Claude Monet was the founding artist of impressionist painting in France. He was the most decisive professional of the philosophical movement on the expression of people’s perception before nature. Monet used painting to achieve his ambition to document the French campaign. He painted the same scene differently to bring the image of seasonal variations and the change of lights. Monet’s residence was in Giverny from 1883 where he bought a residential place and began his great project of water lilies ponds that would be the best areas of his famous works.
Personal Life
Claude Monet was born in 1840 as the second son of his family. His parents gave him the name of Oscar after his baptism on May 20, 1841. However, he became an atheist despite his baptism. After moving to Le Havre in 1845, his father wanted him to run the family’s grocery business and become a charlatan, but he insisted on becoming an artist. His mother has given him support in his artistic career since he was a singer.
Claude undertook his drawing lessons at the secondary school in Le Havre where he enrolled in April 1, 1851. Monet began to paint everything he saw from a window after visiting the Louvre and discovered that other painters did their arts using old masters as reference objects. He remained in Paris for many years and was able to make friends with other young painters who also became his fellow Impressionists. Monet painted several works of modern life during the Franco-Prussian war, despite the fact that he lived in poverty with his family.
The most famous works of Claude Monet
One of Monet’s most famous works of art is the Rouen cathedral series which he painted during the period 1892-1893. The series is a capture of the façade of the Rouen cathedral in France that shows the changing light conditions at different times of the day and the year. Monet used the clipping of the subject so that the canvas could only show a section of the facade.
Another Claude Monet art was Impression, Sunrise which he designed in 1872. He is famous for being a traditional symbol of Impressionism. The subject of the art is the port of Le Havre which the painting suggests through its soft brushstrokes. Monet captured the reality of the scene using color as the main factor. It is interesting to note that, by making a black and white copy of the painting, the sun disappeared almost completely.
Last but not least is the art of water lilies painted in the period 1896-1926. Monte has painted the series of water lilies with about 250 oil paintings that are currently exhibited in museums around the world. The complexity of the light and the color of the water lilies give the viewer the impression of the incredible diversity of nature and the mystery of life that it supports.
Style and technique of Claude Monet
Monet used the style of Impressionism created by color and light to the first image. Moreover, in this style, epic tales and human figures were on the back while the moon or the sun were bathed by objects with different types of light.
