Claude Monet
1841-1895
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
French Impressionist Painter
Her Style Was Influenced by the following Painters -Eugène Delacroix, Manet, Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Sisley.
Education - Suisse Academy, 1859, Paris France
Cause of Death - Lung Cancer
Mental Health - attempted to commit suicide in
"Monet is just an eye - but God, what an eye!" -- Paul Cezanne
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About The Painter
Claude Monet felt that life should be recorded in a vibrant modern style. He preferred the landscape, and water in particular, seascapes, the Seine River, and later his garden pond at Giverny. He sought to capture the overall impression of a scene through effects created by using light and color in diverse ways. Monet liked to work outside, observing nature directly and record fleeting atmospheric effects with his brush. Claude Monet believed that light was inseparable from the object it illuminated, so to capture the light at a precise moment, he worked from direct observation. Monet executed this emotional style with bold strokes and graceful applications of color. He explored in his art a new world of passion and vibrancy, but with a expressiveness and profound understanding of color.
In the early part of his career Claude Monet became infamous for his art - at the time Impressionism was loathed by most critics and public alike, as outrageous and unseemly and revolutionary.
Claude Monet Art Quotations
Everyone discusses my art and pretends
to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply
necessary to love. -- Claude Monet Quote
One day Boudin said to me, "Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea,
the light, the blue sky." I took his advice. -- Claude Monet Quote
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary
to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. -- Claude Monet Quote
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its
appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere
brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For
me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their
true value. -- Claude Monet Quote
The Principal Impressionist Painters
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