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Claude Monet

French painter and founder of Impressionism, precursor to modernism.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism, born 14 November 1840 in Paris.[1][2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise, exhibited in 1874.[1] Monet is considered a major forerunner of modernism, largely because of his efforts to depict nature according to his own perception.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Oscar-Claude Monet
Born
14 November 1840
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
5 December 1926
Place of death
Giverny, France
Field
Painting
Movement
Impressionism
Years active
1865–1926

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

After contracting typhoid fever in 1862, his aunt paid 3,025 francs to discharge him from the army.[3] He returned to Paris in December 1862 and enrolled in Charles Gleyre's studio, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Frédéric Bazille.[4] He began painting the water lilies in 1899, a subject that occupied him for the next 20 years.[5] At age 15, Monet began producing caricatures for money, having entered Le Havre's secondary school of the arts on 1 April 1851.[6]

Eugène Boudin, whom Monet encountered around 1858, instructed him in painting outdoors ("en plein air") and was regarded by Monet as his teacher.[6] Monet reached Paris in April 1859 and went straight to the Salon, which had recently opened.[7]

What the cited sources add

A 2006 Guardian article reports that scientists analyzed Monet's London series to determine where and when he stood while painting.[8] The Wildenstein Plattner Institute account states that Monet's Riviera paintings were rarely exhibited together because his dealer Durand-Ruel pawned them after the 1882 market crash.[9] That account also records that a critic compared Monet's "Red Road near Menton" to an alley of cherry-red jam.[9] Gustave Geoffroy praised a Riviera painting for showing "the blue sea and white houses of a city sleeping in the heat".[9]

According to the same article, Monet's subsequent London trip was cut short by pleurisy, confining him to his hotel room for three weeks.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Auricchio, "Claude Monet (1840–1926)", Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004; House, "Monet: The Last Impressionist?", Monet in the 20th Century, 1998, p. 2 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tucker, "Claude Monet: Life and Art" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wildenstein, "Monet ou le Triomphe de l'Impressionnisme", Taschen, 1996 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lobstein, "Monet", Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2002; Wildenstein, "Monet ou le Triomphe de l'Impressionnisme", Taschen, 1996; Isaacson, "Monet, (Oscar-)Claude", Oxford Art Online, 2003; Tinterow, "Origins of Impressionism", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994; Januszczak, "Techniques of the Great Masters of Art", The Quarto Group, 1985; Levine, "Monet's Series: Repetition, Obsession", October, 1986, p. 65–75; Tinterow, "Origins of Impressionism", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994; Weidemann, "50 Modern Artists You Should Know", Prestel Publis en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: House, "Monet's 'Gladioli'", Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2003, p. 8–17; "Water Lilies 1919", metmuseum.org; Isaacson, "Monet, (Oscar-)Claude", Oxford Art Online, 2003 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Arnold, "Claude Monet", H Books, 2005, p. 3; Fourny-Dargère, "Monet", Konecky and Konecky, 1992, p. 30; Fourny-Dargère, "Monet", Konecky and Konecky, 1992, p. 30; "Monet, Claude", Oxford Art Online, 31 October 2011; Greenberg, "The Face of Impressionism in 1870: Claude Monet's 'Camille on the Beach at Trouville'", Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 2001, p. 66–73; Levine, "Monet's Series: Repetition, Obsession", October, 1986, p. 65–75; Isaacson, "Monet, (Oscar-)Claude", Oxford Art Online, 2003; Greenberg, "The Face of Impressionism in en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Claude Monet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lobstein, "Monet", Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Randerson, "Hospital view. Experts decipher where Monet was standing", The Guardian, 9 August 2006. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  9. Langlais, "The reception of the Riviera paintings", wpi.art The Wildenstein Plattner Institute. facts only, no text reused. wpi.art

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