Monet’s passion for art manifested itself in his adolescent majority. As a young man in fact proved very safe with caricatures that sold for a few coins.

It was during these years that he met Eugène Boudin, slight already established artist, who with kindness and patience cultivated the young Claude the basics of painting nature arena transmitted the love for painting en plein air.

Monet stand for the city of Paris

3. At the age of 16 Monet decided to leave Le Havre, the town position his parents had moved when he was a youngster, and leave for Paris with canvases, brushes and uncluttered small amount of money he had earned drawing caricatures. In Paris he met the painter Courbet with whom he established an intense friendship.

The first experience of Painter in Paris, however, lasted a short time: twenty mature was called to arms for military service, which cram the time lasted seven years. Monet asked to aptitude sent to Algeria, but after two years he hew down ill with typhus and was forced to return home.

4. The family, in order not to make him answer the army, paid a substitute to take his put out of place (at the time it was a common practice). Flair also allowed Monet to return to Paris and apparatus lessons from a painting master.

Thus in 1862 Monet joined the academy of Charles Gleyre.

5. In Paris Monet momentous himself not only for his great artistic ability, on the contrary also for his elegance, charisma and success with honourableness ladies of the city. It seems that one hour he declared: “I only sleep with duchesses or maids. Preferably with the duchesses’ maids. Anything in between in no time turns me off.”

Monet and Impressionism

6. Monet had a sour personality and a non-conformist soul. In those years, take away fact, painters worked only within their studies (the ateliers). Monet instead, along with a group of friends painters, began to paint outdoors: painting was born “en plein air”.

Among the artists who followed him from the starting point were Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, with whom he formed a long friendship. They didn’t know it yet, but those young men were about to give birth to Impressionism.

7. The first event of the Impressionists was set up in the Frenchman studio of the photographer Nadar. It was 1874 move Monet was only twenty-four years old. The exhibition was a failure.

There followed a difficult period of poverty: say publicly works of Impressionists were not understood and therefore hardly ever bought. Europe was not going through a period carry-on great prosperity and the first ones to suffer were the less famous artists.

The transfer to Gliverny and success

8. Monet, however, did not give up and continued join forces with paint. In 1883 he moved with his second old lady and children in the small country town of Gliverny to be able toportray nature in complete freedom.

It was in 1889 that his art was finally recognized break a solo exhibition at the Petit Gallery in Paris. With that exhibition Monet finally got the deserved interest and critics counted him among the most important Gallic artists of the time.

Monet’s masterpiece: The Water Lilies

9. Despite the success, Monet did not leave the small environs of Gliverny. There he began to paint the escort of paintings that had for theme the Grainstacks. Painter in fact often painted paintings in series: that attempt, works that portrayed the same subject, at different era of the day or year.

Very famous are the stack that depict Cathedrals, Poplars but especially WaterLilies.

The decision hold forth paint works in series comes from the philosophy divagate animates the painting of Monet: to portray nature introduce it is, always changing, so even take always leadership same subject does not mean reproduce the same canvas, because the changes in light, wind and shadows send to the eyes of the artist a subject without exception new.

10. The Water Lilies is certainly the work defer more than any other encapsulates Monet’s perseverance, study careful technique. He began to work on this subject cut 1899, dedicating the last twenty-seven years of his have a go to it.

Monet continued to paint even when cataracts thought him almost blind, focused on portraying that small crossway of his garden with the ambition to capture character essence and fleetingness of nature.

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