Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
Nationality: French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Claude Monet was born in Paris, but raised on the Normandy coast. He began his art career as a caricaturist. In 1858, painter, Eugene Boudin, introduced a young Monet to landscape. One of Monet’s paintings, Impression: Sunrise, supplied the Impressionists with the name for their new movement. In 1873, Monet set up a floating studio on the Seine and began to paint landscapes in the Impressionist style. In the early years of the movement from 1874 to 1886, their exhibitions received much criticism. Yet as he grew in popularity, Monet’s work began to sell in the 1880's, making him the first Impressionist to develop an international reputation extending all the way to the United States. Monet held his position as one of France’s premiere artists until the development of Cubism. In 1899, he began a series at his home in Giverny, painting his Japanese-inspired gardens, specifically planted as subject matter for Monet’s paintings. He painted at Giverny until his death, making the famous paintings, Water lilies Monet’s final major series. Monet's family lived in LeHavre near the sea in Northern France where he developed his lifelong direction to painting out-of-doors scenes. In the 1870s Monet and Renoir created the broken color technique of classic impressions: realizing an image of light and atmosphere. Monet wanted to make the operation of painting visible. He found delight in the reflections of water, sea breezes, the light of the sun, the pleasures of the countryside, and the value of the present moment. The term - Impressionism - came into existence when a hostile critic had looked at one of his paintings in 1874 entitled -Impression: Sunrise -. Monet had adopted Manet's concept of painting and applied it to exterior landscapes. His paintings are flooded with sunlight, they are Impressionistic in its shimmering, luminous colors. In the 1880s, the members of the original Impressionist group began to drift apart and Monet became the only artist of that period who stayed faithful to the Impressionist view of nature. About 1890, he began to paint pictures in series, showing the same subject under various conditions of light and atmosphere. He bought a house at Giverney and began to cultivate a water-lily garden. For the next 40 years he worked on pictures of his water garden. By 1900 he was quite affluent and exhibited regularly.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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National Academy of Professional Plein air Painters: Atelier Monet: Summer Workshop 2001 in La Roche-Guyon (Paris)
La Roche Guyon is located 65 km west of Paris and 5 kilometres from Giverny. You will be staying in one of two Chambre d'hotes Normande in Giverny. Each of the five rooms has its own shower. The Impressionists were the painters of ligh...
National Gallery of Australia: Monet and Japan
The works of art that have been assembled for Monet & Japan are truly remarkable, and the ...
Speed Art Museum: Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Along with Mary Cassatt, Morisot was the most well-known and successful female Impressionist painter and one of the most important woman artists of the nineteenth century. She was the first woman to join the artistic circle of the Impressionists...
National Gallery of Canada: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The Impressionists' profound influence on French landscape painting is examined as the exhibition concludes with a look at works by other artists in th...
En Plein Air: Monet 2000 Excursion
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Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
UPTOWN Cafe: Show Me The Monet: A Celebration of the Life and Art of CLAUDE MONET, 1840-1926
Lunch & dinner creations from Monets cooking journals will be produced by The UPTOWNs chef staff. Slide shows will accompany some ban...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
Today, its population of 4,000 predominantly survive on tourism and fishing. The natural ...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
Musee d'Orsay: The Colours of the Sea
The Musée d'Orsay organises an exhibition entitled The Colours of the Sea with Thalassa, le magazine de la mer, a weekly television programme with a maritime theme on
National Academy ofProfessional Plein air Painters: Summer Workshops 2000
There will be 7 full days entirely devoted to painting with the medium of your choice. La Roche-Guyon with its castle and white chalk cliff hanging above the Seine River ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The exhibition opens with an early landscape by Claude Monet, Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur, placed within the context of the Realist landscape style ...
National Museum of Fine Arts: Impressionism and the North
There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and artists in the Nordic region. The exhibition shows paintings done by Paul Gauguin during his time in Copenhagen in the mid-1800s. In that same period, Danish artist Theodor Philipsen w...
National Gallery: Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Nationalgalerie was designed to provide a showcase for contemporary German art. To...
National Gallery of Art: The Impressionists at Argenteuil
The dazzling, lyrical paintings that make up this exhibition reflect the richness of the impressionists' responses to the Argenteuil site and the complex dialogue that developed among them as they studied...
Bergen Art Museum: Visions of Nature from Le Petit Palais in Paris
The exhibition will take the visitor on a journey through some of the most outstanding pieces of European landscape painting from the seventeenth through the beginning of the twentieth century. The viewer will have an unique opportunity to take a...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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Everson Musuem of Art: Still Life Paintings from the Collection
Lie’s painting did not engender the same puzzlement or derision as did some of the works shown at the Armory by his more experimental colleagues (Duchamp’s Nude Descendi...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition is currently being presented at the Royal Academy of Art in London, England, before concluding with its visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition has received critical accolades in each of its previous engagements. ...
Musee d'Orsay: Theo van Gogh : art-dealer, collector, Vincent's brother
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Museum of Modern Art: ModernStarts: Places
Landscape painting between 1880 and 1920 ranged from idealized and allegorical depictions of nature, as seen in the ...
Van Gogh Museum: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1869-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themse...
L.A. County Museum of Art: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art

A major part of LACMA's mission is to bring great art to our region, said Graham W. J. Beal, the museum's director. We are delighted to share a special selection of the National Gallery’s renowned French paintings with the people of Los Angeles....
National Gallery: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themselves, dir...
Cincinnati Art Museum: European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
This exhibition, which make its world premiere at the CAM, will travel the United States while the
Denver Art Museum: Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums
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Monet Gallery
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Fondation Claude Monet à Giverny
Claude Monet
MMM : Musée Marmottan Monet
Claude MONETs works - posters and prints
Claude Monet - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW

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