CLAUDE MONET

SHORT BIOGRAPHY
 Claude Monet
 French Painter
 Movement: Impressionism
 Born: November 14, 1840 - Paris,
France
 Died: December 5, 1926 - Giverny,
France
 SYNOPSIS
Claude Monet was the leader of the
French Impressionist movement, literally giving the
movement its name. As an inspirational talent and
personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents
together. Interested in painting in the open air and
capturing natural light, Monet would later bring the
technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his
series paintings, in which his observations of the same
subject, viewed at various times of the day, were
captured in numerous sequences of paintings. Masterful
as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere,
his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of
abstraction, and this has recommended him to
subsequent generations of abstract painters.
 QUOTES
 "For me, a landscape does not exist in its
own right, since its appearance changes at
every moment; but the surrounding
atmosphere brings it to life - the light and
the air which vary continually. For me, it is
only the surrounding atmosphere which
gives subjects their true value."
 "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to
understand, as if it were necessary to
understand, when it is simply necessary to love."
 THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTS

One of Monet's most

popular figure
paintings, Lady with a
Parasol showcases the
women's accessory.
The parasol itself
makes many
appearances in his
work, primarily
because when painting
from real life outdoors,
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet most women would
and Her Son (1875) use one to protect
their skin and eyes.
 Claude Monet painted The
Studio Boat in 1874. Shortly
after Monet moved to
Argenteuil, he bought a
boat and converted it into
a floating studio. He kept it
moored near his home
and used it to get a vista
of the riverbank from the
water. As seen here, he
also painted it from the
bank to study the effects
The Studio Boat of shadow and reflection
at a distance.
 Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

MOVEMENTS
Symbolism

Pointillism

Fauvism
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Frédéric Bazille

FRIENDS
Charles Baudelaire

Alfred Sisley

Émile Zola