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Claude Monet, French - (1840-1926)
Born in Paris November 14, 1840, CLAUDE OSCAR MONET spent his childhood in Le Havre, France. Even at that early age, Monet was able to visualize the light and atmosphere and render them instantly with his hand.
Monet was one of the chief organizers and exhibitors at the first Impressionism Show held in 1874 at Nadar’s Studio. A few of the thirty artists were: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot and Eugene Boudin. The common thread for the artists was rejection by the Salon judges and opposition to official art. Monet himself recognized that he was using a technique different from the established norm. In his attempt to capture a transitory moment on canvas with his every brush stroke, and his every color choice, Monet worked at a frantic pace...faster then what he called a sketch. In his own words, his objective was to create an "impression" of what he was seeing.
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Monet Waterlilies Teapot
Reviving the 17th-century English tradition of painting on enamel, this miniature teapot has a reproduction of a Claude Monet’s Impressionist painting of Water lilies from the late 19th century. Made from porcelain, hand painted enamel on all sides, hinged lid, decorative use only, approximately 3" x 4". 4029, $24
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Monet Waterlilies Print
Gallery quality print, unframed, measures 39.4"L x 15.75"H. 3997, $40
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| The term "impression" signified the sensory information registered on the retina prior to cogitation of any sort. "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever." Monet explained to an American neighbor in Giverny, "merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naive impression of the scene before you. |
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