Artist: Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
Nationality:French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting (find the reproductions here! or email to Steven.china@gmail.com get more about this artist painting reproductions informations)
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Biography:
Claude Monet was born in Paris, but raised on the Normandy coast. He began his art career as a caricaturist. In 1858, painter, Eugene Boudin, introduced a young Monet to landscape. One of Monet’s paintings, Impression: Sunrise, supplied the Impressionists with the name for their new movement. In 1873, Monet set up a floating studio on the Seine and began to paint landscapes in the Impressionist style. In the early years of the movement from 1874 to 1886, their exhibitions received much criticism. Yet as he grew in popularity, Monet’s work began to sell in the 1880's, making him the first Impressionist to develop an international reputation extending all the way to the United States. Monet held his position as one of France’s premiere artists until the development of Cubism. In 1899, he began a series at his home in Giverny, painting his Japanese-inspired gardens, specifically planted as subject matter for Monet’s paintings. He painted at Giverny until his death, making the famous paintings, Water lilies Monet’s final major series. Monet's family lived in LeHavre near the sea in Northern France where he developed his lifelong direction to painting out-of-doors scenes. In the 1870s Monet and Renoir created the broken color technique of classic impressions: realizing an image of light and atmosphere. Monet wanted to make the operation of painting visible. He found delight in the reflections of water, sea breezes, the light of the sun, the pleasures of the countryside, and the value of the present moment. The term - Impressionism - came into existence when a hostile critic had looked at one of his paintings in 1874 entitled -Impression: Sunrise -. Monet had adopted Manet's concept of painting and applied it to exterior landscapes. His paintings are flooded with sunlight, they are Impressionistic in its shimmering, luminous colors. In the 1880s, the members of the original Impressionist group began to drift apart and Monet became the only artist of that period who stayed faithful to the Impressionist view of nature. About 1890, he began to paint pictures in series, showing the same subject under various conditions of light and atmosphere. He bought a house at Giverney and began to cultivate a water-lily garden. For the next 40 years he worked on pictures of his water garden. By 1900 he was quite affluent and exhibited regularly.

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