Monet Paintings and Famous Quotes
Claude Monet is one of the founder members of Impressionist art and also plays vital role in keeping Paris’ standing as art city of the world. Monet paintings are loved by many art-lovers, and even canvas paintings of Monet’s artworks are also very popular in home decor. Born in Paris and grew up in Le Havre, the son of a grocer. Contact with Eugène Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. Monet was in Paris in 1859 where he entered the Charles Gieyre studio three years later. In Paris he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. Edouard Manet was an influence on his figure compositions of the 1860s, while the informal style of his later landscape paintings originated in works such as ‘Bathers at La Grenouillère’, painted in 1869 when Monet worked with Renoir at Bougival.
Monet liked to paint local scenes in his impressional style while he was travel around Europe. In fact, he spend most of his time in his beloved garden in france which also a perfect venue for his paintings. Impressionist paintings often requires painting during a small window of opportunity during the day, where lighting and whether are exactly as required. By setting up this beautiful garden in Giverny, Monet was more flexible with his opportunities to paint, and also had perfect control over his subjects, be it his Japanese-style bridge or the water lilies and other flowers that adorned his garden.
In Monet’s early career, he landed his reputation and style. Some of his great works from the 1860s to 1880s include Le déjeuner sur l’herbe, Poppies Blooming, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, Woman with a Parasol & Rue Montorgueil. Monet then went on to create some his best known series of works, with series of Haystacks, Poplars, and some set in Venice and London following. His most famous sets of artworks were to follow upon the construction of his garden in Giverny, where Water Lilies, Nympheas & his Japanese bridge were portrayed in his most famous set of art works, even surpassing his earlier Impression, Sunrise which had given this new art movement, of which he was so important, its very name.
Claude Monet Quotes:
+ My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
+ I can only draw what I see.
+ Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens.
+ Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
+ It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them
+ I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
+ It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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