Claude Monet and Impressionism

Part of what created and spawned Impressionism for Claude Monet as well as others, were certain advances in technology; one of the most important being: the Camera. With the discovery of the camera, it was no longer necessary to capture realism or portraits in oil paintings. So the Impressionists artists felt it was time to deviate from Realism. Some of the other influences on Impressionism include the Industrial revolution.

Before Impressionism, paint was carried in animal bladders. During the time of Impressionism, the modern paint tube was invented which allowed artists to travel. Also, during the same time, the train system was developing in France. The train companies would offer free travel to the Impressionists like Claude Monet to show the populous the beauty of the French Landscape they could reach by the new train. Some of the other Impressionists featured on our site are; Degas, Pissaro, Manet. We also have avaliable one of Claude Monet's most beauitful and powerful works, Impression Sunrise.

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Claude Monet and Impressionism Claude Monet, in painting his Impression Sunrise, of 1872, had broken free in shattered the art worked of the past. Laying ground for Modernism to take over. The art world changed forever by this ability to capture the effects of air and light on a canvas. The artist Claude Monet, created works at a great time of change in the world around him. The industrial revolution was quickly changing the face of the world around him as quickly as the paint changing on the canvases of the Impressionists from the Realists in the Rubenesque schools that preceded him. As in Monet and his work, is as important to the changes in art made by any of the masters such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, or even Leonardo Da Vinci. For the first time, since the invention of the camera, painters were not responsible to depict only perfect realism as the subject of their work. Now with the invention of the modern paint tube and the train giving the ability to reach remote gorges, rural locations that Monet and the other masters of the time would capture in the new up and coming movement so aptly named Impressionism for its ability to create and impression. Although from close inspection, the paintings would appear rough and sketchy, as one would step back and viewed from a distance, would capture a realism that even Realism could not capture. With impressionism, the brushstrokes, or dabs of color, given distance, would mix naturally in the human eye as in physics, which is how the human eye actually sees. This distance for viewing, would create the illusion of a perfectly smooth atomospheric sky or sea mixing in the viewer¹s eye and brain as opposed to the pre-mixed harmonious colors mixed on a palette by the realist masters of before. This new form of color division, would show much more movement, life, and vibrancy than the works of the predecessors. Claude Monet¹s work was open to anyone to step into and become a part of the scene emotionally and physically as opposed to just using the intellect. Unlike some of the future modern artists, Monet worked with a rather limited number of motifs, considering his painting career lasted over 60 years. In the way that a subtle nuance in a movie acts as a precursor or metaphor for something about to happen in the plot of a great movie, Claude Monet¹s work, was almost a precursor to the discovery of the Surrealist works depicting the dreamlike states of the subconcious mind captured by artists like Salvador Dali. Monet had grown up a member of the lower-middle class, not far from the area of Montmarte. Montmarte at the time was more rural and was also a major port for British goods. His town of Le Havre would make good money from the trade between Paris and London. His father made good money from this growth in the market business. Because of economic growth caused in part by Napoleon in Waterloo many people in the region had more time to enjoy life. Tourism grew in these coastal regions, and with the extra money, so did the desire for luxury goods like art. Claude Monet¹s learnings as an artist were limited to drawing lessons at Le Havre. Claude Monet¹s early work was of the rural picturesque regions in which he lived. Boudin influenced Monet to paint more of the rural life around him as a plein-air painter. Claude Monet¹s work was not accepted into the Barbizon like some of the realists at the time like Millet and Gustave Corbet. Claude Monet¹s work was not considered in the art world to be finished. The sketchy-like quality which later came to be loved as some of the best art was considered in its time to be nothing more than an impression, so aptly named Impressionism by the critics of the time.   Search: