Claude Monet, one of the founder members of Impressionist art, and someone who also played a key role in maintaining Paris' standing as the world's art city is someone who deserves great scrutiny for the work he achieved during his long and illustrious career. In this article we discuss a few of his most important contributions to French art and leave resources at the end for those wishing to learn more about this incredible artist.
For much of his career Monet loved to travel around Europe and use local scenes as his subjects for his impressionist landscape paintings. As time grew on Monet spent most of his time in his beloved garden that he constructed in France as a perfect venue for his paintings. Impressionist art often requires painting during a small window of opportunity during the day, where lighting and weather are exactly as required. By setting up this beautiful garden in Giverny, Monet was more flexible with his opportunities to paint, and also had perfect control over his subjects, be it his Japanese-style bridge or the water lilies and other flowers that adorned his garden.
Monet's early career was what landed him his reputation and style from which he built upon in later life. Some of his key works from the 1860s to 1880s include Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, Poppies Blooming, Woman with a Parasol & Rue Montorgueil. Monet then went on to create some his best known series of works, with series of Haystacks, Poplars, and some set in Venice and London following. His most famous sets of artworks were to follow upon the construction of his garden in Giverny, where Water Lilies, Nympheas & his Japanese bridge were portrayed in his most famous set of art works, even surpassing his earlier Impression, Sunrise which had given this new art movement, of which he was so important, its very name.
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