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Claude Monet was a pioneering French impressionist painter in the late 19th century. He is known for capturing scenes in nature, such as landscapes and water lilies, through loose brushwork and vibrant blocks of color that represented how light affected the subject. Monet often painted the same scenes, like haystacks or the Rouen Cathedral, at different times of day to showcase variations in light. He was devoted to impressionism's emphasis on visual perception over realistic details and influenced many fellow artists with this new style of painting en plein air.

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Monet

Claude Monet was a pioneering French impressionist painter in the late 19th century. He is known for capturing scenes in nature, such as landscapes and water lilies, through loose brushwork and vibrant blocks of color that represented how light affected the subject. Monet often painted the same scenes, like haystacks or the Rouen Cathedral, at different times of day to showcase variations in light. He was devoted to impressionism's emphasis on visual perception over realistic details and influenced many fellow artists with this new style of painting en plein air.

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Claude Monet fathered the Impressionistic movement in late 19th century

France with his abstract rendering of boaters on a river, titled "Impression,


soleil levant." Monet painted consistently from 1874 until his death in
1926, and was most noted for his use of color and depictions of nature.
His paintings often featured the same subject at different times of day and
ultimately inspired a devoted class of fellow artists and imitators.

Impressionism
The primary characteristic of Monet's work is his commitment to
Impressionism and its basic characteristics, such as a focus on texture,
light and brushstroke. Monet's focus changed from the subject -- such as
a boat, landscape or person -- to the way that paint works on a canvas.
Monet's art seeks to capture what the eye sees and the dynamic change
of landscape depending on perspective and light. This commitment to
Impressionism originally began as a way to free himself from the rigid
constraints of the Salon de Paris, but eventually survived as a signature
style that characterized his lifelong body of work.

Nature
Monet's work primarily focuses on scenes in nature. Even in his early
work, which featured human forms, the natural world received as much
attention as the human figures. His most famous paintings, such as his
haystack series and water lilies, are exclusively depictions of nature.
Monet also had a lifelong interest in water, which he painted in all its
forms, from turbulent rivers to the placid surface of his own lily pond.

Use of Color
Monet's paintings are distinctive in that he did not use the traditional
chiaroscuro method, which creates a three-dimensional effect using
shadow and light. Instead, Monet used unbroken blocks of color in
unexpected ways to create vibrant, but flat landscapes. For Monet and
other impressionists, color was not intrinsic to an object, but instead
determined by the quality of light thrown on it. Monet also avoided
distinctive lines in his painting, instead using dots and patches of color to
indicate forms.

Repeating images
Monet is also well-known for his repeated paintings of the same object at
different times of day, reflecting the changes of color and light. One of his
best-known series is of haystacks in a field, painted throughout a day and
over several days in different qualities of light. Monet also painted series'
of poplar trees and the Rouen Cathedral. Toward the end of his life,
Monet devoted his time completely to painting his own lily pond
throughout the year.
Claude Monet is best known for his work as an impressionist, not only was he able to capture
art in a whole new meaning but he influenced and led the way to a whole new technique. The
impressionist movement was a group of artist who attempted to capture the emotion of their
scene. They would paint their paintings in a non-realistic way, in the beginning Monet and his
companions were ridiculed for such departure but in time were praised. Monet loved painting
outdoors he loved capturing the scene and one of the ways he did so was by painting the same
scene in different times of the day, with this he was able to capture the light of the scene
perfectly.

Camille was Monet’s model for years and she enjoyed it, she would pose for hours at a time
and was very patient. She was such a devoted model she posed for all four of his female
figures in “Women in Garden”.

She was so cooperative that she even posed for Monet’s friends for free; Auguste Renoir
painted Camille several times and had known her as “La Monette”. In 1876 Camille became ill
with what is said to have been cervical cancer; Monet was destroyed by Camille’s declining
health and knew her death was imminent, for a small period of time he even lost his wanting
to paint. In 1879 Camille passed and Monet was devastated but even with his grief he
managed to paint her one last time on her death bed. “I caught myself watching her tragic
forehead,” Monet wrote afterwards to a friend, “almost mechanically observing the sequence
of changing colours that death was imposing on her rigid face. Blue, yellow, grey and so on…
my reflexes compelled me to take unconscious action in spite of myself.” (Rogers)

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