He even set up his workshop on a boat so that he could discover various points of view and be as close as possible to the mesmerising waves…. Luckily for our eyes, the way he saw things changed constantly. It fluctuated with the seasons, the light, the time of day… This is why Claude Monet strove to paint the same subject several times; he believed an object was born through light.
His series of paintings include the trains, London and particularly the Parliament, water lilies, hay stacks, the sea, the snow, and many others. Nature is so cruel! Upon his death, his close friend Clemenceau refused to see him covered with a black cloth and replaced it with colourful, flowery curtains…. He clearly dedicated his entire life to painting!
Politics did not interest him, and he often withdrew from his family to paint. He regularly confessed his love for nature and painting in letters to Camille and Alice.
He was the demiurge of the impressionist movement. Before Monet, great painters mainly painted in workshops and sought a completely unrealistic outcome in paintings by depicting subjects individually, as if basing them on statues. Claude Monet, on the other hand, sought to depict lights, shapes, and colours as his eyes perceived them. The year after, Monet met an artist named Eugene Boudin.
Monet went to the Swiss Academy, continuing to devote his life to his art. Monet met a woman named Gaudibert who admired his art. She was one of the first to recognize his artistic abilities. In , while Monet was at an art event in Sainte-Adresse, his first son was born. Monet was 27, and he had to be away much of the time to promote his art. He also suffered from depression. All through his life he had to work hard.
People did not buy his art at the start. He had to move his family many times, but he still painted. After the death of his wife, he moved the family to Poissy. Not many people bought his work and Monet remained poor. So, in Monet moved the family again to a house he rented at Giverny.
He died in at the age of At Giverny he started going to more exhibitions and his work became more popular. He earned more money and was able to buy the house. He fixed up the house to include gardens and a Japanese bridge. His yard became the subject for some of his most famous paintings.
His popularity and fame grew. He still painted, though his eyes got worse. While it was meant to be derogatory, the term seemed fitting. Monet sought to capture the essence of the natural world using strong colors and bold, short brushstrokes; he and his contemporaries were turning away from the blended colors and evenness of classical art.
Monet also brought elements of industry into his landscapes, moving the form forward and making it more contemporary. Monet began to exhibit with the Impressionists after their first show in , and continued into the s.
Monet's personal life was marked by hardship around this time. His wife became ill during her second pregnancy their second son, Michel, was born in , and she continued to deteriorate. Monet painted a portrait of her on her death bed. Before her passing, the Monets went to live with Ernest and Alice Hoschede and their six children. After Camille's death, Monet painted a grim set of paintings known as the Ice Drift series.
He grew closer to Alice, and the two eventually became romantically involved. Ernest spent much of his time in Paris, and he and Alice never divorced. Monet and Alice moved with their respective children in to Giverny, a place that would serve as a source of great inspiration for the artist and prove to be his final home.
After Ernest's death, Monet and Alice married in Monet gained financial and critical success during the late s and s, and started the serial paintings for which he would become well-known. In Giverny, he loved to paint outdoors in the gardens that he helped create there. The water lilies found in the pond had a particular appeal for him, and he painted several series of them throughout the rest of his life; the Japanese-style bridge over the pond became the subject of several works, as well.
In , Monet would donate 12 of his waterlily paintings to the nation of France to celebrate the Armistice. Sometimes Monet traveled to find other sources of inspiration. In the early s, he rented a room across from the Rouen Cathedral, in northwestern France, and painted a series of works focused on the structure. Different paintings showed the building in morning light, midday, gray weather and more; this repetition was a result of Monet's deep fascination with the effects of light.
Besides the cathedral, Monet painted several things repeatedly, trying to convey the sensation of a certain time of day on a landscape or a place. He also focused the changes that light made on the forms of haystacks and poplar trees in two different painting series around this time.
In , Monet traveled to London, where the Thames River captured his artistic attention. In , Monet became depressed after the death of his beloved Alice.
In , he developed cataracts in his right eye. In the art world, Monet was out of step with the avant-garde. The Impressionists were in some ways being supplanted by the Cubist movement, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
But there was still a great deal of interest in Monet's work. During this period, Monet began a final series of 12 waterlily paintings commissioned by the Orangerie des Tuileries, a museum in Paris.
He chose to make them on a very large scale, designed to fill the walls of a special space for the canvases in the museum; he wanted the works to serve as a "haven of peaceful meditation," believing that the images would soothe the "overworked nerves" of visitors. His Orangerie des Tuileries project consumed much of Monet's later years.
In writing to a friend, Monet stated, "These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession for me. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel. Nearly blind, with both of his eyes now seriously affected by cataracts, Monet finally consented to undergo surgery for the ailment in
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