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Birth of the founder of impressionist painting.
He was born in Rue Laffitte, Paris, France on November 14, 1840.
he was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and his wife Louise Justine Aubrée. -
Education.
Claude Monet attended secondary school in Le Havre, he received drawing classes from Jacques-François Ochard. He did not like school discipline and preferred to be on the cliff or by the sea. During his classes he drew caricatures of his teachers and other students that were displayed in the window of the only frame merchant in Le Havre. -
Draftsman.
At the age of 15, Monet was already known as a draftsman throughout the city and received commissions for which he charged up to 20 francs. -
Become a painter
After the death of her mother, her aunt, who was an amateur painter and had contact with the painter Armand Gautier, took care of the young Claude Monet.The family moved. From these years came Monet's first landscapes and he made the decision to become a painter. -
Meets Pissarro
Following his artistic inclinations he went to study in Paris, enters the Charles Suisse academy, where he meets and befriends Pissarro. -
He contracted typhus
He contracts typhus in his military service and had to return to Le Havré for 6 months to recover. He worked with Boudin outdoors. Finally he is exonerated from military service in Algeria because his aunt paid 3,000 francs. His condition: that he go and study in Paris to complete his artistic training. -
Wife
In 1864 he met 19 years old Camille Doncieux, who in 1867 became pregnant and finally married her in 1870. -
Had a suicide attempt
The serious economic problems and the birth of his illegitimate son, Jean, led Monet to live a time of extreme hunger and poverty, as well as a frustrated suicide attempt. -
"Women in the Garden"
Looking at Manet's success in the "Hall of the Rejected", she sends painted works in the open air with varying acceptance. In 1867, Manet's rejection of "Women in the Garden", along with Camille's pregnancy, brings a moment of hopelessness and financial trouble. However, while life is distressing and he even tries to commit suicide, it is a time when his impressionistic brushwork conveys calm and maturity. -
Argenteuil pond
Monet was interested in the Argenteuil pond as the ideal place to adapt his technique to the rapid representation of water and light. The work entitled Monet working on his ship at Argenteuil (1874, Neue Pinakothek, Munich) represents that kind of nautical laboratory from which the artist could navigate on the pond water appreciating the changing light effects of its surface, which he reproduced through various variations. on the same topic. -
"Cooperative Joint-stock Company of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers"
The “Cooperative Limited Company of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers” is founded, which he leads himself and which intends to move away from the “Salon” and which in 1874 presents Pissarro, Boudin, Gautier, Cézanne, Sisley and Renoir, among others. There they are baptized, disparagingly, as "impressionists" (by the critic Louis Leroy) and they organize seven exhibitions. -
Monet, the leader
The first of the modern isms already had a name and Monet was considered the leader of the group.
When the work was shown in the first impressionist exhibition, the critic Louis Leroy used the term to refer contemptuously, in Le Charivari, to those who until then were known as Manet's group. -
Etretat cliffs
An exhibition with 18 of his individual works provides sales and critical success. They move to the Norman coast, where the cliffs are the protagonists of his work. Another solo exhibition of 56 paintings brings him good reviews but little income. -
House in Giverny.
Monet rented a house, where he would live the remaining four decades of his life. During his early years there he painted countless views of fields and meadows with wildflowers, among others: "Fields in Spring" (1887) and Spring in Giverny (1890). -
Monet's painting became more complex
The immediate and euphoric initials morphed into dissatisfaction and melancholy, in a difficult attempt to reconcile the fresh and expressive technique of his early years with deeper and more ambitious searches that dragged on. for several days, months and even years, with the intention of creating works that contained greater complexity: Snow Effect (1891, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), Haystacks are works that are part of some of his first series. -
Death
Although his vision was affected by cataracts, Monet continued to work until 1925. The following year, already blind and confined to bed, he died at his Giverny home.
