Luncheon On The Grass (1865)
● Monet’s first masterpiece; ● using the same theme and same style as Manet two years before for his own "Luncheon on the grass", a painting which scandalized people at the "Salon" in 1863.
Monet, And The Impression Movement He Was In
Outline
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Historical Background The Introduction of Impressionism Monet, the Impressionist The Influence of Monet and the Impressionism
Exquisite capture of light and colours
The Reader
In the spring of 1872 Probably the portrait of his wife Camille
Impression Sunrise(1873)
—— The Impressionism was born
Avoiding black was so deeply anchored in Monet's manner that when he died, his friend Georges Clemenceau would not stand the black sheet covering the coffin. He exclaimed : "No ! No black for Monet !" and replaced it by a flowered material.
Complimentary colours - create an especially intense effect; vibrancy
Life beyond the frame – seemingly careless cut off figures; viewers to acknowledge that life continued beyond the frame
Life in Vétheuil
"How many shades of how many colors are there within the nuances of light in this simple tree trunk ?" Claude Monet
Travels (1884~1908)
Influence from Camera
● helping the artists study movement and gestures to capture a sense of real-life spontaneity, to fully understand the surroundings, the details, contrasts to view from another perspective and so on; ● Inspiring them to experiment with the candid groupings, off-center focus, deep perspectives foreshortening; ● recording the real world rather than historical imagination - Impressionists motivated to depict people and landscapes without mythological or historical exaggerations.
Representative Figures
Impressionist painters: ● Principal: Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, etc ● Edgar Degas(德加) and Paul Cézanne（塞尚）in the early 1870s. ● The established painter Manet adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873. In other aspects: ● Music: Claude Debussy & Maurice Ravel ● Literature (closely related to symbolism): Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, etc.
"What I'll bring back from here will
be softness itself, white, pink, blue, all of this wrapped in this fairy air." Claude Monet
The Netherlands(1886)
Venice, Italy(1908) ● affected by cataract(白内障),
Historical Background
What Is Impressionism?
● Impressionism,
a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Innovation & Experiments
Blurred moving figures - slow shutter speed; blurry effect Mixing primary colours - a palette of just eight to ten colors to achieve many variable and subtle effects Painting real people - everyday activities; various classes
● Impressionist
painting comprises the work produced by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques.
● The
most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects(瞬时效应) of light and colour.
Life in Argenteuil
The Luncheon - family happiness at Argenteuil: A quiet summer afternoon, Jean Monet is sitting on the ground and playing, Camille appears in the background .
● when
Camille Pissarro, the Impressionist patriarch, died in 1903, everybody agreed that this movement was the main 19th century artistic revolution, and that all its members were among the finest painters.
Public Opinion
● Paintings
were rejected by Salon de Paris and some museum exhibitions for many times
● If
Impressionists were becoming appreciated from the 1880s, their situation was still harsh; the Salon was still refusing their paintings, and in 1894, 25 out of 65 artworks donated to the Luxembourg museum were rejected.
vision altered
London, England(1900,1903)
Houses of Parliament, Effect of Sunlight in the Fog(1900)
The Late Year: Giverny (1883 - 1926)
"Whereas you are philosophically seeking the world in itself, I am simply focusing my efforts on a maximum of appearances in close correlations with unknown realities." Claude Monet
Paintings of Argenteuil & Vé theuil (1872~1882)
"It is because I rediscovered and allowed intuitive and secret forces to predominate that I was able to identify with creation and become absorbed in it." Claude Monet