Claud Monet

Claud Monet

Claud Monet time line: 

Giverny. 2009. Biography of Claude Monet. [ONLINE] Available at: http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/. [Accessed 05 April 13].

1899 Photo by Nadar

Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) founded the french impressionist painting .. called the

"Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Print makers etc" . He became known as the most fundamental practitioner in the philosophy of the movement in terms of expressing ones perception before their natural surroundings mostly in his "plein-air" landscape painting. "plein-air" is a french expression meaning open air painting.

Early Life

Caricature of  Léon Manchon

He studied at Le Havre secondary school of the arts, he started to spread his name by drawing and selling caricatures using charcole. He generally sold them for ten - twenty franks. His former mentor was Jacques-François Ochard

On January 1857 his mother died. He was 16 when he left school, leaving to live wit his aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre

More of his caricatures:

Poul Webb. 2012. Art & Artists. [ONLINE] Available at: http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/12/cluade-monet-caricatures.html. [Accessed 06 April 13].

Paris 

Claude Oscar Monet,
The  Woman In A Green Dress, 1866

Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre. He saw other painters copy the work from their old masters, Monet on the contrary would sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet resided in Paris for several years thus making several friends one of which was  Édouard Manet.

In 1862 he made studied under a new mentor called Charles Gleyre where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. This was a fundamental friendship that influenced and developed the Impressionist movement.

Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La Femme à la Robe Verte) which he painted in 1866 furthered developed his reputation as an artist. The woman in the painting was his future wife Camille Doncieux where she later modled for several other paintings such as The Woman in the Garden and On the Bank of the sea.

Franco-Prussian War, Impressionism, and Argenteuil

In  1872, he painted Impressions, Sunrise which consisted of the la Havre Landscape. It was exhibited in the first exhibition dedicated to impressionism. in 1874. This painting gave the movement its name.

Death

Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86. He wanted it to be simple and only 50 people attended. 

Sources: 

Information:

claudmonetgallery. 2012. Claud Monet. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/Impression--Sunrise.html. [Accessed 06 April 13].