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Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)
Monet
was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent
and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's
perceptions before nature.
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre,
he witnessed painters copying from the old artists. Having brought his paints
and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint
what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters
who would become friends and fellow impressionists; among them was Manet.
In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment
of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but he had contracted
typhoid fever, his aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre intervened to get him out of the
army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school. In 1862 Monet
became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to painting,
the effects of light with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later
came to be known as Impressionism.
Monet's Camille or The Woman in
the Green Dress, painted in 1866, brought him recognition and was one of
many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux.She was the model for the figures in The Woman in the Garden of the
following year, as well as for On the
Bank of the Seine. Shortly thereafter, Cammille became pregnant and gave
birth to their first child, Jean.
Monet
died of lung cancer
on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church
cemetery. Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple and only about fifty
people attended the ceremony.
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