Research Question: What distinguished Claude Monet’s painting styles from other painters’ styles in Monet time period?
Claude Monet, born in November 14th, 1840 in Paris, was one of the most magnificent painter who produced many artistic and supreme paintings. He painted everything that touched his heart and made him feel pleasant. He developed new kinds of techniques that have never been studied or used before (in his time), and reflected reflection and transparency in his outstanding work. He impressed many painters and inspired them too. But Monet himself was inspired by a painter called Edouard Manet. Manet was known for painting such realism and daily life paintings. He was one of the first, along with Claude Monet, to use the technique Impressionism. Impressionism is painting scenes in the way the painter sees it, in other words, painting the scene in your own point of view. Impressionism, the revolution of the 19th century, was born in Paris. Many young painters used this photogenic art technique in their own paintings, which made them more popular with the way they see the world. With the word “impression” the painters would catch the moment of the scene in the way they saw it, and used the pencil-brushes to make the movements of nature more effective by showing light effects. When Impressionism was used in paintings, it was known that the painting was better viewed from a distance than from near sight, thus the painting would express its realism and it would look more photogenic. This was especially for Monet’s paintings since he used great blobs of paint to accent and object. There was no specific leader of Impressionism, but Edouard Manet and Claude Monet were the ones who painted the most in that technique. But later in that period, Claude Monet did inspire more and more painters with his uncommon talent in art, and was soon called the King of Impressionism. Monet used the term “Impressionism” in one of his paintings called, Impression, soleil levant. It was a view on Le Havre in the mist in 1872. Monet painted all kinds of landscapes, especially in the open air. He encouraged many other painters to do so too, because whenever he painted in the open sky it made him feel free and so emotional, which encouraged him to keep on painting. Monet started to focus his paintings on more descriptive details and landscapes when he met Eugène Boudin in 1856. Eugène Boudin believed that a painter must work outside in order to capture the essence of the true beauty of nature, to catch more details and the mood of nature. Boudin was much known for this statement, which has influenced Monet’s life in painting.
