IMPRESSION SUNRISE BY CLAUDE MONET 1874 SERIES

Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind. Boudin taught Monet 'en plein air' (outdoor) techniques for painting. On the beaches of Normandy around 1856 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. Locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. Monet'.) Despite being baptized Catholic, Monet later became an atheist. On, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians.

IMPRESSION SUNRISE BY CLAUDE MONET 1874 SERIES

In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.Ĭlaude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property, and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. The term 'Impressionism' is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Impression sunrise by claude monet 1874