Impressionalism Claude Monet

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Impressionalism Claude Monet

• Lydia Barnes
• Michelle Richards
• Melissa Sattler

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Impressionalism

• Artists used to do landscapes, portraits, and
  still lifes inside
• But then they became interested in the effects of
  light and started painting outside

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Impressionalism

• Focused on effects rather than detail (from the
  previous realism movement)
• Played with light, bright and vivid color, and
  movement, to create paintings focusing on the
  whole image, rather than the small details making
  it up (There were no small details).

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Technique

• Very heavy, thick, noticeable brush strokes did
  not try to hide them
• Colors were all separated within the brush
  strokes, no blending or mixing (the eye creates
  this effect from far away)
• Similar to a paint by number painting, where
  the small pieces of color come together to make a
  whole picture that appears detailed

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Technique

• Usually did not use black paint, but a
  combination of complimentary colors (pairs of
  opposite hues) to produce grays and shadows
• Tried to mimic reflection of light on other colors

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Example Le dejeuner sur lherbe
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Example Camille Monet on her deathbed
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Subject

• Instead of focusing on one main subject that is
  the center of attention, impressionism had more
  than one subject going on with no emphasis on
  focus.
• It tried to mimic photography in this way.
  candidness capturing the moment

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Claude Monet

• On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le
  Havre secondary school of the arts. He first
  became known locally for his charcoal
  caricatures.
• When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre,
  he witnessed painters copying from the old
  masters. Monet, having brought his paints and
  other tools with him, would instead go and sit by
  a window and paint what he saw.
• After the death of Camille(his wife), Monet
  (resolving never to be mired in poverty again)
  began in earnest to create some of his best
  paintings of the 19th century. During the early
  1880's Monet painted several groups of landscapes
  and seascapes in what he considered to be
  campaigns to document the French countryside.
• He later produced several series' of paintings
  including Rouen Cathedral, Poplars, the House of
  Parliament, Mornings on the Seine, and the Water
  Lilies that were painted on his property at
  Giverny.Monet was exceptionally fond of painting
  controlled nature his own gardens in Giverny,
  with its water lilies, pond, and bridge. He also
  painted up and down the banks of the Seine.

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Water Lilies

• Claude Monet, Water Lilies, c. 19140-17, oil on
  canvas. Size 65 3/8 x 56 inches (166.1 x 142.2
  cm).
• In the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of
  San Francisco.Monet is perhaps the most famous of
  the Impressionists, especially for his paintings
  of the reflections in the lily pond at his
  Giverny gardens.

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Influences

• Camille Pissarro
• Paris
• Paul Cezanne
• Le Lac DAnnecy
• Pierre Auguste Renoir
• The Seine at Asnieres

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Inspiration

• Surrounding countryside of Giverny and his own
  gardens
• Gardens, flowers, landscape, water, the home

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Political Era

• 1861 - 1865, The Civil War
• 1870 - Franco Prussian War
• In June 1870, Monet married Camille Doncieux, his
  second wife
• 1897 - The Dreyfus Affair
• 1914 - WWI
• 1945 - WWII ends

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Cultural Era

• Nabis, Art Nouveau and Neo-Impressionism would
  soon make way as Matisse, Fauvism, and Pablo
  Picasso arrived in Paris.
• Pablo Picasso with Georges Braque, invented
  Cubism - a mixture of Cézanne, primitivism,
  modernism and abstraction
• Modernism in painting and sculpture began to
  catch hold.
• All of its complexities, tribulations, and
  inventions of the twentieth century were about to
  begin.

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Conclusion

• Claude Monet
• His works, his techniques, his life left a major
  imprint during his time era and has continued on
  throughout the years that he carries the title as
  The Impressionalist par Excellence