Have you ever seen the beautiful painting titled Water Lilies painted by the famous Claude Monet? If you haven’t, it’s a really great masterpiece and you should totally check it out at the Art Institute of Chicago! Claude Monet was a famous French artist who was a significant individual during the Impressionist movement. The Impressionist movement dealt with “capturing light and natural forms through art.” Like other impressionist artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille, Monet “observed variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes.” Claude Monet connects to what we are learning in school because he is a famous artist that has a painting displayed in the Art Institute of Chicago that
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His father, Claude Adolphe Monet, didn’t have a connection with art. Adolphe worked in his family’s shipping business. His mother, Louise Justine Aubree, “took care of the family, was a known hostess, and was a trained singer who had an interest in poetry.” As a child, Monet was a good student but he had more interest in other things rather than education. In the text it states, “At an early age, Monet developed a love of drawing. He filled his school books with sketches of people, including caricatures of his teachers. While his mother supported his artistic efforts, Monet's father wanted him to go into business.” These statements from the text explain how Monet wasn’t very interested in his school work. He would draw all over his school books with drawings. Even though his mother was supportive of his artistic interest, his father wanted him to pursue business. Monet became “well known in the town of Le Havre for his caricatures and drawing people in the town as well. He met Eugene Boudin in the town of Le Havre. Boudin exposed him to plein air painting, painting outdoors which is what truly inspired him as an Impressionist artist.” Claude Monet once said that “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 your own naïve impression of the scene before
His father, Claude Adolphe Monet, didn’t have a connection with art. Adolphe worked in his family’s shipping business. His mother, Louise Justine Aubree, “took care of the family, was a known hostess, and was a trained singer who had an interest in poetry.” As a child, Monet was a good student but he had more interest in other things rather than education. In the text it states, “At an early age, Monet developed a love of drawing. He filled his school books with sketches of people, including caricatures of his teachers. While his mother supported his artistic efforts, Monet's father wanted him to go into business.” These statements from the text explain how Monet wasn’t very interested in his school work. He would draw all over his school books with drawings. Even though his mother was supportive of his artistic interest, his father wanted him to pursue business. Monet became “well known in the town of Le Havre for his caricatures and drawing people in the town as well. He met Eugene Boudin in the town of Le Havre. Boudin exposed him to plein air painting, painting outdoors which is what truly inspired him as an Impressionist artist.” Claude Monet once said that “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 your own naïve impression of the scene before