Born November 14 1840 Died December 5 1926 Country Artist was from France Family amp Childhood Monets father Adolphe was a grocer and worked for the familys shipping business His mother Louise took care of their family and was also a singer and popular hostess ID: 782795
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Slide1
Introduction
Artist Name: Claude Monet
Born: November 14,
1840
Died: December 5, 1926
Country Artist was from: France
Slide2Family & Childhood
Monet’s father, Adolphe, was a grocer and worked for the family’s shipping business. His mother, Louise, took care of their family and was also a singer and popular hostess.
At the age of five, he moved with his family to Le Havre, a seaside town in Normandy. There, he grew up with his older brother, Leon. The ocean and coastline of the area had an insightful effect on him. He did not like being confined in a classroom and enjoyed being outdoors so he would usually go out for walks along beaches and cliffs.
Monet developed a love of drawing at an early age. In his free time, he drew sketches and caricatures of people, including his teachers and towns’ residents, and sold the pieces for 20 francs each.
His mother supported his artistic abilities, but his father wanted him to go into business.
Monet suffered immensely after his mother died in 1857. At the age of sixteen, he left school and started living with his aunt.
Slide3More Family Info
Personal life:
Monet met Camille
Doncieux
in Paris. Camille worked as a model and served as a muse for him, posing for numerous paintings.
Camille became pregnant with their first son, Jean, who was born in 1867. The couple struggled financially and lived in poverty. Monet’s father was unwilling to provide any help. As a result from the situation, Monet felt so miserable that he attempted to commit suicide by trying to drown himself in the Seine River.
Fortunately, things started to work out when Louis-Joachim
Guadibert
became a patron of Monet’s work. This allowed Monet to continue working and care for his family.
Personality:
Monet is sensitive, perceptive, and slightly shy. He is peaceful through nature, and works well and understands his surroundings. He is aware of his inner strength and uses it to find courage to lead difficult times towards his goals.
Monet likes music and poetry. He also has healing capabilities in such fields as massage, acupuncture, and physical therapy.
Education background
Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of arts. He received drawing lessons from Jacques Orchard. He met Eugene Boudin, a local landscape painter known for his scenes of northern French towns. He also introduced Monet to
en
plein
air
, or painting outdoors, which opened a new way of creating art to him and later became the foundation of his work.
In 1859, he decided to move to Paris to study and pursue art. He enrolled at the
Ecole
des Beaux-Arts, and attended as a student at the
Academie
Suisse. There, he met fellow artist Camille Pissarro.
He went to the studio of Swiss artist Charles
Gleyre
and studied with him along with other artists and future Impressionists -
Auguste
Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic
Bazille
.
Monet’s “final education of the eye,” was given by Dutch artist Johann
Jongkind
, who supported and advised him and was an important influence.
Slide5Movement
Impressionism/Impressionist Movement – a type of art in which the artist captures their perception or impression of a scene by using unique colors, observing the effect of light and atmosphere on the image, and focusing more on natural form than sharp details
During his career, Monet experimented with the qualities of light, color, atmosphere, and decorative paint surface. He also painted the same subject matter repeatedly during different times of the day.
Monet created different kinds of artwork including caricatures, marine paintings, landscape paintings, outdoor scenes, portraits, series paintings, and modernization of city life.
Slide6Influence & Inspiration
People who influenced Monet: -
Eugene
Boudin
, Johann
Jongkind
, Charles
Gleyre
What inspired him to create: subjects in his surrounding, Nature, places, passion for art
Monet significantly inspired the fellow artists he worked with which included Renoir,
Bazille
, and Sisley. He also inspired other artists like Degas and Pissarro.
Monet affected culture with the Impressionist movement. The movement’s style of art was very different from the traditional art that was already established during the time. It shifted the emphasis in the images and received some opposition and critical praise from others.
Struggles & Successes
People did like Monet’s art. As a young person, he sold caricatures in his town and people bought them. His paintings were also featured in art shows.Monet did have close friends who encouraged him.
He was famous during his time. His art was chosen in exhibitions and his sense of art was special. His painting “Impression,
Sunsrise
” gave rise to the name of this movement.
Slide8Facts about his art and life
Monet was known to suffer from depression and self-doubt. He lived in poverty throughout his life but occasionally got financial success. He developed a cataract in his eye which made is difficult to paint and see color. Despite this condition, he continued working on his series of paintings which is among his famous works until his final years.
He traveled a lot around Europe to get inspiration from places and the environment.
He sometimes got angry with his work. Some reports say the he destroyed a number of paintings - estimating up to 500 works. He would basically burn, cut, or kick the piece.
Slide9Accomplishments & Quotes
Paintings, Series of paintings (Ex: Water Lilies, Rouen Cathedral…)Being an important leader of the Impressionist movement and the most dedicated of all the Impressionists
Helped changed the world of painting by breaking down conventions of the past
“My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions of the most fleeting effects.”
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Slide10Death & Conclusion
Died in December 5, 1926 Developed a cataract in one eyeLived an extraordinary life and his huge artistic output formed his figure.Impressionism continues to be reproduced and can be seen in calendars, postcards, and posters.
His efforts and experiments is present in most major artistic movements.
Slide11#1
Title: Impression, Sunrise
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location:
Musèe
Marmottan
Monet
Slide12#2
Title: Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
Medium: Oil paint
Location:
Kunsthalle
Bremen
Slide13#3
Title: Women in the Garden
Medium: Oil painting
Location:
Musèe
d’Orsay
Slide14#4
Title:
Bain à la
Grenouillère
Medium: Oil paint
Location: New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Slide15#5
Title: Beach in
Pourville
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: National Museum, Poznan, Poland
Slide16#6
Title: The Magpie
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location:
Musèe
d’Orsay
Slide17#7
Title:
Poppy Fields near Argenteuil
Medium: Oil paint
Location: New York, Rancho Mirage
Slide18#8
Title: The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903
Medium: Oil painting
Location: National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.
Slide19#9
(Favorite work of art)
Title: Water Lilies
Medium: Oil paint
Location: Art Institute of Chicago Building
(Reason for liking this piece of art: It’s part of the Water Lilies series and it looks very nice.)
Slide20#10
Title:
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)
Medium: Oil paint
Location:
New York (since 1915), Newport (1895–1915), Paris (
1895–1895)