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** Who is Monet? Impressionism is an art movement that started in the 19th century, which focuses on the image of the object as if the artist just caught a glimpse of it. Claude Monet is an impressionist who created a series of the same motif, using light to change how something looked which usually involved domestic scenes of his family and garden. Monet’s best friend inspired him to paint outside. He moved towards Impressionist art through two of his artworks,//The River// and //The Beach at Sainte-Adresse//. Monet paid little attention to the weight or solidity of the object he was painting (Monet, screen 2). After Monet lost some of his eyesight he focused on his artwork, mostly on realism and contemporary but soon went back to his normal life and painting style. --Lina
 * Monet And Impressionism

What is Impressionism?

What is impressionism? Impressionism can be defined as an artistic movement that happened in the nineteenth century, specifically France, and has changed the way art is made in all of Europe. Impressionism mainly started from the influences of classicism and realism. The main characteristic of impressionism is that it can be known for its short brush strokes and unmixed colors to create a real vibration of the scenery. Another characteristic of impressionism is that many of the artists during this time period focused on emotions and nature rather than the actual reality of an object or person. Impressionism was a movement in which created new techniques and views on the world. The movement did not only affect the artistic world, but also 19th century Europe. It affected Europe in ways of lifestyles. Many people gladly began to accept impressionism and its idea of pure natural art. The artistic idea of having details and explicit shades of colors was replaced by impressionism, but was then also followed the ideas of cubism, neo-impressionism and postimpressionism. A more worldview on impressionism was that it didn’t only affect Europe but also the countries that had connections with such as America and Japan. These countries, however, used impressionism to show freedom and peace. Lastly the main artist who made impressionism such a popular form of art is Monet. -Melissa Montoni

**Side Note:** Impressionism overall was an artistic and political movement that created a new view on the world, but also new techniques such as: · Impasto-which is the technique of trying to capture the essence of a picture rather than the details · The absence of using black paint, instead used gray shadows · Paying close attention to colors that are used · Sense of trying to create photographs  < This is an example by Monet that shows the different techniques of impressionism, notice how it is very dotted and blurry to keep the picture a true sense of nature. -Melissa Montoni

Monet's Paintings  (you can notice this picture by its eerie combo of colors, but it still maintains its beauty) (done with oil paint) Many of Monet’s paintings were paintings that had to deal with nature and the capturing of light. Though many might see his paintings as simply images of nature he actually had deeper meaning behind them that reflected the life he had. Monet’s life was one that was very tragic and harsh, and in one picture //The Morning // he creates an eerie combination of colors to portray a swamp. Monet created this picture to show how nature has a mysterious beauty to it one that the humans will never understand. His main point was that this picture of a swamp may look ugly, but to nature it is something beautiful and as humans we fail to see the inner beauty. The connection the picture has to his life could be that he was a young artist majorly influenced by impressionism, and trying to show people a new sense of beauty, and similar to how someone might fail to see the beauty in a swamp they fail to see the beauty in his art. This can relate to impressionism having an affect in the 19th century is how people, at first, refused to see the new ways of art, but once they accepted this new art the people loved it and used it as symbols for all purposes.

  (the art of impressionism remains in this picture, but Monet adds his own style by giving her a fading effect) Similar to how Monet related his emotions and life to nature scenes he also did this with paintings of people, such as his wife Madame Monet. Around the late 1800s his wife who he loved dearly became ill and was close to death. To comprehend with the fact that he is going to loose something as close to him as his wife Monet created this picture of her along with their son. At first glance viewers can just think it is nothing more but an impressionist picture of his wife and son, but there is a deeper meaning behind the paint. Monet painted this picture in style of impressionism, which was the short brush strokes, but he also seemed to have created a fading or disappearing affect around his wife. He did this to show how day-by-day he is slowly losing a part of her, but to also show he will never forget her. The connection the picture has to European 19th century is that it shows how the new art was leaning more towards emotions, and the personal life of the artist.-Melissa Montoni (1) (2) (3)

 Overall Impressionism was a movement that created new views, lifestyles, and techniques to the 19th century Europe. Other than impressionism having a big impact on it’s own the famous artist, Claude Monet, also made contributions (due to his tragic life) to this movement such as creating symbols and meaning behind the pictures. The movement of impressionism, and the impact of the famous artist, Claude Monet created a movement that did not only change the artistic and social life of Europe, but also other countries around the world.media type="youtube" key="leZh-sBUrL4" height="385" width="480" (1) This picture, simmilar to other pictures was done in oil paint and has the effect of a quick glimpse to give it more a real sense. (oil paint) (2) Later in Monet's life he became infatuated with water-lilies, which he got inspired from the Japanese, and began to paint them in a very realistic manner. (oil paint) (3) Like his other nature paints Monet wanted to paint a picture of nature, but not to paint it to extreme detail, but as if someone took a quick glance at an autumn tree. (oil paint)-Melissa Montoni

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