biographical notes
1840-Born in Paris, France. He moved out of Paris at the age of five and lived with his family in Le Havre. 1850s—— Inspired by painting, he returned to his birthplace in Paris on 1859 to formally study painting. 1860s-After my military service in Algeria, I made friends with quite a few famous painters and sketched and painted all over France. 1870s—— After getting married and having children, it expanded the scope of travel and the source of inspiration for painting. From 65438 to 0870, it was an important decade when he began to popularize Impressionism. During this decade, Impressionism held four joint art exhibitions. Monet was there, too 1879 is a sad year for Monet. His wife Camier died, leaving a second son 1 year old and a first son1year old. 1880s—— Monet's last exhibition of impressionism was in 1882. 1884, I began to travel around the world and have been to London, the United States and other places. 1890s-Monet began to concentrate on and continue to create with water lilies as the theme,1900s-Monet's eyesight began to have problems, but he continued to draw, and he continued to draw water lilies, drawing bigger and bigger. 1910s-Monet suffered the death of his second wife in1910/year and the death of his eldest son in 19 14 year, and his vision deteriorated rapidly. Ironically, Monet was a successful painter at this time, and his works began to be collected by the state. He had the money to build a large studio. He began to paint large water lily murals. 1920s-Monet continued to write in his later years. In the meantime, his focus is the upcoming exhibition of his water lily works in the Louvre. Although his eyesight became worse and worse, he was almost blind, and he painted until he died on February 5, 2006/kloc-0.
representative works
Impression Sunrise Impression Sunrise Notre Dame de Rouen series RouenNotre-Dame series water lily life introduction Monet is one of the founders of Impressionism and the most influential figure in Impressionism. Among the representative impressionist painters, only Monet devoted his creative enthusiasm to impressionist techniques with a long life of 86 years. Other impressionist painters are short-term explorers. Like Manet, a painter who was regarded as the leader and founder of Impressionism although he did not attend the Eighth Exhibition of Impressionism, Renoir, who was good at painting characters, was engaged in the exploration of Impressionism in the early and late stages of his artistic life, and in the middle of more than ten years, his enthusiasm turned to classicism. During the period of 1874- 1886, eight impressionist art exhibitions were held in Paris, and pissarro participated in each exhibition. He once said: "My life is completely in line with Impressionism." Monet didn't attend the exhibition for the fifth, sixth and last time. Because the works in these three exhibitions are contrary to the original creative techniques. In order to stick to his beliefs, Monet refused to participate in the exhibition to show his resistance. This is his consistent adherence to the impressionist creed, and it is also one of the reasons why Monet has the greatest influence in impressionism. Monet can often tap its charm from ordinary scenery. He observes the scenery carefully and is very sensitive to the change of light. He can draw more than a dozen works in the same scene. Such as "Ancient Heap" and "Water Lily". This is just to show the different faces of the same scene in different weather and light, which is difficult for other painters to do. Monet, like a hermit, sometimes has a strong sense of loneliness. On the one hand, because of his personality, he is taciturn and likes to think; On the other hand, because he is a pioneer of Impressionism, when he has to struggle alone, he naturally feels lonely and lonely.
Editorial appreciation of this work
The estuary of the Seine River in Onfeller
This painting was exhibited in the official salon of 1865 and was warmly welcomed. When the critics commented on the painting, they said, "The hue constitutes a harmonious color ... which quite attracts the audience's sense of boldness." This shows that the official can fully understand that people like this painting very much. Oil painting shows rich midtones and that dim and calm color scale. The deep space has been successfully treated through the river bank line, which traditionally marks the long-term view. In this painting, for Monet's own things, it is the "bold feeling that can attract the audience" expressed by the brush strokes of foreground water and clouds; These strokes enhance the traditional effect of the picture. Water lilies. waterscape
Sunrise impression
Monet wrote the famous Impression Sunrise. This oil painting depicts watching the sunrise through the mist in Afar Port. The painting strokes that directly poke the main points depict the unclear background in the morning fog, and various colors give the water infinite brilliance, but the inaccurate painting method makes those boats faintly visible. It truly depicts the visual impression of light and color on the painter at sunrise in the French port city. Sunrise impression
Because it broke through the shackles of traditional painting, a critic borrowed the name of this painting and mocked a group of young painters represented by Monet who demanded innovation and creation as "impressionism", hence the name of this painting school. This painting was exhibited in the 1 th Impressionist Artists Exhibition, which opened on March 25th, 874. This painting is the most typical of Monet's paintings.
Saint-Germain outlaw tile church
This painting is of greater significance to the development of his painting style in the future. He painted this picture on the balcony of the Louvre. This painting is to show the reflection on the leaves. Side-by-side strokes vividly show the vibration of the air, and the combination of these strokes achieves the vivid effect of green, yellow, green and black shadows. The pen method here is freehand brushwork, but the color is not transparent enough, and even the blue shadow is turbid; They are painted black. Compared with the trembling leaves, churches and houses are too dense. There is no overall image in the painting, but the painting of leaves reveals a little Monet's color ideal to us. Poplar trees on the Upt river.
Portrait "Woman in Green-Kamei Instrument"
This portrait caused controversy, but on the whole it was successful; Some people even compare it with MANET's portrait. This portrait fully shows Monet's personality: his indifference to modeling, the momentum of this woman and the trembling light on her skirt give the whole painting special persuasion; This creates a sense of motivation and vividness. The pictures here are basically arranged according to a photo, which shows that Monet doesn't mind letting the composition obey the contingency of natural scenery. Photos should have reminded Monet of the far-reaching influence of space, but Monet didn't mind. But this oil painting lacks tonal effect: light and shadow fall on the same plane occupied by the characters, so the light cannot penetrate the human body and become a tangible entity. The inherent color of large films has played an excessive role. All these together are more a formula than the real expression you see, but this formula is an unprecedented bold plan. Once the formulation of this program disappears, the light will penetrate into the alto, life will penetrate into every stroke, and the overall unity will be formed. At that time, art will become colorful and impressionism will be fully mature. St. lazarus Railway Station
St. Lacher Railway Station
Everyone who studies the development of Monet's creative activities will find that if the initial fate contributed to Monet's development trend, then he later created his own destiny. Monet became the founder of Impressionism and was recognized by friends as the "head of the school" because of Monet's unshakable strong will. As we all know, impressionism means a change in the way of feeling and observation. It changed not only painting, but also sculpture, music and literature. Even today, it has not lost its influence and is still changing us. 1877 painted "Saint Lachal Railway Station" is a picture of Paris Railway Station, which is an actual "impression" of a daily life scene. Monet was fascinated by the effect of light passing through the glass ceiling to steam clouds, and the shape of locomotives and carriages emerging from chaos. Monet thinks that the magical effect of light and air is the most important. He skillfully balanced the tone and color of the picture. This painting shows strength, space, contrast and movement well.
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Visual observation is undoubtedly a creative genius. He is good at finding a phenomenon that has never been found before from the relationship between light and color. He focused all his attention on light and color, and found the most suitable form to express the brightness difference between light and color. He abstracted the brightness difference between light and color from various other factors in painting and raised it to an unattainable height. Monet's visual observation is gifted, creative and extraordinary, but what is behind this observation? What does what he saw have to do with what he felt and imagined? During the period of 1874-78, some of Monet's paintings in Tey and Aginte can answer these questions. Such as 1872' s "Agintei Sailing Boat". In this painting, the intermediate tone replaces the color contrast, but not by mixing colors, but by forming a comprehensive effect of light with color decomposition or combination. Black no longer appears in the painter's palette, but only creates bright and dark spectral colors, forming a three-dimensional shape. The unified color style naturally permeates the whole picture: distant view and close view, objects, water and sky, which transform all these into a wonderful and moving scene, and a seamless and non-hierarchical spatial perspective connects this distant view and close view into a whole. The shades of purple and yellow are interwoven with the blue of the river and the sky. The tonal differences of these colors clearly distinguish these natural phenomena, and the mirror-calm river seems to be the foundation of the sky. The perspective of geometry is forgotten; Instead, the air is constantly moving. Each color looks soft individually, but their whole is strong; What appeared in front of us were the fireworks on the horizon and the picture of the day disappearing. A sailboat quietly stopped in the gray half shadow. This is the intuition of a visionary. In this smoky, sunset and melancholy atmosphere, Monet seems to be the life of light and directly participates in its gradual disappearance. This is the harvest period of Monet's creation, and he created the legend of color.
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Judging from the emergence and development of impressionism, the founder must belong to MANET, but he truly realized the ideas and techniques of impressionism in an all-round way and consistently pushed MANET. It is Impressionism that he devoted his whole life to the western painting world, and the unremitting efforts of a group of artists led by him, which broke through the conservative thoughts of the previous academic school and greatly impacted the official art that dominated the western painting world in the second half of the19th century, thus making an important contribution to turning a new page in the history of modern western painting. Left a valuable artistic wealth for future generations. It should be said that Monet was the first successful impressionist painter. Although the later artistic schools such as Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism did not follow some principles established by Impressionism, the artists who founded these schools all drew nutrition from Impressionism. It is also necessary to mention the impressionist ideas and techniques, which were originally put forward based on realistic observation. However, because they are keen on describing light and color, and even mystifying them, there is a tendency to ignore real images. Monet once said: in painting, you should forget what kind of object is in front of you, and only think of a small blue square, a small pink rectangle and a hint of yellow. Therefore, the painter's attention in his creation is not focused on the scenery to be expressed, but on the effects produced by the spatial environment, light, smoke and airflow around the scenery, or only limited to expressing the instantaneous impression left by the lighting of the scenery under certain conditions. Therefore, it may lead to grasping only subtle changes and losing the grasp of the overall situation; It only reflects the subtle color levels, but ignores the consequences and overall situation of the scenery.