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Monet Claude: (1840-1926)

a French painter, was a leader of the impressionist movement.
 

Impressionist

He influenced art by trying to paint his personal, spontaneous response to outdoor scenes or events. Earlier artists had also painted outdoor studies rapidly, almost in shorthand. But they used such studies as "notes" for more elaborate pictures painted in the studio

Light and atmosphere

Monet was the most important of the artists who first allowed their initial impressions of outdoor scenes to stand as complete works. Monet was especially concerned with the effect of outdoor light and atmosphere. This concern can be seen in his Old St. Lazare Station, Paris (1877), and his La Grenouillère (1869).
 

Sunrise

Monet was born in Paris. In 1874, he exhibited a landscape called Impression: Sunrise (1872) in a show. He patchily textured work caused one critic to sceptically call the entire show impressionist, which gave the movement its name.
 

Sunlight

Monet's fascination with light led him to paint several series of pictures showing the effect of sunlight on a subject. For example, he painted views of a cathedral or of a haystack under changing atmospheric conditions and at different hours of the day.

Giverny

In 1883, Monet settled in Giverny, near Vernon. There, at his country home, he painted garden scenes and a series of mural-sized pictures of water lilies. The swirling colours of the lilies influenced later abstract painters.

Water Lilies

Monet's Water Lilies was one of a series the artist painted near the end of his life, when he was almost blind. The emphasis on light and colour gives the picture an almost abstract quality.

Monet's works of art

§ "The Women in the Garden" tela del 1866;

§ "La colazione in giardino" olio su tela del 1872;

§ "I papaveri" olio su tela del 1873;

§ "La stazione di St-Lazare" olio su tela del 1877;

§ "Donna con ombrellino" olio su tela del 1886;  

§ "Rouen Cathedral" con effetto di luce mattutina, primo sole, in pieno sole, tempo grigio olio su tela del 1894;

§ "Impression, soleil levant" olio su tela del 1872 esposto al Musée Marmottan;

§ "Ninfee" olio su tela del 1906 esposto presso il  The Art Institute of Chicago.

§ "Camille" o "la donna col vestito verde" del 1866 ed esposto nel Kunsthalle di Brema.

§ "Colazione sull'erba" del 1866 esposto nel Museo Puskin di Mosca.

§ "La Grenouillère" del 1869 nel Metropolitan Museum di New York.

§ "Vétheuil sur Seine" olio su tela del 1880 esposto presso la Galleria: Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin.

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