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Claude Monet
Questions and answers about Claude Monet, a protagonist of Impressionism.
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Monet stated that the greatest influences on his art career were paintings from John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. These two artists paintings can be found on in museums around London.
What is Claude Monet's most famous painting?
There are many candidates, perhaps one of the many pictures he painted of his water lilies. Or the one that gave the movement its name:
Impression, Sunrise.
Which statement best describes French Impressionist painter Claude Monet's approach to painting?
Monet used the camera obscura as a sketch tool, to record landscape compositions.
What did Claude Monet draw with?
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Most of Calude Monet's medium was oil paint. He used to paint on a canvass.
What paint did Monet use for his paintings of water lilies?
He made hundreds of water lilies paintings, in all colors and shades.
What type of work did Claude Monet perform?
Claude Monet was one of the leading French Impressionist painters. He helped bring to the forefront of painting a new style that at first was not the norm. Impressionism, however, soon began to find a strong following Monet was born in 1840 in France and died in 1926.
How many wives did Claude Monet have?
Monet was a fickle individual and although his many "wives" were documented to the the public. His memoirs told of only one, his mistress whom he devoted his life around. Micolette was her name and later change it to Serena for obvious reasons.
In what year did Claude Monet become an artist?
Monet became interested in oil painting so someone taut him by Boudin in 1856/57. In 1862 he was a pupil of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met a few of his future impressionist friends, like Renoir, Bazille and Sisley.
After being impressed by Manet's Luncheon on the grass, (Dejeuner sur l'Herbe) in 1863. Claude Monet, then sumbitted his own Dejeuner sur l'Herbe Painting in 1865 withhis friends posing for him. It said to be 20 foot wide. The Salon des Refuses exhibited in the same year.
On April 1, 1851, Claude Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He had also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, who is a former student of Jacques-Louis David. His other influence are some of his friends such as Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints.
Monet himself in his quotes on his teachers Boudin and Troyon:
One day Boudin (who inspired Monet very young already to start painting, fh) said to me,""…appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky". I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.
* artist quotations from "Discovering Art, - The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET"; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 10 (art quotes, Monet)
…learn to draw: that's where most of you (his pupils, fh) are falling down today… …draw with all your might; you can never learn to much. However, don't neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them…" (Monet is quoting here Troyon, famous Barbizon painter and Monet's teacher in Paris, fh)
* artist quotations from his letter to the painter Boudin, 1859; as quoted in "Discovering Art, - The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET"; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 11 (art quotes, Monet)
What travels did Claude Monet make as an artist?
Apart from various places in the north of France he visited London and the Netherlands.
Where was Claude Monet trained to paint in Le Havre?
Monet painted outdoors under the guidance of Jongkind and Boudin from 1858 to 1859.
What does the Picture of water lilies by Monet look like?
He painted lots of those. Click link below to see three of them!
What size canvas did Monet paint?
Impression, Sunrise of 1872, is 48x63cm.
The Luncheon of 1868, 230x150 cm.
And all sizes in between.
What is the date of Claude Monet's birth and death?
Claude Monet was born 14th November 1840 in Paris, France. He died of old age on 5th December 1926 at the age of 86 in Giverny, France.
Answer 2:
He died of old age, you say, maybe his lung cancer helped.
