Claude Oscar Monet - Oil Painting Reproductions

Brief Introduction of Claude Oscar Monet

Claude Monet (1840-1926), born in Paris, is a famous French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement. In 1856, he met his mentor and began to learn techniques of oil paintings. In 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris. In there, he met Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley. They three shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken colour and rapid brushstrokes. This later came to be known as Impressionism. He completed a lot of his great oil paintings about his own garden and pond after getting prosperous in 1890, such as Water Lilies.

Painting Style

Monet has been described as "the driving force behind Impressionism". Crucial to the art of the Impressionist painters was the understanding of the effects of light on the local colour of objects, and the effects of the juxtaposition of colors with each other. His long career as a painter was spent in the pursuit of this aim. Monet’s oil paintings set the stage for a sweeping change in French art. Monet worked with real-world imagery and made great efforts to represent the impression of the images instead of the reality. Simple scenes of haystacks or trees are painted with broad, sweeping brushstrokes that create mood rather than realism. His style of oil paintings creates a feeling of the scene instead of simply reproducing. Water Lily Pond is one of Monet’s more realistic oil paintings. The forms and objects are recognizable and the stylistic approach to color and texture strengthens to the recognizable scene.

The Most Famous Oil Paintings

Water Lilies; The Walk, Woman with a Parasol; The Japanese Bridge at Giverny; The Bridge in Monet's Garden; Impression, Sunrise; San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

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