This research began in my Oral Communication Class at BRTC. Each individual had to make an informative Power-point for our last speech. I of course chose to do mine on Monet a French Impressionist. Here is a little information about Impressionism.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Self Portrait 1886
Claude Monet was a famous French artist known as the founder or father of the Impressionist Movement during the 19th century. The Impressionist Period started around the 1870, and continued until the 1890’s. According to Webster’s Dictionary impressionism is defined as a style or movement in painting, characterized by depicting a visual impression of a moment in terms of shifting effect of light and color. This simply means that the impressionist painter’s official theory was that the color should be dropped pure on the canvas instead of getting mixed on the palette as in the Romanticism and Realism Periods prior to this new movement that occurrs between Realism and Modernism Periods.
In 1874, Monet and a group of painters including Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir banded together to form a society of artists. They gave a public exhibition of their work at the studio of a Paris photographer. Monet exhibited a painting called, “Impression: Sunrise.” His painting gave the group its name, coined in derision by critic Louis Leroy referring to the entire exhibition as “Impressionistic.” Despite the financial failure of this first exhibit, the Impressionist continued to exhibit together until 1886.
Other Impressionist are as follows:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Self Portrait 1875
Born 25 February 1841 in Limoges. He was the sixth child of Leonard Lenoir and Marguerite Merlet. In 1844 Renoir and his family moved to Paris where Leonard Renoir earned his living as a tailor. In 1854 Renoir left school and begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Levy Freres. His precocious talent for painting would assure his career as a porcelain painter but the firm went bankrupt in 1858. After that Renoir dabbled in a number of different jobs but it seems that he may have decided to become a full-time painter around this date.
On January 24, 1860 Renoir was granted permission to copy in the Louvre, a practice that he maintained for the next four years. At this time Renoir had a taste for the eighteenth-century masters, including Fragonard, Lancret , Watteau and above all Boucher. Bouchers Bath of Diana was the first painting that he adored and he continued to love it all his life.
Edouard Manet
Self Portrait - 1878
This is a wonderful movie about all the impressionists.
Uploaded by deonildo1001 on May 25, 2011 on Youtube.
Other Impressionist are as follows:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Self Portrait 1875
Born 25 February 1841 in Limoges. He was the sixth child of Leonard Lenoir and Marguerite Merlet. In 1844 Renoir and his family moved to Paris where Leonard Renoir earned his living as a tailor. In 1854 Renoir left school and begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Levy Freres. His precocious talent for painting would assure his career as a porcelain painter but the firm went bankrupt in 1858. After that Renoir dabbled in a number of different jobs but it seems that he may have decided to become a full-time painter around this date.
On January 24, 1860 Renoir was granted permission to copy in the Louvre, a practice that he maintained for the next four years. At this time Renoir had a taste for the eighteenth-century masters, including Fragonard, Lancret , Watteau and above all Boucher. Bouchers Bath of Diana was the first painting that he adored and he continued to love it all his life.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Private life of a Masterpiece.
Edouard Manet
Self Portrait - 1878
Born January 23, 1832, in Paris, France, Manet was a painter who defined tradition in both his choices of modern, urban subjects and his experiments with perspective. His work was criticized for most of his life and was not truly appreciated until the 20the century. He helped pave the way for the revolutionary art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, greatly influencing modern art. He died April 30, 1883 in Paris.
Paul Cezanne
Self Portrait
Born January 19, 1839, in Aix-en Provence, Cezanne's father, Philippe Auguste, was the cofounder of a banking firm that prospered throughout the artist's life, affording him financial security that was unavailable to most of his contemporaries and eventually resulting in a large inheritance.
Jean Frédéric Bazille
Self Portrait 1865
He was born on December 6, 1841 in Montpellier, Hérault (France) to a Protestant family of middle class. In 1862 Bazille was studying medicine when he first meet Renoir which is when he became interested in the impressionist way painting. Most of his famous works were painted when he was just 23 years old, which included The Pink Dress. He most well know painting is a Family Reunion in 1867-1868. Sadly his career was short because he was killed in action during the Franco-Prussian War on November 28, 1870 in Beaune-la-Rolande, Loiret. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
And the last painter in my collection is
Edgar Degas
Manet The Man Who Invented Modern Art
Paul Cezanne
Self Portrait
Born January 19, 1839, in Aix-en Provence, Cezanne's father, Philippe Auguste, was the cofounder of a banking firm that prospered throughout the artist's life, affording him financial security that was unavailable to most of his contemporaries and eventually resulting in a large inheritance.
Jean Frédéric Bazille
Self Portrait 1865
He was born on December 6, 1841 in Montpellier, Hérault (France) to a Protestant family of middle class. In 1862 Bazille was studying medicine when he first meet Renoir which is when he became interested in the impressionist way painting. Most of his famous works were painted when he was just 23 years old, which included The Pink Dress. He most well know painting is a Family Reunion in 1867-1868. Sadly his career was short because he was killed in action during the Franco-Prussian War on November 28, 1870 in Beaune-la-Rolande, Loiret. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Frédéric Bazille
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And the last painter in my collection is
Edgar Degas
Self Portrait 1855
He was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris, France. His father was a banker and his mother was an American woman from New Orleans. They were very musical household since his mother was an amateur opera singer his father often arranged recitals in their home. Degas went to a prestigious boys' secondary school, known as the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. From a very early age Degas showed remarkable talent for painting and drawing and was encouraged by his father who was a knowledeable art lover. When Degas was 18 he got permission to practice at the Louvre in Paris.
A few years later in 1862 he met Edouard Manet at the Louvre, and quickly developed a friendly rivalry. They both disliked for the art establishment during that time as well as their beliefs that artist needed to have more modern techniques than just coping their masters. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out Degas volunteered for the French National Guard. When it ended in 1871 a bloody civil war broke out Degas avoided the tumult of the Paris Commune with a trip to New Orleans. He returned to Paris at the end of 1873 where he along with other impressionist formed the Societe Anonyme des Artistes, who put on their own art exhibitions free of the Salon's control.
He never married but was intimate with many women, including the American painter Mary Cassatt.including the American painter Mary Cassatt.
During his life he painted around 1200 paintings and also made about 75 scultures. His most famous sculpture is the Little Dancer, a real ballet dancer who he captured in time with his sculpture made of wax. Degas passed away on September 27, 1917, at the age of 83.
I believe that these men throughout their lives wanted the fame of an artist, but never really got the satisfaction of knowing just how much they would impact and change the modern thoughts of art during their century. It is their legacy's they leave behind that intriques me the most about each one. Each man came from different lifestyles and different classifaction of society. Most of them struggled because they followed their passion for Art instead of other professions that would have been paid for by their fathers. Even though each one was on a different journey, their path's soon meet up with ethe other, captured forever in a period of time we now know as Impressionism.
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