Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Claude Monet (1840 ~ 1926), French painter. One of the founders of Impressionism. The Impressionist movement named by his painting of "Sunrise impression". Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14 1840 years, His father was a grocer, Claude Monet is the eldest son. Shortly after birth, the family moved to the the Mannos first. His comic skills was highly appreciated by the famous landscape painter Eugene Boudin. When Monet was 18 years old, Boudin invited him to go outdoor for sketching. then, The Tube pigment just invented, outdoor sketching is a fresh stuff. Claude Monet Initially disapproval, a while after outdoor painting,he knows the wonders of Nature as Teacher, the outdoor sketching indeed the best job of the landscape painter. When young generation painters come to him to ask for advices, he pointed to the trees and cloud sky said: "They are the teachers, ask to them, take heed of their teachings."

The works of Edouard Manet and William Turner gave him great inspiration. Claude Monet's main purpose of creative is to explore the performance of the nature, record instant sense impressions and full of vitality and movement he saw. Monet Had long effort of exploring the effect of light color and the performance of the air; he had continuous depicting the same object in a different time and light to express the feelings of the moment differnt from the natural light color changes.

Claude Monet is one of the most important painters in France, the Impressionist theory and practice majorly been promoted by him. Monet specializes in experimental and performance techniques of light and shadow. His most important contribution lies in changing the painting shadows and contours, in Monet's paintings, we could not see a very clear shadow, also see less than a highlight or flat coated contour. In addition, Monet use color quite delicate, and he used to experiment with color and light perfect, expression the same themes with a lot of different paintings