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The Artist Who Inspired Monet and the Artists Inspired by Monet

The time when Salon de Paris was occupied by Romanticism and any other kind of paintings were rarely displayed, then born an artist who revolutionized the classic art. His name was Claude Oscar Monet, father of French impressionism, whose brushstroke influence and revolutionary philosophy of aesthetics is felt even to this day. Most of us know him because of his series of water lilies paintings that consumed 20 productive years of his life. The name impressionism was taken from his impressionism painting Impression, Sunrise. Such a great talent was not just come into being suddenly, and he was also inspired and taught by one of his teachers. And under his teacher's help, Monet laid a solid foundation for his success and then become an inspiration to many talented artists later, too.

The Artist Who Inspired Monet

Supported by his mother, Monet was admitted to Le Havre school of arts. First, he came to be known for his caricatures sold for a mere ten or twenty francs. Around 1856, he met Eugène-Louis Boudin, a forerunner of impressionist art on the beach of Normandy, Boudin today is not well-known to European as well as the American audiences, but this man can be credited as the forefather of impressionism. In the mid-1850s, Monet was making his mark because of his caricatures of renowned artists in Paris. In a period, Boudin spent lots of time painting all this beach activity, and he urged Monet to join at the seaside. Boudin urged him to paint rather than creating caricatures.

Monet being fifteen years younger than Boudin, accepted him as his mentor and learned oil painting as well as "en plein air", landscape painting techniques. Both were influenced by the subjective perception of light as well as Johan Barthold Jongkind. Boudin called him to Honfleur, when at Honfleur, Monet saw a brilliant shine, vibrant blue sky and big clouds that shifted lights intones, he was obsessed with countryside landscapes and light. Under the influence of Boudin, Monet created the first piece of impressionism and to make studies of light as it fell on a cathedral and eventually tangles of water lilies, floating in a pond.

 

The Artists Inspired by Monet

Pierre Auguste Renoir learned from Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he became a friend of Monet. His first success was seen in 1868, but it was not as encouraging. Rejected multiple time from de Saloon jury, he with Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro arranged first independent impressionist exhibition in 1874, where he exhibited his six paintings. He was influenced by Monet’s aesthetic philosophy of subjective perspective of light, en plein air and his technique of diffused reflection. He and Monet used the same technology as well as scene and worked side by side on some paintings, La Grenouillere in 1869 and Monet’s portrait by Renoir in 1875 where techniques of both impressionist masters seem to be submerging.

Paul Cezanne, best known for his most expensive painting of all time The Cards Players was a contemporary of Monet who was influenced by Monet in certain ways but developed his technique and style. Cezanne inspired by Monet’s art of subjective perception developed his style of post-impressionism. Cezanne’s repetitive brushstroke, use of bright colors and representation of nature by simple and more geometric objects gave birth to cubism, influenced German expressionism and Russian Avant-Garde. Monet and Cezanne had the same style of seeing scenes, that is subjective perception developed by Monet, but Cezanne developed his technique of representing landscapes and nature. His use of geometric and simple shapes, as well as bright colors and wild brushstrokes, developed gave birth to post-impressionism, but his way of seeing objects remained the same as of Monet though his technique differed that can be seen in his Le Chateau Noir, The Montagne Sanite-Victoire, 1887 and Pot of Primroses and Fruit.

The Card Players

 

Claude Monet can be regarded as the father of modern art because he was the first one who revolted against the tradition of classical art such as neoclassicism and romanticism. His subjective perception gave birth to a trend of trying something new that was the foundation of modern art and 20th-century art movements like avant-garde, expressionism, cubism and abstract art. Subjective revolt against tradition was the most significant contribution of Monet that opened the doors of innovation and novelty for modern art.

 

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