#Claude monet impression sunrise 1872 series#

He and Camille lived in poverty for most of this period. During this time Monet painted various works of modern life. Monet and Camille married on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871. Camille became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean, in 1867. The following year Monet used Camille for his model in Women in the Garden, and On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt in 1868. This painting and a small landscape both were both hung. (It was later cut up, with parts now in different galleries.) Monet submitted instead a painting of Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La femme à la robe verte), one of many works using his future wife, Camille Doncieux as his model. Monet's painting was very large and could not be completed in time. In January 1865 Monet was working on a version of Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, aiming to present it for hanging at the Salon, which had rejected Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe two years earlier. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters, including Édouard Manet and others who would become friends and fellow Impressionists. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed, childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. 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.

#Claude monet impression sunrise 1872 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.