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Claude Monet: Is the true promoter of Impressionism, which always remained faithful.
Born in Paris in 1840, spent most of his childhood in Le Havre, where he studied drawing in his teens with Eugène Louis Boudin. By 1859 Monet had firmly decided to start his career as an artist for what he spent long periods in Paris. In the 1860s he was associated with the pre-impressionist painter Édouard Manet and other French painters who would later form the impressionist school like Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Monet painted working outdoors, landscapes and scenes of contemporary bourgeois society, and began to have some success at official exhibitions. However, as his style evolved, Monet frequently transgressed
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The melting of Vetheuil, 1881 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum) is a good example of Monet's work from this period. In the mid-1880s Monet, considered the leader of the impressionist school, had achieved significant recognition and a good economic position. Despite the boldness of his colorful and extreme simplicity of his compositions, he was praised as a master of meticulous observation, an artist who sacrificed neither the true complexities of nature and intensity of their feelings. In 1890 he had the opportunity to acquire a property in the village of Giverny, near Paris, where he began to build a new garden (now open to the public) -a lily pond crossed by a Japanese bridge pendant with willows and clumps of bamboo -. In 1906 begins to paint the lily pond series that are exposed in the Orangerie in Paris in the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art. During these years he also worked in other series of paintings, groups of works that represent the same -álamos theme, Rouen Cathedral, the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Seine lights representing the different times of day or in different seasons. Monet continued to paint, even though the light was failing, almost until his death on December 5, 1926 in