claude monet

Claude Monet

The presentation by

Evgeniya Kurkina (janealex7@mail.ru)

Plan of presentation

Who was Claude Monet?

His biography and ambiance

Works Death

Why he is still

important?

Who was Claude Monet?

French painter

One of the founders of impressionism

Claude’s biography

• Was born on November 14, 1840

• In 1850 Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of arts

• Became known for his charcoal caricatures

• Eugéne Boudin was his mentor and taught him to use oil paints

• In 1862 C. Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris.

• He had been to England, Holland and Italy.

• In 1866 Monet met his future wife Camille Doncieux and made a lot of works with her.

• In 1868 Camille and Claude’s 1st child Jean was born. 1878 – 2nd child Michel.

• That year, due to financial reasons, Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Seine.

• In 1870 Claude got married with Camille. In 1876 she became ill and 3 years later she died of tuberculosis.

Monet’s self portrait

Monet’s ambiance

Alfred Sisley

Johan Barthold Jongkind

Claude

Monet

Frédéric Bazille

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What inspired Claude Monet?

His wife Camille Docieux

Landscapes of Le Harve

His garden in Giverny

Nature of Mediterranean

La Femme à la Robe Verte

Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress, painted in 1866, brought him recognition.

Impression, Sunrise (1873)

Impression sunrise was painted in Le

Havre and gave its

name to the impressionism movement.

The most famous and most expensive works of C. Monet

Water Lilys. (1919) Was sold for 80,549 mln$

Rose Arches at Giverny. 1913 17,750 mln$

Path along the Water-Lily Pond. 1900

32,991 mln$

Wild Poppies, Near Argenteuil, 1873

Death

Claude Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery. Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony.

Why C. Monet is still so important for France and the world art’s life?

C. Monet was one of the founders of impressionism

Through his life Monet painted about 2500 paintings.

Without him art would never become so interesting, and full of light, and beauty.

References :

http://www.claudemonetgallery.org

http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/

http://www.moodbook.com/history/impressionism/claude-monet.html

http://giverny-monet.com/top10en.htm