The document discusses Claude Monet and his role in the Impressionist movement. It provides background on Monet's artistic philosophy and approach, including his emphasis on capturing transient visual impressions painted directly from nature using broken color. Examples of several of Monet's prominent landscape and water lily paintings are presented and analyzed in relation to Impressionism. The challenges the reader to consider which two works are most representative of Monet's style and if his paintings reinforce or contradict their understanding of Impressionism.
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1. The Move Toward Modernism: A Look at Monet Chapter 31 Humanities 103 Instructor Beth Camp
2. Impressionism 1875-1900 Transitory visual impressions Painted directly from nature (plein air) Observed nature closely Used broken color to show form and luminosity Rejected academic standards, romantic emotion or imagination
3. Challenge Question: Do the paintings by Monet reinforce or contradict your understanding of Impressionism? As you view these works, select two paintings which you think are most representative of Monets work.
4. Claude Monet (1840-1926) Suddenly, it was as though a veil had been ripped from my eyes. I understood, I saw, what painting could be! From that moment on, my way was clear, my destiny decreed. I would be a painter no matter what. And I understood nature and I learned at the same time to love it. Monet at 18; Boudin introduces him to plein air painting Next: Bathing at La Grenouillere (1869)
8. Monet The Stroll, Camille Monet and her son Jean (Woman with a Parasol), (1875)
9. Claude Monet (1840-1926) When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you -- a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. 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 na誰ve impression of the scene before you.
10. Claude Monet (1840-1926) Landscapes Impressions: Sunrise (1873) Wheatstacks (End of Summer) (1890-1891)
15. Claude Monet (1840-1926) One day I believe I have a masterpiece, then it turns to nothing; I fight, I fight without advancing. I think I am searching for the impossible although I am full of courage. Monet quoted in Monet to Moore, Portland Art Museum, 1999-2000 Next: The Japanese Bridge (1918-1924)
17. About Monet What is your impression of Monets work? Which one or two paintings were you most intrigued by? Why? How would you describe the subtext of Monets work?
18. Challenge Question: Did the paintings by Monet reinforce or contradict your understanding of Impressionism? Which two paintings are most representative of Monets work and why?
19. Sources 際際滷s from Mark Hardins Artchive Monet to Moore, Portland Art Museum, 1999-2000 Follow-up: Do some additional reading about these three painters. What did each contribute? How are they different? How are they alike? What were the most memorable images from this slide show? Why?
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