CLAUDE MONET

Claude Monet

"The house of parliament, sunset”- The painting by Claude Monet

Introduction

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter, who was one of the founders of Impressionism, the most confident and most consistent of all the representatives of Impressionist painting. His early drawings are caricatures of people (teachers, politicians). Eugene Boudin invited him to paint landscape and nature. In 1872, with some of his friends including Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Monet organizes an exhibition of works that initially rejected by the official Salon in Paris. Monet's famous painting presents Impression, Sunrise which titled him with Impressionist movement.

Discussion

The paintings of the ...