Research Paper On Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a painter in France, who introduced a new idea of painting. His paintings had a way of not having an exact focus on a figure in the painting itself. This new type of painting was named “Impressionism” meaning that when people looked at it they had to make impressions on what the painting is, their selves. Monet’s work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism; although it had critics, it still became popular because of the new visualization within the painting. Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. His family moved out of Paris when he was young to a port city in the Normandy region. At a young age, Monet showed a great interested in being outside, he did not like being confined in a classroom.

This type of painting was not to create an exact landscape, but only to record the impression shaped while looking at it. Critics did not appreciate the fact that viewing the painting a person could not actually depict the figures in the background of Monet’s painting. The term “impressionism” was originally implied by critics to express the derision of Monet’s work. Those critics also said that the look of these works made the artists seems poorly trained and unable to finish their work. The fact that the paintings looked more like sketch work rather than actual finished paintings was what the people did not like. Although the term “impressionism” was not a nice term to begin with, it fit the painters rather well. Monet painted this way because he sought to capture the essence of the natural world by using those strong colors and bold but short brushstrokes. The paintings brought out a new color theory that people had not seen before in previous works. Monet said that there was no black in nature so there should be no black in his paintings. There is even a presence of color within the shadows of the figures in the paintings. This type of work is more about light and form than the realistic part of