Famous paintings and quotes by Claude Monet
Monet paintings are loved by many art-lovers, and even canvas art of Monet’s artworks are also very popular in wall decor. If you know impressionism, I bet you would know Claude Monet.
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. Born in Paris, the son of a grocer, Monet grew up in Le Havre. Contact with Eugène Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. He was in Paris in 1859 and three years later he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, where 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 landscapes originated in works such as ‘Bathers at La Grenouillère’, painted in 1869 when Monet worked with Renoir at Bougival.
Monet liked to travel around Europe for much of his career and paint local scenes in his impressional style. He actually 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 weather 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.
Monet landed his reputation and style in his early career from which he build on in later life. 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.
Popular Claude Monet paintings include "Impression, Sunrise", "La Promenade", "Rouen Cathedral", and "Water Lilies". Field of poppies
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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