Claude Monet was an impressionist painter who would later influence the movement of modern art and create one of the most famous paintings Water lilies (Oscar 1). This has been recreated many times by artists all over the world. Claude Monet was born in Paris France on November 14, 1840. In his early life he loved to be outdoors and would always draw in his school books. At the age of five he lived in the Normandy Region with his siblings and later on moved back to Paris after the death of his mother to become an artist; his father wanted him to study business, but he still chose to pursue his dream (Oscar 1). Georges Seurat was part of the Neo-impressionist movement. He was born in Paris France on December 2, 1859; he started to gain interest in art because of his uncle and soon began to take lessons from him. He was enrolled at the famous Ecole de Beaux-Arts Paris. He was fairly interested in work from Monet (Georges 1). They both have their similarities and differences; they both wanted to capture more natural scenery of what everyday life is like. Seurat used a new method called Pointillism, which can be seen in his Sunday afternoon painting (Thomas 162). Monet was mainly known for using brush strokes to show urgency/movement in his paintings. Monet used pastels; they were colors that were better to work with when trying to mimic nature (Oscar 124). Seurat used colors that were undiluted and layered on top of one another. Water…
Monet specialized in the new term called en plein air. This would mean working outdoors instead of the studio to paint. He did an extensive study of the phenomena of light and color which is especially in several series of paintings he made of the same subject. The painting I chose is the Rouen Cathedral.…
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Post-Impressionist painter. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.…
Vincent van Gogh was an artist Ahead of his time creating paintings with interesting brushstroke that no one of his era was familiar with. Van Goph had a unique view of the world and thus had a unique art style. This made van Goph painting undesirable to those living in his active era.…
Impressionism influenced the emergence of Postimpressionism which was similar to its predecessor still being of everyday outdoor scenes and artists expressed themselves freely in the art. (Sporre, 2009) However, artists of this period completely rejected the objective naturalism using color and form in more personal ways expressing a person view of the visual world. (Impressionism, 2000) Post-Impressionist artists deviated from Impressism due to the fact they did not care if the work was a visual experience as Edouard Manet did, they merely expressed themselves through the use of bright colors. One of the more famous artists of this period was Vincent van Gogh who may have been one of the most…
In 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes.…
Claude Oscar Monet was pioneer in the art scene of the 20th century. He invented the painting style impressionism and always followed his dreams. This exhibit is a short impression of his pieces and his passion for art, his wife and the nature.…
Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in a small town near the northern border of France. Trained as a lawyer, while he was in his twenties he abandoned the law in order to paint. His vividly painted works, along with his paper cut-outs, have earned him a prominent place in art history. Matisse developed his own innovative techniques like: contrasting colours, simplifying forms, impasto and scraping. His method produced paintings of pure colours and the white of exposed canvas to create a light-filled atmosphere. Rather than using modelling or shading to lend volume and structure to his pictures, Matisse used contrasting areas of pure, unadjusted colour. He emerged as a Post-Impressionist, and was known as the leader of the French movement Fauvism. Although interested in Cubism, he rejected it, and instead decided to use colour as the foundation for expressive, decorative, and often monumental paintings. Henri Matisse was heavily influenced by art from other cultures and artists. Having seen several exhibitions of Asian art, and having travelled to North Africa, he incorporated some of the decorative qualities of Islamic art, the angularity of African sculpture, and the flatness of Japanese prints into his own style. He also was influenced by Gauguin, Cézanne, and van Gogh. Mentor Camille Pissarro.…
At the age of 33 Van-Gogh went to Paris and he experienced a different point of view of art, he change his idea and became a better artist. He was introduced to impressionism and he…
It is evident that two great impressionistic artists that both influenced each other are Edouard Manet and Claude Monet. Despite the peculiar similarity in their names, they were very good friends, and both learned from each other to improve their art. They were both successful painters who we can all learn from even today.…
Claude Monet was among the leaders of the French Impressionist movement of the 1870s and 1880s. His 1873 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the style its name, and as an inspirational talent and a personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Inspired in the 1860s by the Realists' interest in painting in the open air, Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his so-called series paintings, in which his observations of the same subject, viewed at various times of the day, were captured in numerous sequences of paintings. Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere, his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of abstraction, and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters.…
Born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Holland, Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch-post impressionist painter whose work influenced art a lot in the twentieth century. His father was a pastor, so van Gogh was brought up in a religious matter. As a child, van Gogh was silent, serious and thoughtful; he was also emotional and lacked self-confidence. By the time, van Gogh decided to become an artist, he’d already had two unhappy romances, had worked as a clerk at a bookstore, was an art salesman, and was a preacher in Borinage, Belgium. Van Gogh remained in Belgium after that to study art. During his early Dutch period, van Gogh created several paintings, among which the most famous was “The Potato Eaters.” In 1881, van Gogh proposed to Kee Vos-Stricker, who was not only his cousin, but also several years older. Kee did refuse his proposal, though. Van Gogh was very determined for the marriage between him and Kee, but Kee refused, and so, her father made it very clear to him that van Gogh wouldn’t marry his daughter. Due to the perception of his uncle and his former tutor’s hypocrisy, van Gough lost all of his religious faith. After he refused to go to church, van Gogh and his father argued, which lead to van Gogh’s leaving home to The Hague. At The Hague, van Gogh and his cousin-in-law, Anton Mauve, painted in both oil and watercolor. But soon after, Mauve refused to speak to van Gogh, so they fell out. Van Gogh also had an arrangement with an alcoholic prostitute, named Clasina Maria "Sien" Hoornik, and her younger daughter. Sien later gave birth to a baby boy, Willem, whose father was van Gogh. But later, he abandoned Sien and her children. Van Gogh suffered from gonorrhea for three weeks in the hospital. Van Gogh later went to live with his parents in Nuenen, North Brabant. There, he met Margot Begemann, the two decided to marry, but both families opposed. On March 26, 1885, van Gogh’s father passed away due to a heart attack. That year, van Gogh…
This period covers the 20 years which followed the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886. It is from the 3 dominant figures of this era that the mainstreams of twentieth century art can be traced. Paul Cezanne – evolved a new style of compositional unity through colour, tone and strong geometric volume. This led to CUBISM. Paul Gauguin – impressed by Japanese prints to develop a style that favoured strong use of colour, shape and line. This led to FAUVISM Vincent van Gogh – painted his emotional response to images of man and nature in broad sweeping brushstrokes with a brush loaded with paint. This led to EXPRESSIONISM. Other Post Impressionist painters were Georges Seurat and Paul Signac (POINTILLISM), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau and Pierre Bonnard.…
Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.…
Claude Monet was an artist on the cusp of the Modern era demonstrating his thoughtful mind. He diligently strived to capture nature through the beauty he saw in his subjects. He defined his beauty by capturing the many color shades on his palette. Monet developed his style and form by using subjects he knew best. Focusing on the close observation of his subjects we carefully observed the natural surroundings in detail to make his art more beautiful to the eye.…