Research Paper On Claude Monet

Claude Monet has always been one of my favorite artists. Maybe it was because my mom loved him, or maybe it’s because he is an amazing artist. Claude Monet once said that everyone pretends to understand his artwork, like it needs to be understood, when it only needs to be loved. I have always loved his work. I love the colors he uses, and I also love his style. The style he uses is called impressionism and according to dictionary.com, impressionism is a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century that is a manner of painting in which the forms, colors, or tones of an object are lightly and rapidly indicated. Impressionism was founded by Claude Monet and others, “in 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society

organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism” (Samu, “Impressionism: Art and Modernity”). According to Charles F Stuckey, “Monet’s paintings of water lilies are the culmination of impressionism” (Stuckey 11). Monet is a genius. Simple as that. By viewing all his art work I was in awe. He uses the most beautiful technique and I wish I had an actual painting of his.

My visit to the Chicago Art Institute would be classified as interesting. The day I went, it was freezing outside and I took the train and walked to the art institute. While walking to the art institute that is when I came up with my presentation topic…. Chicago Art Sculptures, such as the bean. When I finally made it to the art institute, I loved all Monet’s artwork. He always uses the most beautiful light colors that look amazing together. I loved how he had a whole room of his art

Monet moved to Giverny when his wife Camille died. Monet wanted a change in scenery, “when Monet set up home in Le Pressoir in Giverny in 1883, he embarked on a new life” (Bocquillon-Ferretti, 11). Monet only wanted people to enjoy his work, he wanted perfection and would destroy his artwork if he did not like it. Monet’s Gallery website states that, “the earlier, smaller water lilies are characterized by attention paid to the pretty aspects of the painting, like the flowers, later downplayed by Monet” (“Monet Gallery”). In 1893 he bought a plot of land beside the Epte that he kept digging to dig a pond (Bocquillon-Ferretti, 16). Monet spent a lot of time to perfect his pond and “almost ten years later he tripled the size of his pond” (Bocquillon-Ferretti, 17). Monet came up with the water lily pond idea at the 1889 international exhibition (Bocquillon-Ferretti, 16). During the first fifteen years of Monet’s life spent in Giverny he did not paint his garden (Bocquillon-Ferretti, 15). A art critique named Jean-Pierre Hoschede once wrote that, “the pond was designed and made, not by a gardener, but by and impressionist, who made them as he would have painted a picture from nature”