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Monet, Claude (1840-1926)

Creator details

Name
Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
Nationality
French
Biography
He was a successful caricaturist in his native Le Havre, but after studying plein-air landscape painting, he moved to Paris in 1859. He soon met future Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir and Monet began painting outdoors together in the late 1860s, laying the foundations of Impressionism. In 1874, with Pissarro and Edgar Degas, Monet helped organize the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc., the formal name of the Impressionists' group. During the 1870s Monet developed his charateristic technique for rendering atmospheric outdoor light, using broken, rhythmic brushwork. Throughout his career, he remained loyal to the Impressionists' early goal of capturing the transitory effects of nature through direct observation. In 1890 he began creating paintings in series, depicting the same subject under various conditions and at different times of the day. His late pictures, made when he was half-blind, are shimmering pools of color almost totally devoid of form.
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Assets (1308 in total)

Waterlilies, 1916-19 (oil on canvas)
Impression, Sunrise, 1872 (oil on canvas)
A Pathway in Monet's Garden, Giverny, 1902 (oil on canvas)
The Artist's Garden at Giverny, 1900 (oil on canvas)
Waterlilies, Evening, 1897 (oil on canvas)
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875 (oil on canvas)
The Magpie, 1869 (oil on canvas)
Tulip Fields with the Rijnsburg Windmill, 1886 (oil on canvas)
The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil, 1880 (oil on canvas)
Olive Trees in the Moreno Garden, 1884 (oil on canvas)
Nympheas at Giverny, 1908 (oil on canvas)
A Corner of the Garden at Montgeron, 1876-7 (oil on canvas)
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