Monet Impressionist Painter

Oscar claude monet 1840 1926 oscar claude monet 1840 1926 is a famous french painter and one of the founders of the impressionism movement along with his friends renoir sisley and bazille.

Monet impressionist painter. Claude monet in full oscar claude monet born november 14 1840 paris france died december 5 1926 giverny french painter who was the initiator leader and unswerving advocate of the impressionist style. 14 november 1840 5 december 1926 was a french painter a founder of french impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement s philosophy of expressing one s perceptions before nature especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. Later in paris he met and was influenced by future impressionist colleagues sisley renoir and others. But several works were accepted for exhibition in the yearly salons most notably and with great success a fine but not yet impressionist portrait of his future wife camille.

He was a leading figure in the impressionists first group exhibition in 1874 which one. Claude monet s impression sunrise musée marmottan monet paris exhibited in 1874 gave the impressionist movement its name when the critic louis leroy accused it of being a sketch or impression not a finished painting. ˈ m ɒ n eɪ us. The term impressionism is derived from the title of his painting.

Having already painted in paris le havre chailly honfleur. Monet s life during the 1860s was precarious and itinerant and he sold almost nothing. Claude monet the impressionist man and an artist of nature. M oʊ ˈ n eɪ french.

In his mature works monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted. Impression sunrise is a painting produced by claude monet in 1872. Claude monet 1840 1926 grew up in le havre france where an aunt first financed his painting studies. Impressionism is a 19th century art movement characterized by relatively small thin yet visible brush strokes open composition emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities often accentuating the effects of the passage of time ordinary subject matter inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience and unusual visual angles.

It demonstrates the techniques many of the independent artists adopted. 14 november 1840 5 december 1926 was a founder of french impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement s philosophy of expressing one s perceptions before nature especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. Claude monet claude monet first impressionist paintings. Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself.

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