CLAUDE MONET paintings

Le Dejeuner	San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk	Blue Waterlilies	The Studio Boat	Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge	Woman with a Parasol
Tulip fields with Windmill	Regatta at Argenteuil	Claude Monet working on his Boat	Artists Garden at Vetheuil	Arrival at St Lazare Station	Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden
La Grenouillere

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Claude Monet

November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926

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Biography

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a French Impressionist painter. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. Monet was born to Adolphe and Louise-Justine Monet, he was christened as Oscar-Claude at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. His father wanted him to go into the family (grocery store) business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer.

Monet undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825). On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857, he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet en plein air (outdoor) techniques for painting.

When Monet travelled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, in 1862 Monet joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

From 1871 to 1878 Monet lived at Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris, and here were painted some of his best known works. Monet was exceptionally fond of painting controlled nature: his own garden in Giverny, with its water lilies, pond and bridge. Cataracts formed on Monet's eyes, for which he underwent two surgeries in 1923. It is interesting to note that the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims. It may also be that after surgery he was able to see certain ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are normally excluded by the lens of the eye; this may have had an effect on the colors he perceived. After his operations he even repainted some of these paintings.

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