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| Oscar-Claude Monet |
Tina Picotes is in New York City. She's going to spend some days in this incredible city and today she's visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tina is a great fan of Claude Monet and The Impressionist Painters and she's going to enjoy the pictures explaining them to us.
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840-5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.
More information: The Metropolitan Museum of New York
Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property, and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works.
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| Camille Monet on a Garden Bench, 1873 |
In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
The first Impressionist exhibition was held in 1874 at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris, from 15 April to 15 May. The primary purpose of the participants was not so much to promote a new style, but to free themselves from the constraints of the Salon de Paris. The exhibition, open to anyone prepared to pay 60 francs, gave artists the opportunity to show their work without the interference of a jury.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
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