Several years ago when I was ten I had an opportunity to travel to France. I went to a few museums which I liked including Yhe Louvre and The Pompidou Center. The museum I found most interesting was Mus’ee D’ Orsay. All the paintings at Mus’ee D’ Orsay were impressionist paintings. Claude Monet was the artist who intrigued me the most. What I liked particularly about his paintings was a lot of them consisted of his wife and his son. My absolute favorite painting was Woman with a Parasol.
There are a few different paintings of his wife with a parasol which look quite similar. Some are by herself and at least one is with her son in the background. That is the one I chose to Claude Monet was born in Giverny, France about fifty miles from Paris on November 14,1840. His family moved to Le’ Havre when he was five. He thought living on the coast was crucial to the development of his visual responses, particularly to the light and atmosphere which so governed his inspiration. (monet pg.7) Monet lived and traveled several places throughout his life. He married his wife Camille in 1870.
He had two sons, Jean and Michel. Camille died in 1879 from tuberculosis(mount pg.309) when Claude was only thirty- seven years old. He did remarry Alice Hoschede’ in 1892 but there is no achknowledgement of Claude painting her in any of his paintings, only his first wife Camille. He was in great agony when she died. Monet is credited with the birth of impressionism.(martini pg.5) Monet says,” I paint as a bird sings.” His painting ‘Impression, Sunrise” of 1872 gave the impressionist movement its Impressionism is described by myself as someone who looks at a scene and then tries to create it in a way to make it look unreal yet extrodinary. The word “impressionism” conjures up a brightly colored, modestly sized picture of a light- filled landscape or cityscape painted with broken brushwork.(Thompson
The Essay on Comparison Of Monet And Claude
Claudes The Sermon on the Mount is a relatively large painting in a horizontal rectangular shape. It is a landscape painting with Jesus giving a sermon to a crowd of his followers as the subject. It states in the acoustic guide that Claude is trying to depict the landscape of Mount Tabor surrounded by the Dead Sea on the right and the Jordan River on the left. The painting is done from a high ...
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