Claude Mon Biography

Home »History of art» Life and creativity in Claude Monet's quotes in the quotes of Claude Claude Monet History History of Charing Cross Bridg Claude Oscar Monet is the first artist of impressionism, which imprinted not objects and phenomena, but that our little eternity lives with us is impressions. He was born in Paris in the year, contrary to his parents, he became not a merchant, but an artist-revolutionary.

His revolution is the victory of light and color over the outlines, the victory of love over the rational. Today, Monet is in the top three of the most expensive artists of the world. And some of his canvases, as a cult “impression. Sunrise of the Sun ”, the Paris Museum of Marmottan-Mone, art historians do not even undertake to evaluate. Monet created a new painting technique - fractional strokes.

He created the garden - the main canvas in his life, on which not with strokes, but with flowers and trees, he portrayed the beautiful. Claude Oscar Monet was a rare person who could. In May, when the sun is painted with heather horseshoes, and the meadows cry with blue irises, Monet and his family go 80 kilometers north of Paris, to Zhiverni, where he will live 43 years, to death.

In this village, Monet creates a world in which he is happy - his garden. First, the family rents a small house and about 1 hectare of land. Sales of paintings are growing, and in the year Monet is redeemed by the estate, builds a greenhouse and a new house. At first he is engaged in the garden himself, later 7 gardeners help him. The artist creates drawings-planes of plantings, purchases seeds, writes out books on plant breeding, friends bring rare plants from Japan, Africa.

First of all, the gloomy alley of cypress and fir trees are cut down at the house. Weighty roses will climb their high stumps later. Then, metal arches will be put for roses, and a thick pink tunnel will lead to the house ... In the year, Monet buys the earth and begins a grandiose project for expanding the garden, in which the main pond with lilies will become the main thing.

White water lilies, water lilies from Egypt and South America are planted in it. On the shore - weeping willows, there and here - light bridges, of which Japanese, saw out with wisteria, are familiar to us from the paintings. So the second arose - the water - the Monet Garden, which has become more than 20 years as the hero of the best works of the artist: the master painted flowers and painted flowers.

For 5 years, the muna in Arzhanthai - the suburbs of Paris - on the shores of the Seine and right in the middle of it, from the boards of a small floating studio, studies the effects of light and its reflections. Impression Sunrise The artist begins to think and create in terms of light and color, and not objects and scenes. At the same time, in the year, in the workshop of the photographer Nadar on the Kapucin Boulevard, the first exhibition of new artists took place.

Particularly violent criticism was subjected to Monet's painting “Impression. Sunrise of the Sun »Impression, Soleil Levant. Journalist Louis Leroy comes up with the “derogatory” name “impressionists” for the participants of the exhibition, and compares the paintings with the wallpaper - in favor of the latter. But now we remember about Leroy only because he gave the name to the greatest phenomenon in painting - impressionism.

Le Boulevard des Capucines The result of a study of light for Monet subsequently becomes a series of paintings in which the same objects are haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, Podol, Lilia, the Charving Cross bridge, London parliament-are depicted in the morning, at noon, in the fog, in the rain. The writer Octave Mirbo saw in the cycles "various states of the Earth’s consciousness, the drama of the planet." And in the garden - water lilies.

More canvases that have been the same cycle. When the vision of the master was affected by cataracts, the water lilies became blue and lilac. The master begins to draw water lilies in the year. First - in a vertical composition, with the famous Japanese bridge or pink arches. Further on the canvases only lilies remain, pond and - light. Day day, at different hours and weather, with different moods, depicting water lilies in the water, the master reaches literally a dizzying effect - what happens if you look in dark water for a long time.

Talent to the drawing is manifested in Monet in childhood. In Gavra, where the family of the future artist moved from Paris, by 15 years, Monet became famous as a master of accurate and cheerful caricature. His drawings, exhibited in the shop of art and written accessories, attracted crowds of Gavrtians. The young man has customers of cartoons, for each of his work he takes up to 20 francs.

Monet does not spend money - even then he decided to leave for Paris. And the garden in Zhiverni became the largest and priceless canvas of the master. Created according to the laws of nature and light, it has the same magic as the paintings of Monet. I have only one interest, paintings ”as most great painters, fate experienced Monet - the refusal of parents in material assistance, ridicule of creativity, the death of loved ones.

But he was always faithful to purpose. Therefore, he reached the top. In the year, when Monet only got used to Paris, he found like -minded people and teachers, he was being called into the army in Algeria for 7 years. To pay off the service, it was necessary to pay 2 francs.Monet asked his parents, they agreed, but with the condition that the young man returns to the Havre and is engaged in the family business - Bachelor.

For the sake of freedom and painting, Monet chooses a war and Algeria. There he fell ill with a typhoid, was sent for treatment to his homeland, and then aunt, who helped the artist all his life, redeems his liberation from military service for 3 francs. All teachings and rules. He said: "I like to draw according to the same laws by which the bird sings." When the young man decides to become an artist, his father supports him.

But, being in Paris, Monet refuses to go to the school of elegant arts, preferring her a noisy and fun company from the “zucchini martyrs”. The father stops sending money, but the future master remains adamant. The first success was the basis for the development of individual technology. And here the audience ceases to accept and understand the work of Monet.

But - lonely and uncompromising - it goes on. And then the fractional smear technique appears - the basis of impressionism in painting. Fractional smears, pure colors that do not pass into each other, but are adjacent, erode the clear boundaries of objects, create the effect of “sunny rowan” or multiple light, smoke, breathing, impressions ... “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand how it was necessary when you just need to love” Claude Monet not in schools and academies, but in nature.

The main lesson that he learned is no understanding, there is love. The master survived everything - from complete denial, when they laughed at his canvases and compared with the wallpaper, before worship. Already at the end of Monet’s life, one of the artistic critics will say that “scientists could determine how much oxygen and nitrogen in the air on the paints of the painter.” These words are the highest recognition for the master, because he dreamed of portraying "the Light itself." However, Monet is sad.

He sees that the majority do not follow the internal sense of acceptance of his paintings, but to the general - fashion in Monet. They go to Shayi, Monet writes “Breakfast on the grass”, among the “breakfast” - Camilla. They return to Paris - Monet in 4 days writes a portrait of Camille “Lady in Green”, who brought him real success. And then on the canvases of the master - she.

Even when the family is going through difficult times, and Monet asks Parisian friends to send him 20 francs to help him “for a quarter of an hour”, the artist is happy: she is nearby. But in the year, expecting a second child, Camilla fell ill, and died after birth. Monet writes the picture “Camille on the deathbed” is one of the most piercing canvases in world painting, on which is the face of a loved one and ...

complete emptiness, icy eternity ... Creativity has become a salvation for the artist - from irreparable loss, from human rumor, from the loss of faith in himself and God. Sunrise of the Sun ”, calling the main drawback of its“ impossibility to consider anything ”, Monet only shrugged:“ Miserable blinders ... ”. His real answer was a new, even more “foggy” picture “Saint-Lazar Station”.

To write it, the artist had to ... detain the train. Wearing the most expensive of his costumes, a shirt with lace cuffs, taking a cane with a golden knob all the wealth that the starving Monet had, the artist goes to the director of the Western railways. It seems: “I am the artist Claude Monet. I thought for a long time which station to choose for the picture - and chose yours.

” Struck by the view and tone of Monet, the director did everything that the painter asked: he stopped the trains so that Monet could see and write, forced to fill the train furnaces with corner so that the entire platform was dulling with smoke ... The director did not know that the young insolent was a ridiculed and poor artist. Why is this story?

.. Monet understood and realized his high purpose. The master could do everything for the path - with what and why he came to the world. He could pretend, love, quit, go against everyone with only one purpose - to fulfill the intended one. This is the path of geniuses.