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Claude Monet: Artists
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By 1859 Monet was determined to pursue an artistic career. He visited Paris and was impressed by the paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Charles Daubigny, and Camille Corot. Against his parents' wishes, Monet decided to stay in Paris. He worked at the free Académie Suisse, where he met Pissarro, and he frequented the Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for Gustave Courbet and other realists who constituted the vanguard of French painting in the 1850s.
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Monet painted directly on the canvas. This was not the way most artists painted. Usually they made practice drawings first. Monet believed in capturing the scene immediately, before the light had a chance to change.
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Monet was born in Paris, studied for one year at the Académie Suisse in Paris and completed a year’s military service in Algeria. He painted directly from nature and used quick brush stokes to record overall effect rather than detail. He and fellow artist, Renoir, did not use black or brown to describe shadows but instead contrasts of juxtapositioned colors.
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In 1874, Monet organized the very first Impressionism Show, which featured the works of greats such as Cézanne, Renoir, Pissaro, Sisley, and his mentor Eugène Boudin, just a few of over thirty artists showing at Nadar’s Studio. At first, the critics weren't too kind towards the artists' work, which went against the status quo of the art world, but subsequent shows, and continuing public success soon had them change their verdict to a favorable one.
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Working outside, Monet painted simple landscapes and scenes of contemporary middle-class society, and he began to have some success at official exhibitions. As his style developed... Monet violated one traditional artistic convention after another in the interest of direct artistic expression. His experiments in rendering outdoor sunlight with a direct, sketch-like application of bright color became more and more daring, and he seemed to cut himself off from the possibility of a successful career as a conventional painter supported by the art establishment.
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Wildenstein, one of the world's foremost experts on Monet, wrote the Catalogue Raisonne on Monet's life work. Here, he covers the pinnacle of Monet's achievement, the lily pad paintings and other works from the artist's garden. This was the final chapter of Monet's career, and includes some of his most impressive creations.
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