Monet`s Life in His Paintings

Monet 's Life in His Paintings

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Monet 's Life in His Paintings

Impressionism : Sunrise

Monet 's Life in His Paintings

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Claude Monet , born in Paris in 1840 , is one of the major artists of the Impressionist era . His painting Impression : Sunrise (1873 , which was shown at an independent exhibit in 1874 , helped to coin the name of the movement as Impressionism . Monet the Impressionist with his concern for light and atmosphere here began to seek out powerful emblematic shapes with an inspiration of nature , particularly his

gardens (Tymieniecka 1985 , 278

During this time period in Paris , most artists painted battle scenes or events in history using clear , sharp lines and dark colors . Monet and his friends were more interested in the aesthetic quality of their chosen subjects they painted everyday things like boats and oceans and even haystacks

Monet was particularly interested in landscape painting and in capturing its natural elements by painting outdoors , which was known as plain-air painting . During the 1860s , he became acquainted with other Impressionist artists in Paris and continued to paint landscape themes that contained figures (Libby 2000 , 84 . The painting Sunrise glows with the colors of the sun and the sky , and reflected on the water and the city . Even though most people did not like the way Monet painted , he continued undeterrent . He tried to make the colors and the light and the shadows very real on the everyday scenes he painted . When looking very closely at Monet 's paintings , the many colorful brush strokes seem chaotic and random . Stepping back , the picture becomes clear . Monet often painted the same subject at different times of the day to see how the changing lighting affected the picture

During the 1870s , Monet began to abandon or minimize figures in his landscapes and Paris cityscapes (Libby 2000 , 147 . His paintings continued to capture the freshness of the outdoors and emphasize the effects of light , especially at different times of the day . His brushwork was small and varied as well as soft , free , and loose . He experimented with a range of colors that varied from warm to cool pastels as well as the scale of grays . Monet also Monet 's Life in His Paintings

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varied the tone of his primed canvas - sometimes white , tan , or a light gray - to achieve different color effects of the paint (Everdam 2003 13

Nothing prepares you for the effect of seeing Monet 's Grandes Dicorations for the first time on the walls of the Orangerie in Paris (Russell 1998 , 10 . After you descend the stairs to enter the two elliptical rooms of the vast curving panels of water lily paintings , you fell drawn into a magnetic field created by the hypnotic energy that radiates from them . What overwhelms the audience most in this silent secluded dream world is the suspension of all movement , the evaporation of reality . As if caught in the eternal loop of an hourglass , time becomes timeless . In the vernacular of our modern...