Claude Monet

POSTED ON: Wednesday 21 August 2013 @ 10:20 | 0 comments


 Claude Monet

 (1840-1926)

Claude Monet is a French landscape painter. He was the primary inspiration and the leading figure in the growth of impressionism, one of the art movement which has a characteristics including relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Monet’s works itself are uncountable, since he was doing painting in all his life, but there are some of his famous works,  such as The Woman in the Green Dress or La femme à la robe verte (was painted in 1866, brought him recognition and fame), Impression, Sunrise or Impression, Soleil Levant (depicting a Le Havre port landscape and it hung in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874), and Water Lilies (series of approximately 250 oil paintings that depict Monet’s flower garden at Giverny, and were the main focus of Monet’s artistic production during the last thirty years of his life). What I adore from Monet, is that he never satisfied with merely imitating or just following his old masters, he would rather try something new, look out of a window or visit some place in nature and draw what he saw. He has a big passion in art, and never stopped painting, even when he suffered from cataract. Monet boldly captured the essence of natural world using strong colors and bold, short brushstrokes. He were making his own styles, and turning away from the classical painting techniques and styles.


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