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.
Franco-Prussian War, Impressionism, and Argenteuil
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.
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