Famous People Infoformation

Painters of the most beloved of all time for the delicacy and expressiveness of its mild paintings, Claude Oscar Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris. Artist novice, he spent his childhood with his family to Le Havre, a city that leaves at the age of fifteen years to move to Paris, on the advice of the painter Boudin. The French capital was in fact also the capital of culture and there is natural that the painter would find appropriate incentives to develop his ideas.
During the month of January of 1857 lost her mother.

In Paris, he enrolled in the “Académie Suisse, where, besides being struck by the paintings of Delacroix, Corot and Daubigny, meet artists specialized in landscapes, such as Pissarro, Bazille, Sisley and Renoir . Together they form a merry as a talented bunch, exchange ideas and cultural offerings, in addition to sharing moments of painting “live” in the forest of Fontainebleau.
League in particular and Bazille, with these, Monet finally found a studio staff, which processes some famous paintings, two of which (“The mouth of the Seine at Honfleur” and “Tip of the Cap de heve at low tide) were accepted in what became the famous “Salon des refusés” (the exhibition in which the revolutionaries sought refuge impressionists, all initially opposed by critics). These works had a criticism so flattering to push the artist to start painting “Luncheon on the Grass.”

Meanwhile, also running cartoons, a genre which has always been a teacher since childhood, was able to publish on paper some satirical. At the end of the year back in Le Havre, April 29, 1861 but received the call to arms from which it can not escape.
E ‘enlisted in the body of the hunters of Africa in June and left for Algiers.
Following say here that he prepared to Impressionism.
At a certain point the well established aunt Marie-Jeanne and manages to do so exempt.

In 1862 he worked with and met Jongkind Bourdin. In the autumn he was back in Paris: Gleyre enters the studio and met Renoir and Sisley, Bazille addition to find. Belong to these years some of the surrounding landscapes of Honfleur. In 1867 he painted “Women in the garden”, a fundamental step in the research impressionist. From this point on becomes a constant in his art, painting and the commitment to identify the nature, form and image, and to seize the moment to moment reality.

On June 28, 1870 wife Camille, her companion until September 5, 1879, when the shows on his deathbed. In September, came back to London to avoid the war, Daubigny submit it to Durand-Ruel that the first exhibition of the Society of French artists in his gallery in New Bond Street is, allows him to expose “Entry to the port of Trouville.”
In the works of the decade ’70-’80 impressionistic views are expressed. For example, “Breakfast,” “The Bridge Argantuil” and the famous “Impression, soleil levant”, it is extremely important because that will be called the Impressionist group.

In 1871 her father died and he moved to London where the blossoming interest in Turner and Constable.
In 1874 he moved to Holland where he creates landscapes and views of Amsterdam. At the Impressionist exhibition of that year Claude Monet presents seven pastels and five paintings, including “Field of Poppies.”

In 1876, Paul Cezanne Chocquet submit it to the collector. Performs four views of the gardens of the Tuileries. The following year he opened a studio in the Rue Moncey, produces various views of the Gare Saint-Lazare and exhibited at the third Impressionist exhibition. In 1878 he produced “Rue Montorguril”, “Rue Saint-Denis” and “Church Vétheuil.

After ten years presents its third exhibition of Les XX in Brussels ten new jobs. The works were exhibited in America and get huge success. In April, back in Holland to paint, from September to November stay at Belle-Ile-en-Mer in Brittany and produces about forty paintings which will end later in Giverny.
Here begins the series of “pools”. His international reputation grew: he exhibited again in Paris, St. Petersburg , Moscow, New York, Dresden and Boston.
In 1911 Durand-Ruel organizes two solo shows in New York.

In the same year he was diagnosed with a double cataract, but the eye operation was postponed. The eye problems get worse from year to year. It is ill with lung cancer in 1926. He dies on December 5th of that year in Giverny.