Claude Monet and Impressionism

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• Langue: English

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Claude Monet and Impressionism

Claude Monet, French (1840-1926)

Champ d’Avoine (Oat Field),

1890

Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 7/16 inches

Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840. He took drawing

lessons in school and began making and selling caricatures at age seventeen.

Artist Eugene Boudin introduced him to painting

en plein air

or out of doors. The

invention of oil paints in portable tubes enabled artists to paint

en plein air

. The

palette also changed with the introduction of paints made with chemical dyes,

making a wider range of colors available.

In Paris, Monet met painters like Gustave Courbet and Pierre August Renoir. In

1874 he exhibited with the

Société anonyme

, where his painting

Impression:

Sunrise

earned the group the title, “Impressionists,” as critics thought their

paintings were unfinished impressions.

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In 1883, Monet moved to Giverny. There, he began his paintings of the French

countryside, and many of his paintings depict his property at Giverny. In many of

these paintings, one subject was painted several times, so that different effects of

light and atmosphere were shown.

Champ d’Avoine

is one painting in a series of

three. Although in his earlier career, he focused on industrialization, people and

popular leisure spots, he eventually focused on the landscape, emphasizing the

beauty of light and the lushness of nature.