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Monet, Claude Oscar
(1840-1926) French painter
Claude Monet lived a long life and during that time managed to become the leader of the new currents in painting. Before becoming famous, he went through poverty, rejection and ridicule. Unfortunately, the artist outlived his fame: he had the opportunity to be a witness to how out of date his ideas, which he remained faithful until the end of life.
Monet was born in Paris, studied in this city and Parisian life is one of the most important themes in the artist's work. Artists C. Baudelaire, Courbet, Zola, Cezanne were his companions and friends.
In 1860, Monet begins to serve his mandatory military service in the company of mountain Rangers, stationed in North Africa. However, two years later he became seriously ill and my parents had to pay him money to free his son from conscription.
Since 1862 comrades in art are P. -A. Renoir, A. Sisley, and FR Bazille. In 1865 and together they showed their paintings at the exhibition, called the First impressionist exhibition. .
Original Monet paintings have caused sharply negative reviews from critics, it was even called crazy. But he stubbornly went to the goal. When he was almost fifty, he was already considered a recognized leader of a new direction -- impressionism.
Monet was the first to develop the technique of painting outdoors — EN plein air. He sometimes several days and weeks spent in the boat or on the Bank of the river, trying to catch the slightest changes of nature in different times of the day. Monet said: "Three smear made from nature, replace two days of work at his easel in the Studio." Fascinated with the changeability of nature, and he created a whole series of sketches, capturing them at the same place in summer, winter, autumn and spring — this is his famous series "Rouen Cathedral", created in the nineties, a series devoted to London's Thames river.
Monet always preferred bright colors, and even the background of the picture was not dark, like, say, old masters, and a colour — for example, blue. The black color on the paintings was excluded because Monet believed that even the shadow is actually painted in some color. Interesting one of his earliest paintings, representing views of the Gare Saint-Lazare with Smoking locomotives.
The main thing for Monet was always the visual perception of the picture, so in his landscapes he sought to convey its state at different times of the day. Covered new subjects as would give him an additional source of inspiration.
He also continued another famous painter, Eduard Manet, plays with light and sought transfer of the vibrations of light and air. Thus, Monet sought to reflect any moment the world around him.
The main genre for the artist was the landscape. Russian lover of painting is known primarily for his painting "Boulevard des Capucines in Paris" (1873), "Rocks at Belle-Ile" (1886), "Field of poppies" (the eighties), stored in the Russian Museum and the Hermitage through the activities of well-known collectors Shchukin and Morozov.
Walk on the Cliff at Pourville (1882) - Monet Oscar Claude.
