Research Paper On Monet

Monet’s work was inspired by Edouard Manet, an early nineteenth century, pre-impressionist, painter who was an important figure in between impressionism and realism. Manet’s work inspired Monet to fully commit to the idea of impressionist painting. When discussing his paintings and the inspiration behind them, Monet, said “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before youa tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streakof yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you”. This period of Impressionist art was extremely popular in the late nineteenth century.
The idea of painting with the rules of chiaroscuro and tenebrism were completely discarded for a more whimsical portrayal of light. Eventually, Monet became friends with other young artists including Paul Cezánne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. They focused more on the realistic content that involved everyday life, including cities, nature and people in their familiar environment. The unfinished quality is unique to the impressionism era, and the paintings were described as an impression, and the term stuck. The group of painters wanted to show the world as they saw it, or their impression of the world. Monet, specifically, was concerned with capturing light in its natural form. Monet did not desire to idealize nature, he simply wanted to capture the spontaneity of
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, another one of Monet’s more famous pieces is at the MET museum in New York City. The Art Institute of Chicago has several of Monet’s Haystacks on a permanent collection. The largest collection of Monet’s Water Lilies paintings, from his extensive series is located in Paris, France at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The museum displays eight compositions in large oval shaped rooms with immense natural light. Another painting of the church of Varengeville is located across the Atlantic Ocean in the Barber institute of fine arts in Birmingham, England. This painting is very similar in composition and identical in content to the painting housed at the Speed Art Institute. The key difference is the much warmer coloration and the intense lighting coming from behind the church. The painting at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY is tiny in comparisons and muted in color to some of Monet’s later works, but it still encapsulates the main intentions from his overall body of